The stakes couldn’t be higher for the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and the City of Memphis. On Monday, lawyers for the two sides began what is expected to be a four-day bench trial over whether the city violated a 1978 consent decree promising that it would not collect political intelligence on its citizens.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded summary judgment for Marcella Winn, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who has asserted immunity against claims that she sent a woman to prison for 17 years by suppressing evidence,.
Read moreA federal judge told a Chicago police union its attempt to intervene in Illinois’ lawsuit against the City of Chicago over police brutality against blacks and Latinos came nine months too late.
Read moreLawmakers advanced a controversial bill Thursday that aims to reform California’s money bail system though recent amendments have alarmed advocates who say the current bill could authorize prosecutors and judges to promote indefinite pretrial detention.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Tuesday that body-camera footage and other records related to an officer’s fatal shooting of an Iowa woman three years ago will be unsealed and made public.
Read moreAfter months of pressure from police accountability advocates, the Los Angeles Police Department will review its use of data and technology-driven policing methods.
Read moreCalifornia police agencies cannot be held liable for vehicle pursuits that result in collisions, injuries or death when chasing suspects if there is a policy in place and officers say in writing they understand that policy, the state’s highest court ruled Monday.
Read morePortland police were accused Sunday of being heavy-handed against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators, reportedly injuring some counter-protesters and prompting the city’s new police chief to order a review of officers’ use of force.
Read moreBlaming police corruption in Baltimore for the death of a father of a 10, a family claims in federal court that the 86-year-old patriarch died in a car crash because officers were preoccupied with planting drugs at the scene.
Read morePolice said Friday that a man suspected of killing George H.W. Bush’s former doctor to avenge his mother’s death on an operating table 20 years ago was found dead of an apparent suicide after an encounter with police.
Read moreStepping up its efforts to communicate with the deaf, be they criminal suspects or victims, the Philadelphia Police Department signed a settlement Thursday that includes nearly $100,000 in relief.
Read moreTwo Midwestern Christians claim in court that they are not free to express their religious beliefs outside an Ohio abortion clinic without being threatened and arrested by police.
Read moreChicago and state officials released a plan Friday to carry out far-reaching police reforms under federal court supervision more than a year after a U.S. Justice Department investigation found a longstanding history of civil rights violations by the police department.
Read moreLOS ANGELES (CN) – Deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department violated the Fourth Amendment when they entered a shed
Read moreIn an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Piexon AG, maker of a pepper spray gun that permanently blinded a woman who was shot in the head at close range by a police officer for the City of Beaumont, Calif., rejecting the city’s claim of failure to warn.
Read moreA Los Angeles Police officer’s bullet fatally struck a Trader Joe’s employee Saturday during a shootout with a man who led police on a pursuit and fired at officers as he ran into the grocery store, the LAPD police chief revealed Tuesday.
Read moreThe father of an Australian woman who was fatally shot by a former Minneapolis police officer last summer filed a $50 million lawsuit Monday claiming he and his partner covered up the circumstances of the shooting by not activating their body cameras.
Read moreA married couple claim in federal court that Baytown, Texas police and Harris County sheriff’s officers blew out their windows with explosives, “ransacked everything inside the home, seized and removed several items worth in excess of $10,000,” returned none of it, and falsely arrested them in an alleged drug bust that turned up nothing.
Read moreA dispute is breaking out in Great Britain over the long-overlooked use of children by police and intelligence agencies as informants and spies in efforts to fight terrorism, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation and gang activity.
Read moreA Texas policeman’s decision not to call off his K-9 as it bit into a surrendering suspect’s calf was not excessive force because the man had a knife within reach, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
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