DOJ Case Against Louisville Police Expected To Take Years
The settlement in principle to negotiate a policing consent decree announced Wednesday between the U.S. Department of Justice and the...
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- Mar 9
- 2 min
Judge Halts Release Of More Tyre Nichols Beating Death Footage
The release of 20 more hours of video and audio recordings of the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers in January has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Police Departments Try To Repair Relations With LGBTQ Community
As anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, laws and violence surge across the U.S., more police departments have appointed liaisons in an attempt to repair...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 8
- 1 min
DOJ Accuses Louisville Police Of Civil Rights, Excessive Force Abuses
The Louisville Metro Police Department engaged in systemic civil rights abuses and excessive-force misconduct in the years leading up to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Justice Department Investigating Memphis Police After Nichols Death
The Justice Department is launching an examination of the Memphis Police Department’s use of force policies and practices, adding a new...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 8
- 2 min
CA Jury Awards $8M To Family Detained By Deputy On Trip
Aasylei Loggervale and her two teenage daughters had been driving all night to California’s Berkeley City College for the older daughter...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Disputed Atlanta 'Cop City' Would Be Built On 'Old Prison Farm'
The clash over plans to build a police training center on a large tract of land near Atlanta has brought at least one death, a state of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 6
- 2 min
35 Detained After Anti-Police Violence At Atlanta 'Cop City'
More than a hundred protesters dressed in black breached a proposed police and fire training center site in Atlanta on Sunday, burning...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Limits to 911 Responses Proposed by L.A. Police Union
The Los Angeles Police Department’s rank-and-file union is proposing that someone other than police respond to more than two dozen types...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Brown Leaving Chicago Police, Mayor Hopefuls Will Name Insider
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown is stepping down after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s loss in Tuesday’s election. All eight of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 1
- 2 min
NYC To Pay Up To $6M To Protesters 'Kettled' By Police After Floyd Death
New York City agreed to pay $21,500 to each of hundreds of demonstrators who were penned in by police in the Bronx during racial justice...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Court Says Man Holding 'Cops Ahead' Sign May Sue Over Arrest
A Connecticut man arrested after he stood ahead of a police checkpoint with a “Cops Ahead” sign can sue the city of Stamford for First...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 27
- 3 min
As Murdaugh Trial Winds Down, Will Jury Believe He Distrusted Police?
Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh had such a cozy relationship with law enforcement that he put blue lights in his car with...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 22
- 2 min
After Years Of Debate, Fort Worth Police Chief Creates Advisory Panel
The Fort Worth, Tx., police chief proposed a version of a civilian oversight board that some city leaders and activists say lacks the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Family Of CO Man Fatally Shot Sues Over Death At School Pick-Up Line
The family of an unarmed Colorado man who was fatally shot by police in a middle school pick-up line filed a federal civil rights...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Jackson Police and Courts Takeover Falls Along Racial Divide
Jackson is Mississippi's capital, and its largest city. It is more than 80 percent Black, as are most of its elected leaders, judges and...