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The Dallas Police Association paid for extra security for Amber Guyger, the former officer now on trial for killing her neighbor. There is anxiety over possible Ferguson-like unrest if she is acquitted.
Since 2016, four Dallas-area police officers have been indicted on murder charges. The two who have been tried were convicted and sent to prison. A third, Amber Guyger, faces trial Monday in the killing of Botham Jean, an accountant who was shot in his apartment.
Mayor Bill de Blasio attributed the rise to increased activity by the Civilian Complaint Review Board. He rejected the idea that the public is more dissatisfied with the police.
Competing measures put forward by Baltimore’s mayor and City Council would seek to end the practice of concealing details in the city’s settlements with plaintiffs in police-brutality suits and other litigation.
The Granville County, N.C., sheriff was indicted Monday on charges of obstruction of justice over allegations that he discussed killing a former deputy who had a recording of him using “racially insensitive language.”
Police misconduct cases spanning eight years show that 70 percent of Philadelphia police fired or demoted won reinstatement to their jobs under their union’s mandatory arbitration agreement with the city.
The court ruled in July that the agreements equated to “hush money,” as Ashley Overbey, who brought the lawsuit, argued the city improperly denied her half of her settlement after she responded to comments online about her experience with police.
A team monitoring Baltimore’s compliance with a 2017 Justice Department consent decree found some improvements but a number of ongoing problems with how the scandal-plagued department investigates its officers’ conduct.
In a report issued on Wednesday, a city watchdog agency found the investigations of these complaints against the police lacking, and recommended changes to how the department classifies and handles bias allegations.
In a yearlong investigation, reporter Justin Fenton probed how Baltimore police officer Wayne Jenkins was aggressively arresting suspects while he led a criminal enterprise of fellow officers.