U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a federal judge Friday not to get involved with police reform in Chicago and reject a consent decree that the city and Illinois have been working on together for almost a year.
Read moreChicago claims U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions still refuses to release millions in federal policing funds because the city will not cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration policies, despite a nationwide injunction declaring such withholding unconstitutional.
Read moreMinnesota’s attorney general claims a Florida-based charity that prides itself on helping families of fallen police officers used most of the donations it received to send solicitation mailers.
Read moreThe publishers of New Hampshire’s top news outlets took the state to court Friday for stonewalling their access to a secret list of police officers whose records of misconduct might raise eyebrows.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss two women’s claims that Chicago discriminates against female police officers, as statistical analyses and the allegations of discrimination plausibly allege a widespread practice that excludes women from command positions.
Read moreA jury on Friday convicted white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
Read moreSan Francisco police officers targeted 37 black people with arrests for selling “small amounts of drugs” because of their race, six arrestees claim in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreTwo mothers and one grandmother filed a federal class action Wednesday claiming Illinois’ lack of regulations to curtail gun trafficking disproportionately affects kids in black communities.
Read moreA police officer was killed and six of his comrades were wounded when an elderly man began shooting at deputies who came to serve a search warrant, barricading himself in his home with children and spraying bullets across his upscale suburban neighborhood, authorities said.
Read moreAuthorities say five South Carolina law enforcement officers have been shot in Florence County and the suspect is in custody.
Read moreTwo South Florida women claim in court that they were surrounded by sheriff’s deputies, a helicopter and snarling K-9s after a mixup at a local car dealership made them the accidental target of a highway police pursuit.
Read moreShining light on fatal shootings and police misconduct, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed two bills that expand public access to officers’ personnel records and require timely release of recordings of police shootings.
Read moreThe city of Beaumont, California, illegally strip-searches minor misdemeanor suspects and videotapes it at the police station, a girl’s mother claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreOverturning a lower court’s ruling, a California appellate court found Friday that the City of Hayward can demand reimbursement from a nonprofit lawyers guild for producing redacted electronic records in compliance with discovery in an underlying police brutality dispute.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit grappled Friday with whether a student artist suffered discrimination when his contest-winning art was removed from the U.S. Capitol complex.
Read moreA Minnesota judge found Thursday “probable cause” to advance charges against a Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman.
Read moreOakland, Calif., and its Housing Authority Police stop, arrest, search, handcuff and harass public housing authority residents for merely standing or sitting — “loitering”— in their own front yards, two men claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreAffirming summary judgment for Riverdale, N.J. police officers, one of whom who kicked a man in the face, the Third Circuit said the failure by the plaintiff to identify which one did it means he can’t establish “personal involvement.”
Read moreTwo journalists were detained overnight by Bulgarian police after they found burning and shredded documents while working on a story about suspected fraud involving European Union funds, one of the reporters said Friday. Bulgarian authorities confirmed the two were taken into custody and released.
Read moreAlleging “shameless corruption” in Baltimore County’s handling of sex crimes, two women hit the state’s attorney’s office, the public university system and the police department with an explosive federal class action.
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