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What data can’t tell about the South’s vaccine rates – Scalawag

Almost as soon as the mainstream media deemed that “the unvaccinated can’t be persuaded,” declaring everyone who still hasn’t received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine a lost cause no longer worthy of our concern, the media narrative quickly shifted its Southern fixation away from our handling of the pandemic. The polarization and...

Murder clearance rates decline at most major police agencies

More than half of America’s major police departments are struggling to solve homicides at the same level of success they enjoyed a decade ago, according to a study of federal crime records by the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project. The study focused on the nation’s 160 police departments that investigate at least 10 homicides a year and that also faithfully...