USA Today (July 7)
Recent shooting deaths of minorities by police, most recently in Minneapolis, have highlighted the need for significant reforms and better policing. “With a lack of national standards among our nation’s estimated 17,000 police agencies, individual officer and organizational competencies range from outstanding to notoriously bad. There is far too much variation and lack of agreement on what constitutes ‘good’ policing.”
Tags: Deaths, Minneapolis, Minorities, National standards, Officers, Police, Policing, Reforms, Shooting, U.S.
Washington Post (May 18)
“America’s complexion is changing, literally.” Unlike Japan and many European countries, America’s population has continued to grow, largely thanks to immigrants. As a result, “minorities now account for more than half the babies born in America, a milestone in the path toward what demographers forecast will be an overall majority-minority population in 30 years.”
Tags: Demographics, Europe, Immigration, Japan, Minorities, Population, U.S.
