Republicans Say Dems' Abandoning 'Defund Police' Won't Work at Polls
Democrats are looking to shake off the “defund the police” slogan, moving to be more visibly proactive in addressing rising crime rates...
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Feb 7, 20221 min read
Chicago Police Head Exaggerates Number of Gun Seizures
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown spoke at length last year about his department’s efforts to take illegal guns off the street....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Oregon Man Charged With Impersonating Federal Drug Agent
Last week, suspicions arose last week when a Portland, Or., police officer saw a man and woman standing near a Dodge Charger with red and...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 7, 20222 min read
NYC Mayor Adams, Ex-Police Officer, May Be Judged by Anticrime Policies
Just before he took office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn church for a memorial service honoring two police officers...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Ex-Police Officer Drew Peterson Gets Hearing In Wife-Killing Case
A decade after an Illinois jury convicted former police officer Drew Peterson of killing his third wife, the judge who sentenced him to...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Minneapolis Halts No-Knock Warrants After Locke Killing
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team aiding a homicide investigation...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20222 min read
Biden, Mayors Try to Combine Policing, Other Anticrime Tactics
President Biden, facing pressure to show he’s taking a tough approach to the rising murder rate, visited New York City’s police...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Body Cam Footage Released of MN Man's Killing by SWAT Team
Minneapolis police released body-camera footage showing a SWAT team officer shooting and killing a Black man, Amir Locke, reports the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20221 min read
NYC Police Official Tries Different Crime Prevention Approach
Classes had been dismissed at a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school when student Devonte Lewis stepped outside and two of his rivals opened fire,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20221 min read
L.A. May Limit Police 'Pretextual Stops' That Have Plagued Minorities
The Los Angeles Police Department may limit “pretextual stops” of motorists and pedestrians, arguing they aren’t effective and have...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Police Accountability Chicago Issue As Cop Who Killed Teen is Freed
Ex-Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is set to leave prison on Thursday after being locked up less than four years in the city that...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20221 min read
NAACP, Senators Ask Garland To Pursue Charges in McDonald Killing
The NAACP has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to move forward with federal charges against Jason Van Dyke, days before the former...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Louisiana Governor Denies Interference With Greene Probe
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards denied that he delayed or interfered with investigations into the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Gunman Arrested After Killing Two College Officers
A gunman shot and killed two security officers at a private college in Virginia on Tuesday, prompting a campus lockdown before the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Montana Officers Cleared In Killing Of Native American
At a day-long inquest Monday, a coroner’s jury found two Billings, Mt., police officers justified in a 2020 killing of a Chippewa Cree...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 1, 20221 min read
DOJ Charges NC Man in Explosive Device Case
The website for Tackleberry Solutions tells prospective customers that it “teaches wartime military tactics for home defense” and offers...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Omicron Surge Strains California Police Agencies
Since the Omicron surge began in December, some smaller law enforcement agencies have been forced to increase overtime, reduce services...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Jury Questioning To Begin in Only Breonna Taylor Criminal Case
Questioning of potential jurors begins Tuesday in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in a botched drug raid that...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 31, 20221 min read
LA Gov. Edwards Kept Quiet on Motorist's Death Until AP Reports
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in a red state, was in a difficult reelection campaign when he received a text message from...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 31, 20222 min read
Shootings of Police Officers Rising; 24 Incidents in January Alone
On Jan. 7, police officers in Farmington, N.M., responded to reports of a drunk driver. At a traffic stop, the suspect produced a gun and...
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