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...charitable organization Save the Children UK effectively blew the whistle on itself and other aid organizations on Tuesday by publishing findings that a number of aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers engage in sexual abuse of some of the world's most vulnerable children. Hundreds of cases of sexual misconduct with children ranging in age from six to 17 were reported in disaster and war-torn regions around the world. And according to the report, a far greater number of cases go unreported...
...Sexual misconduct accusations were leveled against employees of 23 international aid organizations, including Save the Children, the United Nations and the World Food Programme. The U.N. alone reported 371 cases of sexual abuse in 2006, sparking increased internal protocols, including field discipline teams, increased training and telephone reporting hotlines...
...Weis is the first outsider in four decades to run Chicago's 13,500-officer police department - and the move won Daley praise from some of his usual critics. However, police officers are skeptical of Weis, mainly because it is the FBI that frequently investigates alleged police misconduct...
...everyone is sold, of course. "That paramilitary-style policing has proven not just ineffective, but also has led to greater instances of brutality," contends Craig B. Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who co-wrote the analysis of the CPD's handling of misconduct allegations. With the CPD's largely white officers saturating black and Latino neighborhoods, Futterman warns, "it's going to be like an outsider-occupied territory...
...Guinean immigrant who was also unarmed when cops opened fire on him. Since then, civil rights activists concerned about a compromised relationship between the local district attorney's office and the police department have called for special prosecutors to be used instead to handle such sensitive cases of police misconduct...