Top NYC Lawyer Out After Dispute Over Ex-Police Inspector Sex Case
New York City remains without a permanent top lawyer, a month after Mayor Eric Adams and his aides pushed out their corporation counsel,...
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Jul 52 min read
Illinois Police Stops Increase, Racial Disparities Continue
Illinois police agencies made more traffic stops in 2023 than they did the year before, says the state Department of Transportation....
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 51 min read
Cleveland Officer Of The Month Killed While Serving Warrant
A Cleveland police officer who was shot and killed Thursday while serving a felony warrant had been named Officer of the Month after he...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 33 min read
Does 'Predictive Policing' Replace Human Judgment With Algorithms?
Police departments in several large U.S. cities are experimenting with predictive policing, utilizing computer systems to analyze...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 32 min read
Civil Rights Lawyer Spurs DOJ Probe of Racist Policing in Mississippi
Handcuffed in the lobby of the Lexington, Miss., Police Department, Jill Collen Jefferson was given a choice after being arrested while...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21 min read
Minneapolis Policing Changes Slow 4 Years After George Floyd's Murder
Minneapolis officials and community leaders acknowledge that four years after George Floyd's murder, the city still has significant work...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12 min read
NY Probes Police Fatal Shooting Of Boy, 13, Holding Replica Gun
The New York attorney general is investigating the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy who officers say pointed a replica handgun...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 282 min read
NYPD Officers Use Force; Commissioner Buries Cases
Brianna Villafane was in Lower Manhattan protesting police violence in the summer of 2020 when one officer gripped her hair and yanked...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 271 min read
Grand Jury Indicts Four Officers From Disbanded Baton Rouge Street Crimes Unit
Four officers from a disbanded Street Crimes Unit of the Baton Rouge Police Department have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury, The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 262 min read
Case Files Raise Questions About GA Trooper's Killing Of Black Man
Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He didn’t stop...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 262 min read
Louisville Police Chief Resigns Over Handling Sex Harassment Charges
Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel resigned Tuesday, the mayor said, less than two weeks after she was placed on...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 241 min read
MA Jury Getting High-Profile Case Of Woman Accused Of Killing Cop
Over eight weeks, a jury in Massachusetts has heard evidence on whether Karen Read murdered her boyfriend, a police officer, in an act of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 192 min read
NYPD Complaints Surge Under Mayor Adams, Highest Since 2012
The New York City police department’s disciplinary issues are reaching a critical point in the third year of Mayor Eric Adams’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 192 min read
Philadelphia Nearly Tripling Police In Drug-Plagued Kensington Area
This week, Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood will see its police force nearly triple, adding 75 rookie officers straight from the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 182 min read
Ex-South Bend Cop To Lose Certification After Abuse Report
Indiana law enforcement officials are planning to revoke Timothy Barber’s police certification after a Washington Post investigation...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 172 min read
Minneapolis Police Victim Skeptical Of Coming Reform Plan
Jaleel Stallings, a ,27-year-old truck driver faced attempted-murder charges and possibly decades behind bars. The broken eye socket,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 132 min read
Louisville Chief Suspended Over Handling Of Sex Harassment Case
Louisville’s police chief has been placed on leave over her handling of a sexual harassment allegation involving her officers, Mayor...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 112 min read
Torture Case Against MS Deputies May Lead To Civil Rights Charges
Federal prosecutors are considering filing civil rights charges against the Rankin County, Miss., sheriff’s department over the torture...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 112 min read
Retired Cop, Epstein Cellmate Gets Life Sentence After 4 Murders
A retired police officer convicted of murdering four people, including a man he tortured and strangled over stolen drug money, was...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 101 min read
Vermont Police Agency Apologizes For Mock Shooting Behind Students
Police in Burlington, Vt., apologized after students were shaken up by a role-play robbery demonstration that included “a mock shooting.”...
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