6 Attack Congress Agrees On New Model for Handling Sexual Assault in Military States are Criminalizing Protest, Warns BLM Activist Emmett Till Investigation Closed With No Charges Meadows, Stone Reverse Decision to Testify on Jan. Police critics argue that there is no staffing shortage within the police department, and that officers should focus on the most serious crimes instead of traumatizing residents, especially Black people. Policing Facing Crime Surge and Staffing Shortage, Oakland Drops Defunding Plan Meanwhile, a claim by Oklahoma tribal authorities that a recent High Court judgment gives them authority to ban capital punishment for Indigenous people is picking up traction across Indian Country. The justices will hear arguments on an Arizona case that could affect death row inmates attempting to prove their innocence. Capital Punishment Death Penalty Faces Legal Tests in Arizona, Oklahoma Supervised injection sites for illegal drug users, recently rolled out for the first time in New York City, are a smart and compassionate approach that have already been tested in other countries and will save lives where tough-on-drug policies have failed, says the Washington Post. Drugs Will Supervised Injection Sites Succeed Where War on Drugs Has Failed? Those who are overdosing from fentanyl have a shorter window of time to be saved and may need additional doses of the easy-to-use medication that reverses overdoses. Narcan developer Roger Crystal says overdoses may be increasingly difficult to battle in the US. Drugs Narcan Developer Warns Fentanyl Deaths Will Rise Allison Dwyer Emory, an assistant professor of sociology in the University of Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, adds to evidence that trying to address discrimination on the basis of criminal records without addressing parallel race-based discrimination typically fails to fix either problem. Reforming the System Study: States Restricting Criminal Records-Based Discrimination Do More Harm Than Good