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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....
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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,...
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Nov 11, 20242 min read
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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 11, 20241 min read
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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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Nov 9, 20241 min read
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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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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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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 5, 20242 min read
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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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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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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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Nov 2, 20241 min read
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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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Nov 2, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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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 28, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Akron To Pay Walker Family $4.8M In Traffic Stop Death Case
The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out...
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Oct 22, 20242 min read
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Detroit Chief White To Head Health Group; Crime Fell During His Tenure
Detroit Police Chief James White has been named president of the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, the largest of Michigan’s...
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Oct 22, 20242 min read
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As IACP Opens, Serpas Calls For 'Honest Picture Of Policing'
At the opening ceremony of the International Association of Chiefs of Police 2024 conference in Boston, Ron Serpas a past Honorary...
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Oct 21, 20242 min read
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Police Officer-Substitute Teacher Banned For Reenacting Floyd Death
Steven Williams, a police officer in Prescott, Wi., is on leave after a Minnesota school district banned him as a substitute high school...
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Oct 20, 20241 min read
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Video Shows Phoenix Police Punching And Tasing Deaf Man With Cerebral Palsy During Arrest
The arrest of a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy, who was repeatedly punched and Tased by a pair of Phoenix police officers in August...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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LAPD Cop Lawsuit Highlights Sexism In Department
Even as a young street cop trying to work her way up the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department in the mid-90s, Kristine Klotz was...
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Oct 15, 20242 min read
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