The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/police-misconduct/)
Reporters from USA TODAY, its 100-plus affiliated newsrooms and the nonprofit Invisible Institute in Chicago spent more than a year creating what they call the largest collection of police misconduct records ever compiled.
Few troubled New Jersey police officers are ever outed in court, leaving the citizens they accuse of crimes unable to challenge the officers’ credibility. The state’s AG is working on a fix.
For the past seven years, one place Philadelphia police get assigned when they have been deemed unfit for regular duty is a highly sensitive, federally funded, Homeland Security intelligence-sharing center. That troubles some outside the department.
A newly formed consortium of news organizations in California is blanketing the state with records requests under the state’s new police transparency law.
A video of two Detroit police officers mocking a motorist for “black girl magic” led to their firing and an internal investigation that has now cost two police captains their positions.
After student journalists used a public records request to get a list of thousands of California law enforcement officers convicted of crimes, the state AG threatened them with prosecution unless they destroy the list.
Miami prosecutors have charged two police officers caught on a home surveillance video slapping a handcuffed teenager and then disabling the camera once they knew they’d been taped.
A city official calls “ludicrous” the prosecutor’s claims that police mishandled potential evidence of drugs or alcohol and rushed to label as accidental one officer’s fatal shooting of another in what police say was a game of Russian roulette.
The new attorney general, former state Sen. Kwame Raoul, reportedly plans to review the seven-year sentence given former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Public defenders have called for an investigation of what they say is a widespread practice by the Baltimore Police Department of wrongly expunging internal affairs files of officers accused of misconduct.