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Details: Written by PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press; Published: 17 February 2016

SPLC Founder Morris Dees. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Year in Hate report tallies number of active hate groups at 892, up from 784 in 2014

Details: Written by DON BABWIN, Associated Press; Published: 15 February 2016

In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, former Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel speak in the City Council chambers in Chicago. For more than a year after officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed Laquan McDonald, the Chicago Police Department had video footage and autopsy results that raised serious questions about whether other officers on the scene tried in their reports to cover up what prosecutors now contend was murder. The lack of swift action against the officers illustrates the difficulty of confronting the “code of silence” that has long been associated with police in Chicago and elsewhere. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times via AP File)

Critics contend a code of silence keeps cops from disclosing abuses

Details: Written by REBECCA BOONE, MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press; Published: 11 February 2016

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, rancher Cliven Bundy stands along the road near his ranch in Bunkerville, Nev. Bundy, the father of the jailed leader of the Oregon refuge occupation, and who was the center of a standoff with federal officials in Nevada in 2014, was arrested in Portland on Wednesday, Feb. 10, the FBI said Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The last four occupiers of a national nature preserve surrendered and Cliven Bundy who organized a 2014 standoff was criminally charged in federal court