The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/page/2/)
Major police departments that are successful at making arrests in homicides generally assign detectives fewer than five cases annually, found a Washington Post analysis of homicide caseloads in 48 cities.
Attorneys for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke announced Friday morning they will let 12 jurors selected this week decide his guilt or innocence in Laquan McDonald’s shooting. It was rare for such a critical choice — a bench or jury trial — to be decided so late in such high-profile proceedings.
Evidence from Botham Jean’s apartment supports Dallas officer Amber Guyger’s account that she shot Jean from across the room as she stood inside his apartment door last week. Guyger faces manslaughter charges.
Tarrant County has the state’s first “treatment court” that diverts officers to a recovery program instead of criminal prosecution if they suffer from a stress disorder, mental illness or substance addiction.
An arrest affidavit says Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, in the wrong apartment, described Botham Shem Jean as looking like a large silhouette because it was dark inside. “Guyger drew her firearm, gave verbal commands that were ignored by Jean,” the affidavit says.
Overdue child-support debt has increased by 1,000 percent since 1986 to $114 billion. So has criminalization of debtors. Some 14 percent of child-support debtors end up in jail by the time their kids are nine years old.
Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was arrested on a manslaughter charge on Sunday, three days after she allegedly shot and killed a man after mistakenly entering his apartment at the complex where she also lived.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was released after a judge gave him what the Chicago Tribune called a “slap-on-the-wrist” bond hike of $2,000 for giving media interviews in advance of his trial for shooting a 17-year-old in 2014.
Federal prosecutors are using a grand jury to investigate former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, an indication the probe into whether he misled officials exploring his role in a controversial media disclosure has intensified. McCabe’s attorney charges that a leak about the case “is a sad and poorly veiled attempt to try to distract the American public.”
Chicago police officers would be required to document every instance in which they point a gun at someone under an agreement reached between Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The new requirement marks a win for Madigan, who had pushed for the new level of documentation as part of her ongoing negotiations with Emanuel on a federal consent decree that will govern sweeping police reforms.