San Francisco OKs Police Surveillance Via Private Cameras
San Francisco city leaders approved a 15-month pilot that allows police to monitor live footage from surveillance cameras owned by...
Crime and Justice News Archive
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
'Integrity Bulletins' In 12 States Give Incomplete Police Misconduct Info
Providing public information about police misconduct records can be a messy process. There’s no federal database on misconduct, and most...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
$690,000 Settlement In Mississippi No-Knock Raid Death
A family seeking justice for the death of a Mississippi man killed during a no-knock raid by the Monroe County sheriff's department has...
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Crime and Justice News
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
California DOJ to Investigate After Deputies Fatally Shot Teen Girl
A new law requiring state intervention when a law enforcement officer fatally shoots an unarmed civilian was invoked after a police...
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Crime and Justice News
- 7 days ago
- 2 min
Police Chiefs Boost Signing Bonuses Amid Staffing Shortages
Police Chief Bill Schueller in Redding, Ca., increased signing bonuses to $7,500 from $5,000 to attract new recruits. It didn’t work, so...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 28
- 2 min
Police Seek Refuge At Maryland Mental Health Recovery Center
Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when he didn't get calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a...
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By Claire Cornelius
- Sep 27
- 2 min
Will Congress Help Cops De-Escalate Encounters With Mentally Ill?
In a Congressional session that has accomplished relatively little in the area of criminal justice reform, sponsors are hoping for the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 26
- 2 min
Chicago Encrypting Police Radio Traffic, Reducing Public Access
The days of Chicago reporters and news photographers relying on a live, crackling police scanner to chase news and tell the public what...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 23
- 1 min
Former Illinois Cop Charged With Second-Degree Murder
A former Illinois police officer responsible for shooting into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and injuring the man's...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 22
- 1 min
Philadelphia Officer Convicted in Black Motorist’s Death
A white Philadelphia police officer was convicted Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter and a weapons charge in the fatal shooting of an...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 22
- 1 min
Ex-Cop Gets 3-Year State Term For Role in George Floyd's Death
Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 22
- 2 min
House Democrats Agree On Funding Local Police, Raising Accountability
House Democrats agreed to vote on bills that provide millions of dollars to local law enforcement and also include accountability...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 21
- 1 min
San Diego Brawl Case To Test Law Enforcement Treatment of Antifa
On Jan. 9, 2021, three days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a mob of white supremacists, Proud Boys and other supporters of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Judge Frees Ex-KS Cop Pending Trial on Charges of Abusing Women
An ex-police detective from Kansas accused of preying on Black women and girls for decades will be released from jail, reports the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 20
- 2 min
DOJ Probes Kansas City Police Over Racial Bias Complaints
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation of employment practices at the Kansas City Police Department to determine if...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Insurers Dictating Policy Changes To Many Police Departments
A patrol officer in the St. Louis suburb of St. Ann spotted a minivan with an expired license plate, flipped on his lights and siren, and...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 15
- 1 min
New Orleans Advised To Assign More Patrol Officers To 'Save ...City'
A draft set of recommendations by police consultant Fausto Pichardo calls for the immediate redeployment of 212 New Orleans police...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 13
- 1 min
Judge Blocks AZ Law Restricting Video Recording of Police
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi halted enforcement of a new Arizona law that restricted citizens and journalists from filming police in...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 12
- 1 min
National Policing Institute Releases Protest Handling Guide
The National Policing Institute has released "21st Century Protest Response: Promoting Democracy and Advancing Community and Officer...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Conflict of Interest? St. Louis Cops Work For Private Policing Firm
St. Louis' largest private policing company is a who’s who of city police commanders, supervisors and lower-ranking officers., ProPublica...
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