Jury Tells New Orleans To Pay Teen $1M For Assault By Police Officer
A federal jury ordered the city of New Orleans to pay $1 million to a teenager who was sexually assaulted by a police officer in 2020, ...
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Aug 232 min read
New Jersey Reforms Police Use of Force Policy After Fatal Incident
Weeks after the shooting of 25-year-old Victoria Lee in her apartment by a Fort Lee, N.J., police officer, shortly after a 911 call for...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 203 min read
The Problem Of 'Wandering Cops' After Misconduct Persists
One reform growing out of the murder of George Floyd in 2020 was that recalcitrant states with strong police unions passed...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 202 min read
After 19 Years, Ohio Murder Suspect Found in Mexico As Police Officer
A man wanted in a murder case for nearly two decades was discovered working as a police officer in Mexico. U.S. marshals took custody of...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 202 min read
LAPD Gang Officers Face Firing Over Illegal Searches, Thefts
A year after Los Angeles police officers from an anti-gang unit in the San Fernando Valley were accused of illegally searching vehicles...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 192 min read
Killings By Police Could Reach Record Total Over A Decade
Two officers 400 miles apart claimed self-defense after they were indicted in the murders of two Black women, killings that prompted a...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 192 min read
Georgia Deputy Killed Responding to Domestic Violence Call
A sheriff's deputy described as a hero was shot and killed Saturday while responding to a domestic dispute in northwestern Georgia....
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 182 min read
Phoenix Launches Website With 'The Facts' On Police Accusations
The city of Phoenix and its police force launched a website in response to a scathing U.S. Justice Department report outlining a pattern...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 161 min read
Ex-AL Cop Admits Planting Drugs On Motorists To Make 'Sham' Arrests
A former Alabama police officer will plead guilty in connection with a scheme to plant drugs on innocent motorists to manufacture drug...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 142 min read
Amid Police Hiring Struggles, Young People Say Risks Outweigh Benefits
The Miami Police Department has had 809 applicants on a police officer recruitment list this year . A decade ago, they would’ve had that...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 142 min read
More States Set Distance Rules For People Video-Recording Police
Courts have affirmed the right to video-record the police, while also recognizing that police have the right to perform their duties...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 142 min read
Ex-Kansas Police Chief Charged with Obstruction in Newspaper Raid
Gideon Cody, a former Marion, Kans., police chief, who spearheaded a raid on a weekly newspaper last year, faces felony obstruction of...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 142 min read
Officer Charged With Murder After Shooting Black Pregnant Shoplifter
An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on murder and other charges in the shooting of Ta'Kiva Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 122 min read
Appeals Court Rules Police Can’t Hold Phones Indefinitely
Police can’t hold onto people’s possessions indefinitely after an arrest, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 112 min read
Illinois Sheriff Retiring After His Deputy Killed Sonya Massey
Sangamon County, Ill., Sheriff Jack Campbell, who hired the deputy charged in the death of Sonya Massey, announced he would retire five...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 92 min read
A Decade After Michael Brown Shooting, Reform Record Is Mixed
Friday marks a decade since Michael Brown was killed in a Ferguson, Mo., police shooting that led to crucial conversations about...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 62 min read
Special Prosecutors To Charge Ex- Chief Over Kansas Newspaper Raid
Special prosecutors are set to charge ex-Marion, Ks., Police Chief Gideon Cody with a low-level felony for his conduct after the raid he...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 52 min read
Kansas Magistrate Avoids Discipline In Newspaper Raid Case
The Kansas magistrate who authorized last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record escaped discipline from a state panel by making...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 51 min read
National Police Clearance Rates For Murder Return To Pre-COVID Level
Police clearance rates in murder cases were historically low in 2022. Clearance rates were low nationally in 2022. Rates reported by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 52 min read
Houston Seeks Sex Crime Victims Whose Cases Ended By 'Bad Policy'
The Houston Police Department is trying to contact thousands of sexual assault victims whose cases were suspended because of what the...
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