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The FBI’s Crime Report in the United States shows that violent crimes had decreased 0.2 % since last year.
So what’s new this year with the report? The 2014 publication includes traditional UCR data from some federal agencies, and also FBI arrest data on human trafficking, criminal computer, and hate crimes.
Most people think slavery is a practice that ended with abolition laws. Yet, as Jasmin Gallardo shares, abolition laws focused on ending legal ownership, not on dismantling the economic structures that depended on exploitation. That gap created space for forced labor to reemerge in forms that were technically legal, harder to see, and easier to defend. The systems that drove slavery were never dismantled In many places, formerly enslaved people were
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