The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a cash bail report but did not make a recommendation because its members couldn’t agree.
Author: Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
Philadelphia police seized their property. Most were never convicted of a crime. Most never got their stuff back.
A survey confirms arguments that civil asset forfeiture mostly ensnares law-abiding, low-income people of color, not large, criminal enterprises.
Minnesota judges are hiding jurors’ names when cops go on trial for killing people
Since 2016, four police officers in Minnesota have been put on trial for killing someone on duty. All but one of those cases have been decided by an anonymous jury.
’71 gets a gun’: Graduates of Washington’s police training academy unprepared to patrol streets, law enforcement leaders say
In 2019, a consultant said instruction at the state training academy was inadequate. The problems remain, according to law enforcement officials.
This company has provided permissive policies behind high-profile police shootings of Black men in the US
Lexipol markets its policies as a way to protect local governments from frivolous lawsuits. It has attracted law enforcement agencies nationwide.
‘Everything wrong with policing in America’: Clips of Andrew Brown Jr. shooting show the limits of body camera videos
Video shows Andrew Brown Jr. driving away from deputies, but DA Andrew Womble said he endangered them. The deputies will not be charged in his death.
Bodycams haven’t lived up to promises of exposing police misconduct. One reason: The police decide what to release.
Police officer body cameras were supposed to provide a window into what really happened when someone dies at the hands of a police officer.
3 former police officers accused in George Floyd’s death won’t stand trial until March 2022
Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao, were supposed to face trial Aug. 23 in the death of George Floyd last year.
Derek Chauvin’s conviction is progress, but it ‘will do nothing to change’ urban policing on its own
Jurors quickly convicted Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death, but it does little to “change the physics of urban policing.”
Assault or ‘reasonable’ policing? Takeaways from Derek Chauvin trial’s closing arguments as jury begins deliberations
The jury started deliberating in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial Monday afternoon. He faces three charges in the death of George Floyd.