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Federal 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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Reform plan still has Paterson police responding to mental health crises
Some changes made, but not yet addressed is what many see as main problem — armed officers intervening instead of mental health experts By Taylor Jung On October 2, 2023 It’s been six months since the state attorney general’s office took over the Paterson Police Department, and nearly seven months since the department’s officers killed…
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Police Blame Some Deaths on ‘Excited Delirium.’ ER Docs Consider Pulling the Plug on the Term.
By Markian Hawryluk and Renuka Rayasam On October 2, 2023 The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, shocked him with a Taser, and restrained him. Haleck became unresponsive and was taken to a…
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Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time By Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate…
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Minneapolis poised to give $145k settlement to MPD officer involved in beating
Sgt. Andrew Bittell led a SWAT team that rode around shooting plastic bullets at curfew violators By Deena Winter On September 29, 2023 The city of Minneapolis is poised to pay $145,000 to a SWAT team leader whose unit drove around in an unmarked van firing plastic bullets at people without warning five days after the police…
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