Written by JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG The head of the Texas state police pronounced the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” telling lawmakers that there were enough officers and...
Read MoreWritten by JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG The most violent videos languished for years, lost or ignored in a digital vault. Louisiana State Police troopers and top brass alike would often look the other way, even as officers took...
Read MoreWritten by MATT O’BRIEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER If you’re homeless and looking for temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, expect a visit from a robotic police dog that will scan your eye to make sure you don’t have a...
Read MoreWritten by MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE BLEIBERG Not long after a jury convicted former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of killing George Floyd, police chiefs across the U.S. started speaking up. And it wasn’t to defend...
Read MoreWritten by CLAUDIA LAUER and THALIA BEATY In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with...
Read MoreWritten by CHRISTINE FERNANDO Rayshard Brooks was killed last June when Atlanta police responding to a report of a man asleep in a car blocking a drive-thru shot him as he tried to run away. Later that summer, a similar...
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The Town of Chapel Hill passed a resolution to create immediate reform of its police department’s...
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One UNC professor examined racial disparities in the justice system by looking at North...
Read MoreCalls for deep police reforms gained momentum as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of police pushed to dismantle the entire department. Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests demanding a reckoning with...
Read MoreMurder. Brutality. Reprehensible. Indefensible. Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed black man who cried for help as...
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