police reform

News4’s Aimee Cho talks with Arlington’s new independent policing auditor Mummi Ibrahim.

The next time you get pulled over by a police officer, instead of getting fined you could get free money.

In the wake of the George Floyd murder, local police departments are turning to new training to help officers learn how to step in if another officer is using excessive force. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Two years after the murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide calls for police reform, several police departments in the D.C. area are taking part in a program training officers to hold each other accountable for their actions.  Officers in Frederick, Maryland, recently signed up for the ABLE program, which stands for Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement.  The training runs...

Two years after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring new use-of-force rules for federal law enforcement. “I don’t know any good cop that likes a bad cop. But many people … such accountability is all too rare.”

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at reforming policing practices on the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The order creates a national registry of officers fired for misconduct and encourages state and local police to tighten restrictions on chokeholds and so-called no-knock warrants. It also restricts the transfer of military equipment to law enforcement agencies and...

Montgomery County unanimously approved the creation of a nine-member police accountability board.

There’s a new plan to give the public a bigger voice in police misconduct cases in Montgomery County, Maryland. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and other high profile police killings, a group of developers launched TurnSignl, an app that connects drivers with attorneys during police traffic stops. The app, which is now available in Minnesota, Georgia and California, is set to roll out nationwide by the end of 2023. CEO and co-founder Jazz Hampton joined NBCLX to...

DC.. Mayor Bowser continues to push her budget proposal for more police. She highlighted efforts to encourage high school graduates and others to join. As News4’s Mark Segraves reports, not every D.C. Council member supports Bowser’s plan.

A wave of police reforms in Virginia has led to more officers being decertified.

Before Brooklyn Center, Minnesota officer Kim Potter drew her gun instead of her Taser and fatally shot Daunte Wright, she pulled him over for expired tags and an air freshener hanging from his vehicle’s mirror. Laws that let officers pull drivers over for hanging items have been criticized for years and subject to a long battle in appellate courts, says...

The police killing of Amir Locke in Minneapolis is drawing scrutiny to no-knock warrants, after police body camera footage showed a SWAT team entering an apartment and shooting Locke, who was under a blanket on the couch. “There isn’t much of an announcement in terms of the time between them entering the premises and then beginning to fire shots,” says...

A viral video showing a Florida police sergeant’s aggressive behavior toward a junior officer when she attempted to deescalate an altercation with a suspect has reignited debate over the progress of police reform. Body camera video of the November incident captured Sunrise Police Sgt. Christopher Pullease putting his hands on the throat of the officer who tried to pull him...

Former Buffalo, New York police officer Cariol Horne is credited with saving a man’s life in 2006, when she intervened to stop a white officer from keeping a Black man in a chokehold during an arrest. Now she’s calling for lawmakers to pass Cariol’s Law, which would protect other cops who intervene when an officer’s use of force goes over...

President Joe Biden is planning to sign executive actions on police reform as early as this month, three people familiar with the plans said, as his administration seeks to unilaterally jumpstart an issue that’s a top priority for a key constituency.

Some local politicians said they would cut funds allocated toward policing to boost social services. But a year later, those budgets have been restored or are even bigger

Almost a year and a half later, no one, it seems, is happy. Not even the councilor who proposed the resolution.

“I do think that people were on the other side because of disinformation…the other thing is, people cannot sometimes imagine something different. We are stuck with these paradigms about ‘police keep us safe'” but many Black Americans do not feel safe around the police. Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the civil rights organization The Advancement Project, unpacks how Minneapolis...