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6 days ago2 min read
LAPD Using Social Media Surveillance Firm To Track Protests
One week after Hamas’s October 7 attack, thousands rallied outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the retaliatory...
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Crime and Justice News
7 days ago2 min read
Activists: Milwaukee Needs More Police Oversight After Officer Arrest
Activists in Milwaukee are calling for more community control of police as the public learns about a Milwaukee Police Department officer...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 161 min read
MO Officer Not Charged For Killing Woman, Three-Month-Old Child
A prosecutor declined to file charges against a Missouri police officer who shot and killed a woman and her infant child last year....
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 142 min read
Chicago Clearance Rate In Non-Fatal Shootings Is A Tiny 6 Percent
Tom Wagner was working as a rideshare driver when he was shot during a Chicago carjacking in 2021. The shooting left a jagged scar across...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 122 min read
What's Next For Police Reform Under Trump's DOJ?
President Joe Biden made it a priority for his Justice Department to investigate local police agencies with troubled records, including...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 122 min read
Alabama City Suspends Entire Police Force After Indictments
A city in Alabama has decided to let go and then rebuild its entire police force, including by appointing a new police chief, weeks after...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 102 min read
St. Louis Police Department Faces Return To State Control
Missouri took control of the St. Louis police department before the start of the Civil War to prevent the city from rising up against...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 72 min read
Policing Project Lays Out Proposed Standards for Use of Robots, Drones
Despite the growing use of drones and robots in police work, most police departments lack policies and standards regulating acceptable...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 272 min read
Police Killings Of Civilians Continue To Rise, Especially In Southwest
The number of people killed by police officers rose slightly in 2024, marking the smallest increase recorded in years, says a report by...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 242 min read
Conservative Panel Speaker Touts Mental Health Experts Helping Cops
A criminal justice discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, D.C., included the idea of using...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 212 min read
Ex-Colorado Deputy Convicted In Shooting Death Of 22-Year-Old
A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 212 min read
Trump Deletes Database Of Federal Police Officer Misconduct
The first national database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Trump, deleting a resource...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 182 min read
29 Police Recruits Around U.S. Died In Training Over A Decade
Ronald Donat’s dream of becoming a police officer was in jeopardy. The 41-year-old struggled to stand after completing a flurry of...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 151 min read
TN City Will Pay $28M To Women Who Say Police Botched Probe
Johnson City, Tenn., agreed to pay $28 million to settle a federal lawsuit that said police deliberately botched investigations into a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 112 min read
NYPD Apologizes For Mistakenly Accusing Teen Of Parade Shooting
The New York City police department apologized for mistakenly accusing a teenager of a fatal shooting at a Brooklyn parade, then failing...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 72 min read
How Supreme Court Gun Ruling Has Changed Policing Practices
Two and a half years ago, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that experts said would upend the nation's gun laws. New York State...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 52 min read
Many NYC Police Officers Quit Amid Crackdown On High Overtime
The New York Police Department’s big spending on overtime — more than $1 billion last fiscal year — has been lucrative for some, but...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 51 min read
Judge Blocks LA Law Allowing Arrests Within 25 Feet Of Police
A federal judge blocked a Louisiana law that allows police to arrest people who come within 25 feet of an on-duty law enforcement...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 32 min read
Minneapolis To Pay $600K For Chauvin's Pinning Driver To Ground
The city of Minneapolis will pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who alleged that ex-police officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 312 min read
Trump Plans To Deputize Local Police To Help Deportation Plan
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for state and local law enforcement officers to participate in mass deportation...
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