California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said investigators will look into reports of a “pattern and practices of unconstitutional” policing carried out by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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Former New York City Police Department officers and firefighters who say Mayor Bill de Blasio put them in harm’s way by unsealing discipline records advanced their claims to the Second circuit on Tuesday.
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A car thief who found a toddler in the backseat of a stolen vehicle drove back and chastised the mother for leaving the child unattended before taking off again, police in Oregon said.
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Little Rock FBI agents on Thursday arrested the man caught on video repeatedly striking a Capitol police officer with a flagpole during the violent mob attack in Washington last week.
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The ex-lover of Spain’s king emeritus testified Friday that her life had been threatened by a former spy chief on orders from the exiled monarch himself in a conversation that “terrified” her.
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California law expanded the public’s access to police records in 2019, but one court ruling has exempted the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
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A Los Angeles resident pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal criminal charge of unlawfully operating a drone that struck a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter last year.
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Last month, a federal judge held Portland in contempt of court for violent protest policing. Now, he’s deciding which sanctions might prevent police from doing it again.
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Raped at 14, Shazia took the rare and courageous step of reporting the crime to Pakistani police, only to face a traumatic “virginity test” — a long-standing practice that denies justice to victims.
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The LAPD’s promise of robust oversight for facial recognition technology in police work hasn’t quelled concerns from civil liberties groups that the tools will perpetuate harm in communities of color.
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The trial of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with the death of George Floyd has been split in two.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit granted immunity to a Michigan police officer who was given sports tickets by a towing company owner who later disclosed the names of troopers he had given tickets to, finding the officer’s anger over the incident did not result in the removal of the towing company from the police force’s rotation list.
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A dog walker in northeast England sparked a large-scale police search after reporting suspected human remains in a muddy field. But the suspected grisly find turned out to be a potato, officers said Friday.
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Police confirmed late Thursday the death of an officer who engaged with the pro-Trump mob, making it the fifth death connected to the insurrection.
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U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund submitted his resignation on Thursday, a day after pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol building in an unsuccessful attempt to halt the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden.
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A woman arrested at a protest against police brutality filed a federal lawsuit against the city of San Diego on Thursday, claiming police confiscated and kept her cellphone far longer than necessary on the pretext of obtaining a search warrant.
Read morePolice officers have a “non-trivial” privacy interest in their unit assignments, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, so the Las Vegas Review-Journal cannot request information regarding police unit assignments related to sex-trafficking cases without showing it will advance a significant public interest.
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Two Louisville detectives were fired Wednesday for their roles in the raid that left Breonna Taylor dead, while Kentucky’s largest city also announced the hiring of Atlanta’s former police chief as the new head of its force.
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A Wisconsin prosecutor announced Tuesday that none of the officers involved in the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha last August will face criminal charges, prompting the community to brace for another round of protests.
Read moreAn Illinois man filed a federal class action claiming the Chicago suburb of Antioch uses a recording system meant for emergency calls to illegally record conversations on the police department’s nonemergency lines.
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