Use-of-force investigations, oversight boards, misconduct cases and police reform.
Chief Lamar Bunn and Milner’s full-time officers leave Oct. 28 after alleging Mayor Craig Timmons put a tracker on the chief’s vehicle. The mayor has not directly addressed the claim, and no replacement force has been named.
Suspended Lauderhill police officer Brian Sguros, accused of using a dead man’s identity to take over his South Florida home after a 2022 welfare check, posted $25,000 bond after his arrest on five felony charges.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch will not charge the Senatobia officer who fired into a car outside a Walmart in June, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. His family says it still has not seen the officer’s body camera video.
Seven years into Chicago’s police consent decree, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office says the city still lets CPD investigate deaths caused by its own officers and wants a multi-agency task force to take over.
The slogan returned to the streets during the Cop City protests. What supporters mean by it, what critics say, and how the debate over police budgets has shifted.
Critics of the training center argue the money could fund other approaches to safety. What community-centered public safety models propose, and the evidence behind them.
In January 2023, environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita, was shot and killed by Georgia state troopers during a raid on the forest encampment. What happened and what followed.