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This Program Aims to Correct the Culture of Acquiescence That Allowed Derek Chauvin to Kill George Floyd "Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights. 31 January 2022 The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers...

Derek Chauvin trial expert calls Hammond police use of force among ‘most abusive’ he’s seen Video shows future police chief beating Black man in custody 27 January 2022 One of the nation’s leading experts in police procedure told the Hammond City Council on Tuesday that video of white police...

Biden’s DOJ continues to defend bad cops and wrongful convictions 26 January 2022 During the George Floyd protests, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violent eviction of protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Square just before President Donald Trump’s photo op at St...

Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession. 10 June 2020 When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a...

Governor knew the circumstances around a deadly arrest, but kept quiet, records show 28 January 2022 Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in a deep-red state, was immersed in a difficult reelection campaign when he received a text message from the head of the state police: Troopers had...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

There Is Nothing 'Conservative' About Letting Police Violate Our Rights Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's support for qualified immunity is in opposition to the principles he says he stands for. 21 January 2021 Newly-minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears on track to become somewhat of a...

Do Minnesota cases show it’s getting easier to convict cops? 18 January 2022 First, it was Mohamed Noor — convicted for shooting an unarmed woman who approached his police SUV. Then it was Derek Chauvin, found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin George Floyd to a Minneapolis street as...

Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Portland Releases Police Training Material That Encouraged Beating Protesters A presentation included a meme pushing violence against left-leaning demonstrators. 16 January 2022 [fairuse Portland, Oregon’s mayor announced just before the weekend that the city’s police department is...

WATCH: Raging Cop Strangles Female Officer After She Stopped Him from Attacking Handcuffed Man 14 January 2022 Since the murder of George Floyd rocked the nation in 2020, across the country police departments and municipalities have passed legislation requiring cops to intervene if they see...

Seattle police faked Proud Boys threat during race protests, says watchdog Investigation finds police used an ‘improper ruse’ and exacerbated an already volatile situation, but consequences are unlikely 5 January 2022 Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a...

Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training 6 January 2022 Excited delirium isn't a medical condition. It's just post-death rationalization that shifts the culpability for deaths at the hands of law enforcement to the corpses the cops created...

A Union Scandal Landed Hundreds of NYPD Officers on a Secret Watchlist. That Hasn’t Stopped Some From Jeopardizing Cases. 22 October 2021 After prosecutors flagged hundreds of cops caught fixing tickets for friends and family a decade ago, the officers’ work was supposed to get an extra level...

In 2021, Qualified Immunity Reform Died a Slow, Painful Death Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line. 30 December 2021 The year 2021 was widely seen, almost certainly foolishly, as the end of a dark era and the beginning of...

Five LAPD killings in nine days: teen’s death caps brutal year of police shootings 30 December 2021 The killing of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old who died in her mother’s arms after police shot her in a department store dressing room, has sparked outrage and renewed scrutiny of the...

Only 3 NYPD Officers Have Been Disciplined for Misconduct During the George Floyd Protests The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board. 30 December 2021 More than a year after the George Floyd protests, the New York...

'Excited delirium' cited as factor in many fatal police restraint cases. Some say it's bogus. 13 June 2020 One of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd voiced his concern about “excited delirium” while helping hold down the 46-year-old man until...

Iowa police body camera video is sometimes revealing — if the public is allowed to see it 1 February 2021 When an Iowa City police officer in 1996 accidentally shot and killed Eric Shaw, an artist working late in his father’s office, Troy Kelsay wasn’t the one who fired the gun but knew...

New Law Requires Police to Train Yearly on How to Stop Fellow Cops from Breaking the Law 26 December 2021 Arkansas has recently passed a handful of laws which are highly beneficial to the people and will go into effect in 2022. Some of the laws ban vaccine mandates, grant constitutional...