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This week’s FOIA round-up: Records reveal a history of abuse among Chicago Police Department trainers and confirm neglect led to Indiana inmate's death

This week’s FOIA round-up: Records reveal a history of abuse among Chicago Police Department trainers and confirm neglect led to Indiana inmate’s death

For this week’s FOIA round-up, documents reveal most of the officers in “implicit bias” training are accused of same abuses the program is attempting to prevent, a request confirms claims that neglect lead to the death of an Indiana inmate, and a record from Elizabeth Warren’s past resurfaces through the Texas Public Information Act.

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Homeland Security won't name which state and local police departments received federal training

Homeland Security won’t name which state and local police departments received federal training

A request was intended to uncover which local and state law enforcement agencies were using federal training centers produced a long list of course offerings - and a long black bar where the agencies’ names should be.

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Infamous law enforcement trainer Dave Grossman is bringing "Killology" to hospitals and high schools

Infamous law enforcement trainer Dave Grossman is bringing “Killology” to hospitals and high schools

Over the course of the last twenty years, retired Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman has risen to become the go-to expert for US law enforcement, traveling across the country giving seminars to police and sheriff’s deputies through his incredibly-named Killology Research Group. Records regarding one such training show Grossman’s interest in branching out, bringing “the Bulletproof Mind” to hospitals and high schools.

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