top of page
Crime and Justice News Archive
Welcome to the Crime and Justice News Archive. You can browse through all the recent posts, click on the tags below, or search the archive for something in particular!
Search
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...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 312 min read
144 views
Crime, Police Numbers Both Decline In L.A.; Is Department Right-Sized?
When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave pay raises to the city’s rank-and-file police officers last year, she sold it as a sensible...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 272 min read
63 views
How Baltimore Police Department Promotes Officer Health, Wellness
When a police officer engages in misconduct or excessive force, the behavior sometimes may stem from unaddressed stress and mental health...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 272 min read
54 views
NM Private Investigator Admits Bribery To Get DUIs Dismissed
A private investigator implicated in a corruption scandal that rocked New Mexico’s law enforcement community for over a decade was the...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 272 min read
78 views
Supreme Court To Hear Case Testing 'Moment of Threat' Doctrine
It took just seconds for a routine traffic stop on a Texas highway to escalate into a fatal shooting that left 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 212 min read
96 views
Police Kill 10,000 Pet Dogs Each Year, In Reported Rise Of 'Canicide'
What started as a typical December night for the Carr family in Georgia changed in an instant after two police officers showed up in...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 212 min read
122 views
DOJ, IL Sheriff Agree On Reforms After Deputy's Massey Killing
The U.S. Justice Department and a Illinois sheriff’s office resolved an inquiry into violations of federal anti-discrimination law in...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 182 min read
20 views
DOJ Accuses Louisiana State Police Of Using Excessive Force
The Louisiana State Police (LSP) for years has used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits, a statewide pattern of...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 172 min read
24 views
L.A. Officers Doing Fire Duty A New Climate Challenge For Police
Since the outbreak of the devastating fires, Los Angeles police officers accustomed to chasing 911 calls and patrolling city streets have...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 172 min read
63 views
Federal Prosecutors Won't Pursue Charges In Death Of Ronald Greene
Family members of Ronald Green, a Black motorist who was killed during a 2019 arrest in North Louisiana, were informed by federal...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 151 min read
18 views
New Orleans Police Department May Be Nearing End Of Long-Running Fedearl Consent Decree
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan placed the New Orleans Police Department under a two-year “sustainment” plan in their...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 151 min read
17 views
Police Use Facial Recognition For Arrests Without Other Evidence
After two men brutally assaulted a security guard on a desolate train platform in a St. Louis suburb, transit police detective Matthew...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 142 min read
224 views
Federal Judge Skeptical About Louisville Police Consent Decree
A federal judge on Monday expressed skepticism about the Justice Department’s proposed consent decree requiring Louisville to make broad...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 142 min read
45 views
Many MS Police Agencies Fail To Monitor Excessive Taser Use
Last summer, Carthage, Miss., police officer Blaine Musgrove approached Vivian Burks as she sat in her car reading the Bible. Musgrove...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 142 min read
54 views
How Policing Consent Decrees Have Succeeded In Five Cities
In announcing a settlement with Minneapolis for police reform, U.S. Department of Justice officials cited five other cities that have...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 103 min read
152 views
Nearly 5 Years After Floyd Died, Minneapolis Adopts Police Reform
More than 4½ years after the police killing of George Floyd triggered state and federal investigations and protests worldwide,...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 72 min read
53 views
Seattle Officer Who Struck, Killed Grad Student From India is Fired
Seattle’s interim police chief said Monday she has fired a police officer who in 2023 struck and killed a graduate student from India...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 72 min read
17 views
Antioch, CA, Police To Be Monitored By Feds After Racist Messages
The police department in the Northern California city of Antioch has agreed to be monitored by federal officials for five years after...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 62 min read
43 views
Ohio Law Allows Police To Charge For Body Camera Footage
Ohioans will likely have to pay hundreds of dollars to see police videos after Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill that includes a provision...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 62 min read
240 views
California Police Stop Black, Latino Drivers More Than Whites
California police officers stopped Black and Latino drivers and pedestrians at much higher rates than white people in 2023, repeating a...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 62 min read
23 views
bottom of page