Policing the Cops: Demonstrators marched again in New York and other cities last night amid calls for change in the attitude and tactics of policing in America. More than 200 were arrested in New York. From the streets to the White House and the Justice Department, there’s a push to remove racial profiling and violence from policing.

Only a day after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York cop in the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “The way we go about policing has to change.” Retraining would require all 22,000 of New York’s police officers to attend a three-day course. The training will focus in part simply on how cops talk to people.

And after a two-year investigation that found the Cleveland Police Department engaged in a “a pattern or practice of unreasonable and unnecessary use of force,” the Justice Department has forced the Cleveland cops into a federally-supervised consent decree to clean up their act. The reported cited excessive use of deadly force, retaliatory force, and excessive force against people who are mentally ill.

The announcement comes only two weeks after a Cleveland officer killed a 12-year-old boy waving a toy gun.

Econ 101: Employers added 321,000 jobs in November, the best improvement since January, 2012. Making the news better is that wages and working hours are inching up, giving the economic recovery more spine.

Nation: This year’s flu season could bring more cases than usual because the flu vaccine is not a great match for the strain that’s going around, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The vaccine is formulated every year in response to a prediction of the predominant strain of flu that will circulate. This year it’s off target. The CDC still advises people to get vaccinated.

To Mars, Alice: NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a fiery liftoff from Cape Canaveral in a test of what is designed to be a new age of space travel. Orion has technology and computers that were only a fantasy for the engineers of previous spacecraft. The craft is programmed to do two orbits of earth and splash down off California later this morning. Orion is made to carry four astronauts, ultimately as far as Mars. But first, a manned mission to the moon in 2020.

The Cosby Show: Comedian Bill Cosby has counter-sued a woman who says Cosby forced her to perform a sex act when she was just 15. The Cosby suit says Judith Huth’s lawyer essentially tried to extort $250,000 from the embattled Cosby before she sued him.

Disruption: The editor and literary editor of The New Republic magazine have quit in a showdown between old media and new. The 100-year-old magazine now owned by Facebook millionaire Chris Hughes is cutting its print editions from 20 to 10 each year and will become “a vertically integrated digital media company,” according to a company memo. Whatever that means. The staff is left to wonder where long and intelligent magazine articles will fit in the online journalism of “17 Cats Who Do Not Like Christmas,” and “63 Thoughts You Have When You Date Online.”

Big Screen: The Aston Martin sports car will be back in the 24^th James Bond film to be called “Spectre,” movie producers announced yesterday. It’s the sleek new Aston Martin Aston Martin DB10, designed for the movie. Weapons systems have not been disclosed. James Bond will be back, too, in the body of British actor Daniel Craig. Shaken, not stirred.

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