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In the first six months of health care professionals replacing police officers, no one they encountered was arrested
DPD Chief Pazen, who is fond of the STAR program, says it frees up officers to do their jobs: fight crime.
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New York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg. The Officer Paid Little Price.
Five years ago, NBA guard Thabo Sefolosha was standing outside a nightclub when he was tackled by five New York Police Department officers, one of whom broke his leg with a baton. Sefolosha sued, and the city paid its largest settlement for alleged police brutality in years, $4.5 million.
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Massachusetts Legislators Should Stand With Their Communities and Restore Face Recognition Prohibitions to Police Reform Bill
Before 2020 ends, Massachusetts could become the first state to implement robust state-wide protections from government use of face recognition. As part of a sweeping package of police reform legislation (S. 2963) inspired by protests for police accountability, state legislators in the commonwealth passed a prohibition on government agencies using the technology.
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How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
Modern technology has enabled the development and deployment of the pervasive and precise surveillance that may be slipping out of the control of the public.
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How QAnon is attracting cops
Armed, empowered—and enthralled with a deadly conspiracy.
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5 Cops Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Case Were Also Part of a Botched Raid in 2018
The incident traumatized a family, led to zero charges, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit filed against the Louisville Metro Government.
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Police shootings are a leading cause of death for young American men, new research shows
The study's authors say police violence is a "public health issue" with profound consequences for democracy.
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Family of UPS driver slain in police shootout files lawsuit
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A family is suing over the fatal December shooting of a Florida UPS driver who was taken hostage by two robbers and killed in a torrent of gunfire after he and the...
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Portland protesters throw fire bombs at officers on 100th day of demonstrations
Protesters in Portland threw fire bombs at police on Saturday night and at least one person was injured, police said, on the 100th day of demonstrations in the Oregon city over racial injustice and police brutality. Police described what they called “tumultuous and violent conduct” by protesters on the city’s Southeast Stark Street.
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Lasted Only 3 Years, LAPD's Electric-BMW Cars Now Sold Online for Very Rip-Off Prices
In 2017, Los Angeles started its eco-friendly project by buying a hundred electric-BMW vehicles for its police department. However, after a few months, police officers' issues using the car for their private usage were reported. Now, the state government was allegedly selling the cars batch-per-batch for very rip-off prices on online stores. Here's how much to buy one.
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Video shows forceful arrest of Black man stopped while jogging in San Antonio
A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call. Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he screams.
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Wisconsin investigators say knife found at scene of police shooting of Jacob Blake
Investigators of a shooting by a white police officer that left a Black man, Jacob Blake Jr., paralyzed and the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife found a knife belonging to Blake at the scene of the confrontation, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.
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Cops admit vandalizing cars of man who filed complaint against them, prosecutor says
Two Asbury Park police officers admitted Tuesday that they vandalized a pair of cars last year belonging to a man who filed an internal affairs complaint against them, authorities said. Asbury Park Police Officer Stephen Martinsen, 31, and former SLEO-2 Thomas Dowling, 27, both of Asbury Park, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and as part of their plea deals they must forfeit any future public employment in the state, according to a statement from Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.
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The Invention of the Police
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them.
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How Does It Feel to Make Police Shows in 2020?
Confessions from the writers, directors, and producers.
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Bravo You Heroes: Columbus OH Police Mace Double Amputee, Take His Legs, Leave Him Writhing
In a new study that manages to be both shocking and grimly unsurprising, researchers found police in 20 U.S. cities fail to meet even the most basic international human rights standards governing lethal force. The only stunner: They didn't include Columbus, OH, where rioting sadists have been determinedly ramming bikes into and then macing peaceful protesters - now including a young double amputee, whose prosthetics the cops seized in what was deemed "a new level of abhorrent."
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We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing?
Amid calls to rethink policing, body cameras remain a popular reform tool. But they remain locked within a larger system that resists transparency and accountability.
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Cell phone pings from Lori Vallow's late brother led investigators to the bodies of her children
Authorities used the pings from the cell phone of the brother of Lori Vallow when determining where to search for the remains of her missing children, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate East Idaho News. Earlier this month, law enforcement officials found the remains of Tylee Ryan, 17, and JJ Vallow, 7, on the rural property of Chad Daybell in Fremont County.
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Does legal weed make police more effective?
Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit” to police departments' ability to solve other types of crime, according to researchers at Washington State University. “Our models show no negative effects of legalization and, instead, indicate that crime clearance rates for at least some types of crime are increasing faster in states that legalized than in those that did not,” the authors write in a study published in the journal Police Quarterly.
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