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FBI will began tracking animal cruelty cases

From yesterday's Baltimore Sun: "The FBI will begin tracking cases of animal cruelty nationally in 2016, a move advocates hope will bring more attention to the crime among law enforcement agencies and underscore the link between animal abuse and other violent crimes. Until now, animal-related crimes have been reported…

Washington Post & New York Times pay attention to independent criminal justice researchers

Over the past two months, both the New York Times and the Washington Post published analyses of civilian deaths caused by police in 2015. The coverage of both newspapers credited and relies heavily on the work of independent researchers who have been compiling statistics on fatalities caused by police and…