police reform

Body camera footage captured the sound of a police officer repeatedly asserting that an 11-year-old girl could be charged with creating child sexual abuse images of herself. The child’s parent then took to TikTok with a post that’s since gone viral.

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols.

The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing police from some nonviolent 911 calls and sending behavioral health clinicians.

“Nobody likes bad officers. Bad officers make it really hard for good officers,” said Anthony Bennet, new IG for Prince George’s County. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

Several current and former California police officers are accused of committing civil rights violations and fraud in an effort to get a pay raise and lying on reports to cover up the use of excessive force.

Six former Mississippi law officers, including some who call themselves the “Goon Squad,” plead guilty to state charges Monday for their racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth.

A rogue group of deputies who called themselves “The Goon Squad” burst into the home without a warrant and abused the men before shooting Michael Corey Jenkins.

The charges stem from a July 4 arrest that Northwoods officer Samuel Davis made without informing dispatchers or writing a report, according to the probable cause statement.

The Justice Department has found that Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people.

Three years after the murder of George Floyd, police departments are still tackling calls for reform. Prince George’s County’s police chief told News4’s Darcy Spencer changing policing is only part of the solution.

President Joe Biden on Thursday — the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder — vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability. part of a push to reform policing nationwide and passed in the wake of the police killing of Floyd in 2020 in Minneapolis. Biden has said he supported...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing.

News4’s Erika Gonzalez spoke with Howard University law professor Justin Hansford about police reform three years after the murder of George Floyd.

The parents of a 22-year-old Colorado man killed by a sheriff’s deputy while suffering a mental health crisis will get $19 million from state and local agencies and changes to how officers are trained under a settlement.

Preston Hemphill was fired Feb. 3 for violating policies during the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died in a hospital three days later. Five other officers have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Nichols’ death.

News4’s Mark Segraves explains what happens next.

The Republican-led House passed a resolution that would block a District of Columbia police accountability bill. The 229-189 vote Wednesday to nullify D.C. law further escalates a feud over self-government in the nation’s capital. It’s the third time this year that House Republicans have sought to overturn local D.C. legislation, claiming officials have been soft on crime in the midst...

The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin entered the plea Friday in a Minnesota court before Washington County Judge Sheridan Hawley. Chauvin appeared via Zoom from a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. Chauvin and his now ex-wife were charged with multiple counts...

The investigation began after the killing of Breonna Taylor during the service of a so-called “no knock warrant.”

In court papers late Tuesday, the city said it will pay $21,500 to each of at least 200 protesters who were detained, arrested or met with force by NYPD during a June 4, 2020, protest.