police reform

You get really frustrated because you know you didn’t do anything. You’re guilty before you’re proven innocent, so now you have to prove your innocence.

Kel Smith, 37, is a mental health counselor who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Black man, he’s known since he was a teenager that he was more likely to get pulled over by the police while driving – and that every stop had the potential to be fatal. He recalls one night as a college student in California when...

Christy Lopez of the Georgetown Law Center says the call to defund the police is about realigning resources to people who may not have a badge and a gun — but who play a different role in keeping communities safe. That could include the people behind mental health services and other community resources. But she said calls to simply cut...

From Slave Patrols to Jim Crow, what can we learn about policing from history? NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway introduces us to an ex-chief of police who has been at the center of the fight towards change for decades.

It’s rare for public opinion on social issues to change sharply and swiftly

Nearly 10 years ago, Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr., a college football player, was shot dead through the windshield of his car by a police officer. Today, his sister Amber is urging people to remember her brother alongside George Floyd and other unarmed black men killed by police. And she wants the cop who killed him prosecuted for murder.

‘The issue of how police present themselves regarding their image is an important one and should not be allowed to drift away’

Police on Wednesday forcibly cleared out Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone after about two weeks in a situation that had attracted the complaints of local business owners and the ire of President Donald Trump during a number of Twitter posts

Dr. Howard Henderson, director at the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University, speaks out on the critical need for police reform and the disconnect between training and implementation on the streets.

Andrea Ritchie of the Barnard Center for Research on Women says Black women are more likely to be killed by police than Black men, as evidenced by the shooting of Breonna Taylor. She says Breonna’s Law, while a positive step, doesn’t do enough to protect them.

In 2006, Cariol Horne, a police officer from Buffalo, N.Y., intervened when a fellow police officer put a handcuffed suspect in a chokehold. Later, she was fired from her job and lost her pension. Today, she’s fighting for a law that will require other police officers to hold their fellow cops accountable for misconduct.

The House has approved a far-reaching policing overhaul from Democrats

Montgomery County Executive Mark Elrich announced a plan to review the police department and public safety measures for the county. His proposal includes a task force aimed at auditing the policies and procedures of the police department. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

With a policing overhaul stalled in the Senate, House Democrats have returned to Washington for a daylong debate and vote on their package of law enforcement changes

Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist, died in August 2019 after police in Aurora, Colorado, stopped him on his way home from the store and put him in an illegal chokehold. LX News host Nik Z reviews the body cam footage of his encounter with the cops and Marc Sallinger, a reporter for KUSA in Denver, gives an update...

A Republican policing bill stalled out Wednesday, blocked in a vote by Senate Democrats who dismissed it as meager “crumbs.”

Congress is hitting an impasse on policing legislation, despite public outcry for changes after the killings of Black people

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have introduced legislation to reform policing in America, but they diverge on some issues

Five days after the death of George Floyd, two PhD students from Miami organized a protest to voice their concerns about police brutality. Oshea Johnson, the co-founder of Protests Miami, had never led a protest before. This is the story of how he and his co-founder, Ahzin Bahraini, achieved a historic virtual meeting with every Miami-Dade police chief.

Alyssa Rosenberg, an opinion writer for the Washington Post, says the “fantasy” of policing portrayed on cop shows can be bad for communities that are heavily policed and also does a disservice to police officers.