Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.Black Lives Matter (BLM) began when Oakland, Calif.–based activist Alicia Garza posted a message of protest on Facebook after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer who followed and fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was acquitted of murder in...…Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.Black Lives Matter (BLM) began when Oakland, Calif.–based activist Alicia Garza posted a message of protest on Facebook after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer who followed and fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was acquitted of murder in...WW…

Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Now, a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.Black Lives Matter (BLM) began when Oakland-based activist Alicia Garza posted a message of protest on Facebook after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer who followed and fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was acquitted of murder in...…Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Now, a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.Black Lives Matter (BLM) began when Oakland-based activist Alicia Garza posted a message of protest on Facebook after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer who followed and fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was acquitted of murder in...WW…

White police officers in Chicago are far more likely than their Black counterparts to stop, arrest or use force against Black civilians, and the disparity is more pronounced in the city's highly segregated majority-Black neighborhoods, according to a study published in February 2020 in Science. The study's authors say the findings suggest more diversification in hiring could lead to reform, but some social scientists and activists disagree. The city has had diversity programs in place since the 1960s.The researchers compiled data from 2012 to 2015 on Chicago Police Department (CPD)...…White police officers in Chicago are far more likely than their Black counterparts to stop, arrest or use force against Black civilians, and the disparity is more pronounced in the city's highly segregated majority-Black neighborhoods, according to a study published in February 2020 in Science. The study's authors say the findings suggest more diversification in hiring could lead to reform, but some social scientists and activists disagree. The city has had diversity programs in place since the 1960s.The researchers compiled data from 2012 to 2015 on Chicago Police Department (CPD)...WW…

Since taking office on January 20, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have signaled a clear commitment to science and pledged sweeping initiatives to reestablish and elevate its role in the federal government. President Biden immediately nominated scientists to some key positions and began implementing an ambitious agenda to revitalize the nation’s climate-change-mitigation efforts and get the coronavirus pandemic under control.“This is such a hopeful moment,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy director of the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists....…Since taking office on January 20, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have signaled a clear commitment to science and pledged sweeping initiatives to reestablish and elevate its role in the federal government. President Biden immediately nominated scientists to some key positions and began implementing an ambitious agenda to revitalize the nation’s climate-change-mitigation efforts and get the coronavirus pandemic under control.“This is such a hopeful moment,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy director of the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists....WW…

The U.S.’s takes effect today, capping four years of President Donald Trump aggressively rolling back the Obama administration’s climate-change-mitigation policies. The acceleration of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions on Trump’s watch has been blunted by state- and city-level efforts, a burgeoning renewable energy market and the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic downturn. But the Trump-era rollbacks could still ultimately lead to more heat-trapping carbon entering the atmosphere over the next decade or more.The U.S.’s position contrasts starkly with that of much of the rest of the world....…The U.S.’s takes effect today, capping four years of President Donald Trump aggressively rolling back the Obama administration’s climate-change-mitigation policies. The acceleration of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions on Trump’s watch has been blunted by state- and city-level efforts, a burgeoning renewable energy market and the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic downturn. But the Trump-era rollbacks could still ultimately lead to more heat-trapping carbon entering the atmosphere over the next decade or more.The U.S.’s position contrasts starkly with that of much of the rest of the world....WW…

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶A proposed bill would look into fifty strangulation cases in the South and West SidesClose to 500 Local School Councils in Chicago Public Schools held their elections this past NovemberPlagued by memories of past school closings, they organized against a plan to consolidate three schoolsHow CPD used the City’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor demonstrations last summerDuring George Floyd protests, city investigators came to the school after it ordered pizzas for activistsA proposed bill would look into fifty strangulation cases in the South and West SidesClose to 500 Local...…✶ ✶ ✶ ✶A proposed bill would look into fifty strangulation cases in the South and West SidesClose to 500 Local School Councils in Chicago Public Schools held their elections this past NovemberPlagued by memories of past school closings, they organized against a plan to consolidate three schoolsHow CPD used the City’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor demonstrations last summerDuring George Floyd protests, city investigators came to the school after it ordered pizzas for activistsA proposed bill would look into fifty strangulation cases in the South and West SidesClose to 500 Local...WW…