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Memphis Calls Potential Police Decree 'Bureaucratic, Costly'
Officials in Memphis said that the city would not immediately agree to negotiate an overhaul of the Memphis Police Department with the...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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How Can States, Cities Help Achieve More Reform In Policing?
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to cut back or eliminate efforts to seek court-ordered reforms of local police departments after...
By Ted Gest
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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KS Ex-Cop Accused Of Assaulting Women Kills Self Before Trial
A federal judge dismissed the case against former Kansas City, Kan., police officer Roger Golubski after prosecutors confirmed Golubski...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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Ex-D.C. Officer On Trial For Warning Proud Boys Leader Of His Arrest
A former Washington, D.C., police lieutenant goes on trial Monday on charges that he improperly warned Proud Boys leader Henry...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 2, 20242 min read
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IL Court Orders Pretrial Release Of Deputy Who Killed Woman In Home
An Illinois appeals court ruled that a former deputy sheriff charged with the death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman shot in her home after...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 30, 20241 min read
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Two Justices Say High Court Should Hear Case On SWAT Team Damage
The Supreme Court declined to weigh in on an appellate court ruling that rejected damages for woman whose home in a Dallas suburb was...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 26, 20242 min read
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D.C. Sues Anti-Police Leader Anderson For Misspending Gifts
The District of Columbia’s attorney general sued an activist known for his calls to abolish the police, saying that he diverted $75,000...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Las Vegas Homeowner Calls 911 For Help, Is Killed By Officer
A Las Vegas man called for police help during a home invasion before an officer fatally shot him. Brandon Durham called 911 on Nov. 12,...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20241 min read
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NM City Settles Police Officer Wrongful Death Suit For $20M
The estate of Teresa Gomez and the City of Las Cruces, N.M., agreed to a $20 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit over her...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Can Jessica Tisch Solve NYPD's 'Phenomenal Problems'?
Jessica Tisch will confront a crushing list of problems when she returns to head the New York Police Department next week . Officers,...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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DOJ Charges Trenton Police With Misconduct, Seeks Consent Decree
The Justice Department said a 13-month civil rights investigation found that the police force in Trenton, N.J., engaged in systemic...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Chicago Barely Makes Progress On Court-Ordered Police Reforms
In the five and a half years since the Chicago Police Department agreed to oversight from a federal judge, there have been bursts of...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20241 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20241 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 17, 20241 min read
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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....
Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20242 min read
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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,...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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