The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/police-misconduct/)
A judge dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, A more serious murder charge remains.
The judge in the case of police officers charged with killing George Floyd will allow defense attorneys to present evidence from a 2019 encounter between Floyd and Minneapolis police.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown punished five officers accused of engaging in a widespread cover-up to protect then-Superintendent Eddie Johnson and conceal the circumstances surrounding the drinking-and-driving incident that got Johnson fired.
Minnesota prosecutors told a judge that four former police officers should face stiff penalties if they are convicted in the May 25 killing of George Floyd.
Derek Chauvin’s lawyers have called for the charges of killing George Floyd to be dismissed, arguing that Floyd died of a lethal dose of fentanyl. A tentative trial date was set for March 8.
From 2013 through 2017, New Jersey prosecutors charged law enforcement officers with official misconduct at least 118 times. Fewer than one-third of them received time behind bars.
Official misconduct contributed to the false criminal convictions of more than 50 percent of innocent people who were later exonerated, according to a report from the National Registry of Exonerations.
Police must change abusive or coercive interrogation practices that lead to the conviction of innocent individuals and undermine community confidence in the justice system, writes a former Washington, D.C. detective.
Two of the four officers caught on video accosting two women at a May 31 protest have been indicted on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. They used batons and pepper balls on the women, who said they were merely walking to their car when they were confronted.
Cops are more likely to think their lives are threatened when they apprehend suspects in jurisdictions with high rates of gun ownership—and to react with deadly force—whether or not the individual is actually armed. That’s one of the findings in an American Academy of Political and Social Science research project aimed at demonstrating that police killings of civilians are a “solvable” problem.