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Crime and Justice News

Nov 142 min read

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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Crime and Justice News

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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Since 2020, Police Transparency Fight Turned 'Messy'

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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