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President Trump brought big setbacks for juvenile justice, advocacy groups say — and although they like what they've heard from President-elect Joe Biden, some activists still worry about what they call an ongoing crisis.

Amid the frenzy of mail ballot counting and a flurry of legal challenges from the Trump campaign, Philadelphia voters last week overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure giving City Council the green light to create the Citizens Police Oversight Commission, an independent body supporters say has the potential to transform policing in the country’s sixth-largest city.

People suffering a mental illness make up nearly a quarter of all killed by police officers in America. Injuries, too, are common although they are less carefully tracked.

Six years after Ferguson, civil rights lawyers say there may be new connections developing between the courts and popular opinion on police.

Kyle Rittenhouse is wanted in Kenosha County for first-degree intentional homicide.

More white people may be killed by police annually, but Black Americans are killed at a far higher rate.