Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend.
Wal-Mart is one of the largest corporations in the world, but its cost-cutting measures are causing security problems that go well beyond petty theft. According to this investigation, there is about one violent crime every day at one of the company's 4,500 locations across the country. (Bloomberg)
I rode along with police in Tulsa to find out about their biggest crime problem: Walmart https://t.co/Uh16ZS1zNY
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) August 17, 2016
Estimates suggest that between 1980 and 2012 nearly 1,200 indigenous women in Canada went missing or were murdered, though advocates say that understates the problem. This is the story of one of those women, and the factors that contribute to these types of crimes in Canada. (The Globe and Mail)
Reconstructing a life to find a missing mother. "That’s when I met Angeline." Powerful story by @wendy_stueckhttps://t.co/HiANCUIrmw#MMIW
— KathrynBlazeBaum (@KBlazeBaum) August 18, 2016
This election cycle has seen its fair share of finger-pointing about who is responsible for the rise of ISIS. The answer, of course, is multidimensional, but an intensive review of the record reveals how cost-cutting and other decisions by the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State aided in the militant group's rise. (ProPublica/Washington Post)
As #ISIS grew, #Clinton ’s State Department cut its eyes and ears in #Iraq under pressure from Congress, White House https://t.co/VWsev7OUfK
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) August 15, 2016
United States officials downplay the role of ground troops in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, in favor of a narrative that hinges on targeted airstrikes and drones. But this investigation found that U.S. commandos play a much larger role in the ground war than White House officials let on. (Buzzfeed)
Huge story: @mike_giglio gets inside the secret, ongoing war in Iraq that has US troops on the front lines today https://t.co/3Sr1fHCQDB
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) August 17, 2016
Making videos of police conduct and misconduct available to the public is critical to police accountability and transparency. California law allows police to keep such videos a secret, but ProPublica obtained two that document how Vachel Howard died after an incident in an LAPD jail. (ProPublica)
22 days. That's how long an LAPD officer was suspended for putting Vachel Howard in a chokehold. Howard died. https://t.co/DNu4TPALNz
— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) August 18, 2016
