CO Police Advocates Seek End Run Around Immunity Law
Colorado's sweeping police reforms passed in 2020 stripped the state's law enforcement officers of qualified immunity. Since then, police...
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Jul 28, 20232 min read
All Crimes Policing Squad Combats Crime in Indianapolis
The Indiana State Police have implemented a new specialized approach to combat crime in the Indianapolis and Marion County areas. After a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Chicago Consent Decree Gets Failing Grade from Critic
The federal consent decree with the Chicago Police Department for the past four years has had little effect on police conduct or public...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
Chicago Police Fire Training Vendor with Ties to Past Superintendent
Training is at the heart of the federal consent decree mandating sweeping police reforms in Chicago in the wake of the police killing of...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Book Tells How Three Chiefs Changed 'Cop Culture'
Although polls suggest most Americans favor police reform, fewer than one-third say they’re optimistic about making progress....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 20, 20232 min read
LAPD's City Council Critics Ducked Chance to Block Chief's 2nd Term
The deadline for Los Angeles City Council to try to block the reappointment of Police Chief Michel Moore came and went without a peep...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Nichols Case Sparks New Round of Debate, Demonstrations
Fallout from the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers continued on multiple fronts, as the Memphis Police...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Columnist: Why Police Reform Protesters Lost Their Way
News commentators have wondered lately, as one Slate article put it, "what happened to the national outrage over police killings?" Conor...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Since 2020, Police Transparency Fight Turned 'Messy'
By Kate Heston, Brooke Newman and Kyra O’Connor News21 ARLINGTON, Texas – It was 1:16 a.m. when Trena Miller and her wife heard a knock...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 2, 20221 min read
Chicago PD Struggles to Improve Community Relations
Surveys of Black and Latino men in Chicago paint a "bleak picture of the relationship" they have with Chicago police, despite the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 31, 20221 min read
How Minneapolis Police 'Defunded' and Drained the City
After George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis, there was large outcry to defund the Minneapolis Police Department....
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 29, 20222 min read
A Plan for Police 'Renewal and Redemption'
The current shortage of willing recruits to policing seems an odd time to impose much higher standards on new policing hiring, but that...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 29, 20222 min read
Twin Cities' Chief Searches Pose Question: Insider or No?
Simultaneous searches for police chiefs in Minnesota's two largest cities pose many of the same questions about public safety and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20222 min read
How Moderates Used Attacks on 'Defunding Police' To Win Key Posts
On November 3, progressives in Boston were celebrating because voters elected Michelle Wu, to the mayor’s office. That celebration,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Post-Floyd Reforms in 2021 a Mixed Bag
In the first full year of state lawmaking since the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the ensuing massive...
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