*'It's not about bad apples': how US police reforms have failed to stop brutality and violence.*

Policies prove ineffective because thugs make excuses to disregard them. Body cameras prove ineffective because the system usually fails to punish thugs for the observed wrongs.

The New York Thug Department proposes to shuffle personnel and calls it a "seismic shift".

New Mexicans are removing statues of Juan de Oñate, a Spanish colonial leader of Biblical cruelty.

Oñate killed around 1000 people of Acoma after a dispute, then amputated a foot from many of the captured survivors.

Republican donors are supporting plutocratist Democrat Eliot Engel against a progressive primary challenge.

Two black men died in California in what looked like suicides, but there are reasons to suspect white supremacists murdered them.

A discussion over renaming US Army bases named after confederate officers includes an illuminating disagreement between a whites vs whites perspective and a freedom vs slavery perspective.