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January 1 is the deadline for police departments to use the National Incident-Based Reporting System. San Francisco, Phoenix, and many other cities won’t be able to abide by the deadline.
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would take up two challenges to President Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives, his diversion of military funds to pay for construction of the southern border wall, and a policy that has required tens of thousands of asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims are processed.
One-fourth of police killings involve someone in a mental health crisis. Larger police departments are adopting training in de-escalation skills.
With the city approaching a homicide record, residents complain of slow police response times, poorly conducted investigations, and lack of communication with families.
Rochelle Bilal of of the Guardian Civic League of Philadelphia called the National Fraternal Order of Police’s endorsement of President Donald Trump’s reelection an “outrage.”
Telemarketers for “Law Enforcement for a Safer America” raises funds from retirees and spends most of the income on its own operating costs.
“Defunding the police is the exact opposite of what we need to do. We need to invest more in the police and public safety,” Attorney General William Barr tells big-city police chiefs.
A group of prosecutors and law enforcement leaders has placed Proposition 20 on the November ballot to expand the list of felonies for which convicts are ineligible for early parole, increase penalties for repeat shoplifters, and collect DNA samples from adults convicted of some misdemeanors.
A U.S. Postal Service order to take its uniformed police officers off streets has started a legal battle pitting it against a police union as the agency is under scrutiny for delivery delays in a presidential election that could hang on mail-in ballots,
Since 2017, at least 265 calls to police have reported violence and abuse inside ICE’s four privately run federal detention centers in California. Charges were filed in only three cases.