This collaborative project is an extension of the 2016 End of Term project, intended to document the federal government's web presence by archiving government websites and data. As part of this preservation effort, URLs supplied from partner institutions, as well as nominated by the public, will be crawled regularly to provide an on-going view of federal agencies' web and social media presence. Key partners on this effort are the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative and the Data Refuge project. This collection is a continuation of the 2016 End of Term web archiving and, as such, is deduplicated against that collection. It allows for the ongoing archiving of publicly nominated websites beyond the "official" end of the End of Term project. 
 
 Interested members of the public, particularly government information specialists, are invited to submit selected web sites to be included in the collection using the public nomination tool. 
 
 For more information on partner institutions, web crawling and past End of Term projects, please visit the End of Term Archive. ||||| Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with a toy gun in just about any middle-class neighborhood in the country on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2014. 
 
 But Tamir, who was shot to death by a white police officer that day, had the misfortune of being black in a poor area of Cleveland, where the police have historically behaved as an occupying force that shoots first and asks questions later. To grow up black and male in such a place is to live a highly circumscribed life, hemmed in by forces that deny your humanity and conspire to kill you. 
 
 Those forces hovered over the proceedings on Monday when a grand jury declined to indict Officer Timothy Loehmann in the killing and Timothy McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, explained why he had asked the grand jurors to not bring charges. Mr. McGinty described the events leading up to Tamir’s death as tragic series of errors and “miscommunications” that began when a 911 caller said a male who was “probably a juvenile” was waving a “probably fake” gun at people in a park. 
 
 The fact that those caveats never reached Officer Loehmann — who shot the child within seconds of arriving on the scene — was more than just an administrative misstep. It reflects an utter disregard for the lives of the city’s black residents. That disregard pervades every aspect of this case and begins with the fact that the department failed to even review Officer Loehmann’s work history before giving him the power of life and death over the citizens of Cleveland. Had the department done so, it would have found that Officer Loehmann had quit a suburban police department where he had showed a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training and was found to be emotionally unfit for the stress of the job.
– "Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with a toy gun in just about any middle-class neighborhood in the country." That's the assertion put forth by the New York Times editorial board as it argues that the entire case swirling around the gunned-down Cleveland boy shows "utter disregard for the lives of the city's black residents." That disregard, per the editorial, took the form of everything from the 911 call's initial "miscommunications"—word that Tamir was probably carrying a fake gun never reached the officers—to the police department's failure to check out officer Timothy Loehmann's questionable work history, to the PD's own "well-documented reputation for wanton violence and for shooting at people who posed no threat to the police or others." The editorial cites a Justice Department report it says "shows clearly why the black community viewed the Cleveland police as dangerous and profoundly out of control." It also takes to task the officers' demeanor immediately after Tamir was shot (no medical assistance was given by Loehmann or his partner, Officer Frank Garmback) and the fact that Garmback tackled Tamir's 14-year-old sister when she tried to rush to her brother's side. And as for statements made by prosecutors that seem to place the fault for Tamir's death squarely on Tamir himself? "These arguments sidestep the history of violent, discriminatory police actions that led up to this boy’s death," says the editorial. Read it in full here. (A grand jury declined to indict either officer.)