CT Ticket Scandal Draws Federal Scrutiny
As controversy brews over claims of ticket falsification by Connecticut State Police that skewed racial profiling data, federal...
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Jul 20, 20231 min read
Anatomy of a Police Interrogation Gone Wrong
A video described as "required viewing by every detective and every juvenile officer" depicts detectives in a Chicago suburb coercing a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
NYPD 2020 Riot Tactics Cost City $13m Settlement
New York City has agreed to one of the most expensive payouts ever in a lawsuit over mass arrests in a civil rights lawsuit brought by...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20232 min read
Cook County Do-Not-Call List Grows to 174 Cops
Since the Cook County, Il., state's attorney's office released a list of current and former law enforcement officers it whose damaged...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 17, 20231 min read
Chicago Police Oversight Office Probes Officer Gun Seizures
Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating how a group of officers recovered at least five guns, with one of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 26, 20232 min read
Chicago Cops Kept Jobs After Making False Statements
When former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot served on the Chicago Police Board, she summarized the city's approach to cops who give false...
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20232 min read
Post-Floyd Fallout Takes Toll on Black Mental Health
A nationwide poll finds that 44% of Black adults said it’s harder to get through daily tasks after learning of violence against Black...
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20231 min read
Police Crackdown on 2020 Protests Cost Cities $80M So Far
Three years after the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020 sparked the largest nationwide...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
Florida Gives Recruiting Bonuses to Questionable Police Hires
Likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, signed into law last year a policy he touted as the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
Deputy Unions Challenge L.A. Sheriff's Gang Tattoo Search
The unions for Los Angeles sheriffs' deputies are formally opposing the Sheriff's Department's demands that deputies show their tattoos...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20232 min read
Lieutenant's Retirement in Nichols Case Follows 'Standard Practice'
Less than a day before he was expected to be fired, Lt. Dewayne Smith, one of the Memphis officers on the scene of the beating of Tyre...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Report Decries London Police 'Boys' Club' Abuses
A damning new assessment of London's police force, documenting a "boys' club" culture that pervades the force, called for change in a...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 16, 20232 min read
NYPD Discipline Rejection Rate Way Up Under Sewell
In her first full year as commissioner of the New York Police Department, Keechant Sewell rejected more than half of the disciplinary...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Cleveland Police Strip Names from Internal Discipline Reports
Declaring that naming officers in reports of disciplinary actions is a form of public shaming that provides "little to no value,"...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Oakland Police Chief Fired Over Handling of Discipline Cases
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, the city's 10th chief in as many years, was fired by Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao nearly one month...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20232 min read
NY Police Records Law Falls Short After 2+ Years
More than two years after New York lawmakers repealed the state law that shielded police disciplinary records from public view, court...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Memphis Officers Charged Before 'Appalling' Video Released
One day before the release of a potentially incendiary video of the fatal beating of a man by Memphis police, and less than a week after...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 16, 20221 min read
DOJ Opens Another 'Pattern or Practice' Probe in MA
After years of complaints about brutality by a police department described by a federal judge as having "a culture of impunity," the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20222 min read
Dozens of Officers Accused of Misconduct Rehired by DC
Between 2015 and 2021, Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department was forced to rehire more than three dozen officers it had...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20221 min read
Cleveland PD Tightens Hiring Standards Over Racist Posts
"Frustrated and disappointed" that they couldn't discipline a police officer who posted antisemitic comments on social media before he...
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