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City of broad strictures

Chicago's grit is the stuff of legend. The city's hardscrabble history conjures images of wind-beaten dock hands; rugged immigrants working punishing factory jobs; and 500 acres of slaughterhouses and their...
A Ferguson, Mo., police officer monitors protesters from an armored vehicle after Michael Brown's slaying. Backers of police militarization say it has coincided with a big drop in crime, but criminologists aren't sure what caused the drop.

5 myths about policing

America's police forces are in the spotlight. After the police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as this past week's...
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Chicago, city of broad strictures

Chicago's grit is the stuff of legend. The city's hard-scrabble history conjures images of wind-beaten dock hands; rugged immigrants working punishing factory jobs; and 500 acres of slaughterhouses and their...