NYC Sanitation Head Jessica Tisch Named To Run Police Department
New York Mayor Eric Adams named Jessica Tisch, the sanitation commissioner, to head the New York Police Department, the nation's largest...
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Nearly $100M Awarded To Family of Man Killed By Dallas Officer
The family of a man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own was awarded nearly $100...
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3 days ago1 min read
MO Cops Steal Women’s Phones, Take Nude Images At Traffic Stops
A former Missouri police officer and a former Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper have been indicted separately on federal charges...
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3 days ago1 min read
Police Have Killed At Least 1,151 Civilians In U.S. This Year
Law Enforcement officers in the U,S. have killed at least 1,151 people this year, 31 more than in 2023, through October, reports the...
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3 days ago2 min read
Critics Say New WA State Agency Slow To Probe Police Violence
In 2021, Washington state lawmakers created the nation’s first state-funded office to investigate killings by police officers, providing...
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5 days ago1 min read
DOJ Seeks Records On IL Sheriff Deputy's Killing Of Black Woman
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking records on the shooting of an Illinois woman who was killed in her home by a sheriff’s deputy as...
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6 days ago2 min read
New LAPD Chief: Good Stats Don't Tell the Whole Story
Newly sworn-in Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell is concerned that the city's rosy crime statistics don't tell the full story....
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 112 min read
Even As He Is Probed, Acting NYC Police Head Donlon Hopes To Stay
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s decision to appoint Thomas Donlon, a 71-year-old former FBI agent, as interim police commissioner,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 111 min read
Dallas Faces Challenge In Hiring 900 More Cops Under Ballot Measure
Proposition U, which narrowly passed last week with 50.5% support from Dallas voters, includes a city charter mandate that Dallas...
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Nov 91 min read
New L.A. Police Chief McDonnell To Be Paid $450K, Less Than Proposed
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell, who was sworn in as Los Angeles police chief on Friday, will draw one of the nation's...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 52 min read
New LAPD Chief May Be Paid More Than U.S. President
Jim McDonnell, the incoming Los Angeles Police Department chief, stands to get paid more than L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, the leaders of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 52 min read
Ex-Columbus Officer Convicted Of Murder For Killing Black Man
A former Columbus, Oh.., police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill a Black man who was holding a...
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Nov 42 min read
Ohio Cops Charged With Reckless Homicide After Man in Custody Dies
Prosecutors in Ohio announced reckless homicide charges against two police officers in the death of a man who was handcuffed and left...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 21 min read
Police Force In Oklahoma Town Resigns Without Explanation
The police chief and three officers that comprised the entire four-person police department of the town of Geary, Okla., and two of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22 min read
Ex-Louisville Officer Found Guilty In Breonna Taylor Death
A federal jury convicted a former Louisville police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched drug raid that...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 292 min read
No Settlements In 12 DOJ Police Cases; Trump Could End Them
The U.S. Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into civil rights abuses by police departments since President Biden took...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 292 min read
Deal Allows LA Trooper In Motorist's Beating Death To Avoid Prison
A former Louisiana state trooper who faced felony charges in the 2019 death of a Black man who was beaten while in police custody pleaded...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 292 min read
Tyre Nichols' Mother Says Family Got 'A Piece Of Justice'
As Tyre Nichols lay unresponsive in intensive care after he was beaten by Memphis police in January 2023, his mother, RowVaughn Wells,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 282 min read
Would Trump Try Federal Takeover Of Washington, D.C., Police?
In 2020, amid massive demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd, President Trump hinted at a plan he had been privately...
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Oct 242 min read
Chicago Traffic Stops Double, Targeting Minorities
Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil...
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