Police Reform

Body camera footage captured the sound of a police officer repeatedly asserting that an 11-year-old girl could be charged with creating child sexual abuse images of herself. The child’s parent then took to TikTok with a post that’s since gone viral.

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols.

The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing police from some nonviolent 911 calls and sending behavioral health clinicians.

Several current and former California police officers are accused of committing civil rights violations and fraud in an effort to get a pay raise and lying on reports to cover up the use of excessive force.

Six former Mississippi law officers, including some who call themselves the “Goon Squad,” plead guilty to state charges Monday for their racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth.

A rogue group of deputies who called themselves “The Goon Squad” burst into the home without a warrant and abused the men before shooting Michael Corey Jenkins.

The charges stem from a July 4 arrest that Northwoods officer Samuel Davis made without informing dispatchers or writing a report, according to the probable cause statement.

The Justice Department has found that Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people.

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing.

The parents of a 22-year-old Colorado man killed by a sheriff’s deputy while suffering a mental health crisis will get $19 million from state and local agencies and changes to how officers are trained under a settlement.

Preston Hemphill was fired Feb. 3 for violating policies during the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died in a hospital three days later. Five other officers have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Nichols’ death.

The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin entered the plea Friday in a Minnesota court before Washington County Judge Sheridan Hawley. Chauvin appeared via Zoom from a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. Chauvin and his now ex-wife were charged with multiple counts...

The investigation began after the killing of Breonna Taylor during the service of a so-called “no knock warrant.”

In court papers late Tuesday, the city said it will pay $21,500 to each of at least 200 protesters who were detained, arrested or met with force by NYPD during a June 4, 2020, protest.

They are all out on bond and their next hearing is scheduled for May 1.

Authorities say two sheriff’s deputies who have been suspended for five days for their role in the arrest of Tyre Nichols failed to keep their body cameras activated

Foot chases have long been a routine and accepted part of what police officers do: When someone runs from an officer, the officer takes off after them.

The toll of police brutality in America was on painful display Tuesday night as family members of Black men and women killed in custody sat alongside lawmakers in the House to hear the President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

In the years leading up to Tyre Nichols’ deadly arrest, Memphis police have been dogged by a confluence of dangerous trends, including a chronic shortage of officers and a struggle to bring in recruits.