Sasha Johnson was in critical condition after being shot in London on Sunday. Her political party says it's received hateful messages.

William Jennette was held down during an intense struggle with police that ended in his death. Now his daughter has a lawsuit against authorities.

Rep. Eric Swalwell accused McCarthy's team of having cut the officer off, who is trying to get greater recognition of the impact of the Capitol riot.

"Normally as a courtesy, they would inform the local police and that was not done," city councilman Darius J. Horton told Insider.

Body-camera video shows the Chicago cop who shot Anthony Alvarez asked another officer to cuff the dying man. That officer provided aid instead.

If the bill passes, officers who resign while under investigation, or are facing disciplinary actions or criminal charges, wouldn't be hired in NY.

"Today, a jury did the right thing," the former president said in a statement. "But a more basic question has always remained: would justice be done?"

Activists say New York's legal weed bill is "restitution" for BIPOC communities disproportionately targeted by prohibition laws and policing.

Stavian Rodriguez died in November after police responded to a robbery at a gas station in Oklahoma City.

Daniel Prude died last March, a week after police responded to a call for a mental health crisis and put a "spit hood" over his head.

A Kentucky Senate committee advanced the bill, which was described by one lawmaker as a response to the riots seen in many cities last year.

Camden, New Jersey’s police department has become an example of police reform since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The city developed an extensive surveillance system with over 200 cameras and 70 microphones placed around the city. But the community is sceptical as to whether this method is […]

Former President Barack Obama in an interview set to be released later on Wednesday emphasised that activists and politicians who want policing reforms lose a lot of people when they use slogans like “defund the police,” according to Vanity Fair. On the Snapchat political news series “Good Luck America,” Obama […]

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under consideration to serve in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration as the Secretary of Transportation, according to a CNN report. Emanuel’s handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting has upset a contingent of progressive Democratic lawmakers and threatens to halt any traction for the former Washington […]

The Los Angeles Police Department banned the use of commercial facial recognition software after being confronted about its officers’ use of Clearview AI by BuzzFeed News, the outlet reported Tuesday. BuzzFeed News reported that it had inquired about documents showing that “25 LAPD employees had performed nearly 475 searches using […]

States around the US voted in November to loosen their laws around drug possession, signalling an end to the decades-old war on drugs. Some states legalised recreational marijuana. Some legalised or deprioritized the use of magic mushrooms. Oregon became the first in the nation to decriminalize the possession of small […]

Democratic nominee Joe Biden isn’t very liberal on policing issues or criminal justice reform. Residents in the neighbourhood where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May told Insider that they disagree with Biden’s record and views, but they’re voting for him anyway. “I voted for Biden not because […]

Colleges’ increased reliance on exam monitoring software during the pandemic has sparked uproar among students and faculty around the world who say the tools are invasions of privacy, biased, and ineffective. One company, Proctorio, has drawn particular ire for its CEO’s attempts to silence critics with lawsuits and personal attacks […]

Officer Shaun Lucas has been charged with the murder of Jonathan Price, a Black man whom he shot on Saturday night, in Wolfe City, Texas. Lucas was called to a disturbance and found Price at the scene, a police statement said. He fired his Taser and then his gun at […]

A Florida sheriff’s office deployed a futuristic algorithm that uses crime data to predict who is likely to commit another crime. In a sweeping six-month investigation published this week, the Tampa Bay Times reported that the algorithm relied on questionable data and arbitrary decisions and led to the serial harassment […]

Joseph Griffin was stopped by deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office while jogging through Deltona, Florida, on August 27. Deputies said Griffin resembled the description of a burglary suspect, and detained him until they confirmed he was not the suspect. Griffin told viewers on a Facebook Live: “If something […]

Summary List Placement Video of a pregnant Australian woman’s arrest after promoting an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook has circulated widely online. 28-year-old Zoe-Lee Buhler was at home in her pajamas with her partner and children when Victoria police arrested and handcuffed her on Wednesday, the BBC reported. A police officer […]

The police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, say 102 of 175 people arrested there since protests began over the shooting of Jacob Blake listed addresses outside the city, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kyle Rittenhouse, a teen from Antioch, Illinois, charged with two killings in the unrest, is among that number. […]

Witnesses to Jacob Blake’s shooting have said that police used a Taser and wrestled with him prior to the shooting, according to multiple sources. Raysean White, who took the widely-shared video of the incident, told CNN that police also tussled with him before he started recording. Another witness gave the […]

Delays in supplying body cameras to police in Kenosha, Wisconsin means that there is no officer footage of Sunday’s shooting of Jacob Blake, according to the Associated Press (AP). Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back on Sunday, in circumstances that are now being […]

Jacob Blake was left with serious injuries after being shot seven times by the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. The 29-year-old spine’s was severed and his vertebrae were shattered by the bullets, the family’s lawyer Ben Crump said on Tuesday. Crump said Blake was unlikely to walk again. Another […]

At $US6 billion a year, the New York Police Department has the largest police budget in the nation. But when police pension, fringe benefits, settlements, and debt payments are added in, police spending actually swells to over $US10 billion a year. Most of that goes to uniformed officers’ salaries, overtime, […]

Armed federal agents, some from the Department of Homeland Security, have been patrolling the streets of Portland, Oregon, using military tactics and putting protesters into unmarked vans. Demonstrators have reported being arrested by federal agents without explanation as well as being teargassed and hit with impact munitions. In response, the […]

The Dutch police uncovered a torture chamber inside one of several shipping containers near a small village in the Netherlands. Six other shipping containers were found with handcuffs and chemical toilets. The police found instruments at the site that could be used for torture. Six men have been arrested on […]

Breonna Taylor’s family have updated their legal complaint against Louisville police officers, according to local reports. The family claims the warrant on Taylor’s apartment was issued in the interests of speeding along a city redevelopment project, the Louisviller Courier Journal reported. The warrant was one of five targeting Taylor’s ex-boyfriend […]

Sarah Brayne is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of Texas at Austin; prior to joining the faulty at UT-Austin, Brayne was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. Brayne is also the founder and director of the Texas Prison Education Initiative, a group of faculty and students who […]

Police across America have faced heavy criticism in recent weeks over instances of brutality and excessive force. But some policing critics have also noted that the country’s law enforcement agencies are often unable to fulfil one of their main tasks: to solve crimes. Federal government data from 2018 show that […]

Nationwide protests against racism and police brutality have heightened calls for national police reform. Many activists and progressive lawmakers are calling for a national defunding of the police and the redistribution of resources to social services, including education and healthcare. Democrats in Congress have crafted a sweeping bill meant to […]

Sean Hannity made a comparison between the police killing of George Floyd and the FBI investigation into President Donald Trump on his show Tuesday. Hannity called for better treatment of police during the current protests, saying Floyd’s death was down to “bad apples.” The host pivoted at this moment to […]

Portland’s white chief of police has stepped down to allow a Black officer to lead, according to the Associated Press (AP). Portland police have come under criticism for their response to George Floyd protests. Oregon’s ACLU described officers’ actions as “excessively violent.” Jami Resch, the outgoing chief, said her replacement […]

President Donald Trump called Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior White House adviser, “my star” during a Monday White House roundtable with law enforcement. Kushner praised law enforcement during the White House event and said he hoped they would help craft solutions “that could bring this country forward” amid national […]

In a Friday morning interview with CBS “This Morning,” 2020 presidential contender and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City falsely said he had never been asked about New York’s controversial policing policies. “Well nobody asked me about it before I started running for president, so come on,” Bloomberg […]

Boris Johnson has published his Conservative Party manifesto for the upcoming general election. The manifesto promises more spending on the health service and no tax rises over the next five years. However, Johnson has a long record of breaking his election promises. Here are just some of the promises Boris […]

The fatal killing of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson by a white police officer has renewed questions over police training tactics and what exactly can be done to prevent unnecessary use of force. The officer, Aaron Dean, resigned from his post and was charged with murder Monday night. Police departments across the […]

Emerging tech is making it more efficient and inexpensive for police across the country to scale up their surveillance operations. Drones, facial recognition, and algorithm-driven policing are a few of the many technologies aiding police operations. The surveillance tech has reportedly been deployed across the US as protests sweep the […]

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