Police Oversight
Administrative Trial Will Determine Whether to Fire Officer in Eric Garner’s Death
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Five years after the fatal chokehold that sparked protests throughout the nation, Garner’s family might finally get a resolution.
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Five years after the fatal chokehold that sparked protests throughout the nation, Garner’s family might finally get a resolution.
Since the 2014 death of Eric Garner and a $35 million retraining program began, New York police have faced fewer complaints about the use of chokeholds. But the practice continues and the penalties officers face are light.
The N.H. Center for Public Interest Journalism, along with several newspapers and the ACLU of New Hampshire, sued the N.H. Department of Justice, arguing it must release the so-called “Laurie List” under the state’s Right to Know laws.
The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Chicago mayoral election is the former head of the police disciplinary board. She now faces a runoff against a fellow self-styled police reformer.
Two analysts square off over the motives and impact of Jeff Sessions’ parting shot, when he reined in the use of Justice Department consent decrees to reform local police departments.
After six years of federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department has shown “remarkable” progress but needs more reforms before it can operate free of court supervision, a federal judge told the city.
Several thousand officers have been trained in “mindfulness” in cities like Dallas, Boston and Seattle, as well as towns across Oregon, California and Wisconsin. Proponents champion the practice as a way to treat the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder among police and reduce excessive use of force.
In the wake of Jeff Sessions’ departure from the Justice Department, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is urging the Trump administration to resume federal oversight of troubled police departments and reinstate the Justice Department’s community policing office.
The police chief of Kenmore, N.Y., was placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and accused of stealing pain pills. He admitted an addiction. In a separate case, a police chief from Alabama was suspended last week after he was accused of masturbating several times in front of guests, including children and teenage girls, at a beachfront resort in Florida.
The unidentified officer was off duty, working security at a grocery store, when he used the device on a girl suspected of shoplifting. The cop was placed on restricted duty while officials investigate.