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Justice Department Making Historic Investment in Prison and Jail Reform
Important work is taking place across the nation to ensure that people behind bars are treated with dignity. By Lauren-Brooke Eisen & Ram Subramanian On December 6, 2023; December 18, 2023 Inhumane conditions in prisons and jails across the country are being driven by overcrowded facilities, failing infrastructure, and inadequate staffing. The Department of Justice…
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What happens when your loved one goes missing?
A history of neglect, botched investigations, and flawed data reveal systemic issues with the way police treat missing person cases. By Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway On November 14, 2023 This story is part of the Chicago Missing Persons project by City Bureau and Invisible Institute, two nonprofit journalism organizations based in Chicago. Read the full investigation…
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Baltimore police unit under fire for deadly shootings, questionable stops
District Action Team officers fatally shot someone again on Tuesday. But concerns about the unit — created after the disbanding of the Gun Trace Task Force — have been rising for months By Brandon Soderberg On November 10, 2023 When Shogun Dowling noticed the unmarked car full of cops in tactical vests in his rearview…
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Justice Department launches probe into Lexington police practices
By Jerry Mitchell On November 8, 2023 The Justice Department is now investigating the city of Lexington and the Lexington Police Department. “No city, no town and no law enforcement agency is too large or too small to evade our enforcement of the constitutional rights every American enjoys,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of…
Read MoreFederal Lawsuit Claims Kansas City Enabled Police To Exploit Black Community For Years
The lawsuit filed by five Black women against the Kansas City, Kansas, police force compares the alleged misconduct and violence to the Jim Crow era. By Taiyler S. Mitchell Five Black women filed a federal lawsuit on Friday accusing several officers from a controversial Kansas police department of engaging in unethical, violent and abusive behavior targeting the…
Read More1 of 2 Colorado officers convicted in Elijah McClain’s death after neck hold, ketamine injection
By Collen Slevin & Matthew Brown On October 13, 2023 BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer of homicide Thursday and acquitted another of all charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a neck hold, pinned to the ground and given an overdose of the…
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Aurora is the first Colorado city under state oversight to reform policing. Two years in, how’s it going?
By Rachel Estabrook On October 10, 2023 The announcement came suddenly, though it confirmed what people in the community had known for years. In September 2021, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced his office had investigated the Aurora Police and Fire Departments for more than a year, and found “a pattern and practice of racially…
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Judge upholds most serious charges in deadly arrest of Black driver Ronald Greene
By Jim Mustian On October 9, 2023 FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — A judge delivered a victory Monday to the state prosecution of white Louisiana lawmen in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, allowing the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against a trooper captured on body-camera video dragging the Black motorist…
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No Charges Against Georgia State Troopers Who Killed ‘Cop City’ Activist
Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, an activist protesting a police training center near Atlanta, was shot 57 times by police. By Sebastian Murdock On October 6, 2023 No charges will be brought against the Georgia State Troopers who fatally shot an activist who was protesting the planned construction of a police training center outside of Atlanta. Manuel…
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