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Job seekers check out companies at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Emergency vehicles attend the scene of a major accident on the Sheppey Bridge Crossing near Sheerness in Kent, south England, following a multi-vehicle collision earlier Thursday morning, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller, PA)

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Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times "Every member of [the fire department] is held to a standard of performance, and those standards are universal," says Paul Quander, the District's deputy mayor for public safety and justice.

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Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria where they testified. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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New Jersey employs a system called Public Safety Assessment to help judge's determine which defendants should be granted bail. Advocates say the algorithm PSA depends on eliminates racial bias from the process. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** 25th Judicial District Attorney Heather McMinn, left, and Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon appear at a news conference in Halletsville, Texas on June 19, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In a Jan. 26, 2005, file photo, visitors walk under the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" — Work Makes (You) Free — sign at the entrance gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland. The special prosecutors' office that investigates Nazi war crimes said Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013, it is recommending charges against dozens of alleged former Auschwitz guards, opening the possibility of a new wave of trials almost 70 years after the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski/file)