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Documenting Officer-Involved Shootings
The FBI says police kill about 500 people a year in the United States. Two newspapers report it's at least twice that many. The truth is that nobody knows. Do we need new rules to establish accountability?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenThe FBI says police kill about 500 people a year in the United States. Two newspapers report it's at least twice that many. The truth is that nobody knows. Do we need new rules to establish accountability?
Also,new Snowden documents show that NSA widened its spying on hackers. On today's Talking Point, Russia's massive disinformation campaign for American audiences.
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3 storiesNew Snowden Docs Show NSA Widened Its Spying on Hackers
After weeks of political wrangling, the USA Freedom Act was enacted to limit domestic spying by the National Security Agency. Now it turns out that the Obama Administration has expanded the NSA's surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic — without public notice or any debate.
Read the story7 minLaw Enforcement: Some Unanswered Questions
How many Americans are killed by police every year? Who are they? Are the incidents justified? Nobody knows the answers to those questions. Some 18,000 law enforcement agencies are asked to report to the FBI, but it’s voluntary. They don’t have to if they don’t want to, and different agencies use different standards to measure performance.
Read the story33 minRussian "Trolls" Wreak Havoc All around the Internet
Details of a chemical disaster and an Ebola epidemic were just some of the alarming reports that turned up last year on American social media and news sites — all part of a highly sophisticated disinformation campaign originating in Russia.
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