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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Willie horton | History Defined

Trump cleans up DC while governors tell residents ‘criminals come first’ – 1988 redux coming

Guess we're finding out what happens when a president decides he's also the police chief.

We Got This Covered

Playing the Harris race card backfires

The attempts to disqualify the vice president reek of desperation

Salon

Attack, attack, attack

Trump is trying to set an immigration trap

Salon

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US politics is awash with crude and misleading attack ads. Now it’s the UK’s turn

Rules governing political campaigning on terrestrial television don’t apply to streaming or online – and parties are starting to play dirty, says journalist and author Jonn Elledge

The Guardian - UK

Incite, smear, divide: why are the Tories and Labour copying the tactics of America’s vilest strategist?

Lee Atwater was master of attack and dog-whistle politics. We should be alive to his methods and their effects – not emulating them, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

Revived Trump probe puts Manhattan DA back in spotlight

After a challenging first year in office, Manhattan's district attorney is back in the spotlight with a reinvigorated investigation of former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Democrats try to flip narrative amid barrage of ‘soft on crime’ attack ads

GOP ramping up spending for grisly, racist ads that cast Democrats as ‘dangerously liberal’ with crime emerging as top concern among voters

The Guardian - US

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US politics’ post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of hate

Far from entering the midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, the Republican party has shown itself to be the opposite

The Guardian - US

Will Bunch: Racist 'Willie Horton'-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP

When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Republicans’ lawless leaders at odds with midterm law and order message

Republicans running in next month’s elections cast their party as tough on crime, despite top party names’ legal scrapes

The Guardian - US

LA DA Gascon’s policies may have led to reduced prison time for man who killed El Monte cops

LOS ANGELES — The man who shot and killed two El Monte police officers Tuesday could have faced significantly more years in prison when he was last charged with a crime. But one of District Attorney George Gascon’s most heavily criticized policies may have led to a significantly lower sentence,…

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