According to the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, sexual misconduct is the second most common form of police misconduct after excessive force.
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A history of police misconduct Since the summer of 2017, Baltimore City State's Attorney Mosby's Office has been investigating three separate body-worn camera incidents for police misconduct.
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None of the closed investigations found evidence of police misconduct.
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The case was dismissed for "suspected police misconduct," Levi said.
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Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj launched an investigation into police misconduct.
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That inquiry presumably would include reviewing accusations of police misconduct.
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Lynch directs the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project.
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The lead detective was ousted over allegations of police misconduct.
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He called for federal laws that would make police misconduct illegal.
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Body cameras have been promoted as a solution to police misconduct.
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Such an investigation presumably would include reviewing accusations of police misconduct.
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"This is a serious allegation of police misconduct," Commissioner Davis said.
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There have been widespread allegations of police misconduct during the protests.
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Trump's federal bureaucracy will largely ignore climate change and police misconduct.
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Police misconduct will not be tolerated anywhere in the City of Chicago.
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Some other states have recently moved to expand transparency about police misconduct.
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The department also said it would investigate any allegations of police misconduct.
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The case was dismissed this week for "suspected police misconduct," Levi said.
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Burglaries, robberies and murders are down, as are complaints of police misconduct.
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Khan worked on discrimination cases, often involving employment issues and police misconduct.
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Feature Body cameras have been promoted as a solution to police misconduct.
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That case, and others involving police misconduct, hung over Ms. Kirkpatrick's tenure.
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TAVERNISE: It's possible that what happened to Nook was not police misconduct.
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Sexual misconduct is the second most commonly reported form of police misconduct.
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As a victim of police misconduct I recognize the need for the protest.
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But police misconduct in the city goes beyond the string of recent incidents.
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Nor did Rosenstein ever doubt the need to crack down on police misconduct.
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"We spent a fair amount of time on police misconduct cases," said Dunne.
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Most of the time, I witness police misconduct like many other Americans: secondhand.
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"I don't know if Emanuel gives a damn about police misconduct," Moskos said.
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It was a story of police misconduct in the era after Freddie Gray.
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That document recognizes that prosecutors play a critical role in deterring police misconduct.
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That document recognizes that prosecutors play a critical role in deterring police misconduct.
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Congress does not have anything like an HR department that can police misconduct.
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The warehouse is another chapter in a long history of Chicago's brutal police misconduct.
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He was forced to forfeit 10 vacation days, according to a police misconduct database.
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The police misconduct in this parish is interesting in that it's mostly civil lawsuits.
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Stop The Killing posts videos of police misconduct that he receives from the community.
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Given Chicago's storied history of police misconduct, citizens paid keen attention to this case.
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Brafman argued the case was "irreparably tainted by police misconduct" and wanted it dismissed.
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Newsrooms throughout California — 33 so far — are working together to publish police misconduct records.
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In cases of alleged police misconduct, state laws offer more broad authority to bring charges.
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The filing makes other allegations about police misconduct, ethical missteps by prosecutors, and evidence tampering.
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Two members of Copwatch, an organization which observes and documents police misconduct, were also detained.
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Bonds also wrapped political-sounding words about police misconduct around threats posted to social media.
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It's an important thing he did in terms of shining the light on police misconduct.
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A more transparent and independent process for evaluating police misconduct will shore up community trust.
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And the spying wasn't the only allegation of prosecutorial and police misconduct dogging the case.
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Think about when we have cases of police misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct in the criminal realm.
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The same feature has led to multiple officers unwittingly filming themselves during acts of police misconduct.
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Tuggle is also asking witnesses to contact the Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates police misconduct.
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Since 2004, Chicago has spent more than $500 million to settle cases of alleged police misconduct.
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"You can't run for president and not talk about police misconduct and police brutality," Brooks said.
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The infamous movie mogul's lawyers have asked for the charges to be dismissed, citing police misconduct.
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His dissent, over 100 pages long, points to Cooper's possible innocence and to systematic police misconduct.
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The episode led to widespread public outrage and congressional hearings on how to address police misconduct.
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In practice, however, civilian review boards have proven to be an ineffectual check against police misconduct.
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Complaints of police misconduct were being reviewed, but intimidation tactics would not be tolerated, Krewson said.
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But in 2013, the city paid $152 million as a result of claims of police misconduct.
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A key piece of evidence revealing police misconduct has triggered both public outrage and official investigations.
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Santana's video is just one example of a citizen using a smartphone to capture alleged police misconduct.
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But if police misconduct were revealed to the defense, the defendant might decide to fight the charges.
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More often than not, he says, the act of bearing witness with technology can deter police misconduct.
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They reckon the drop was caused by a reduction in bogus complaints as well as police misconduct.
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One of them was the nephew of the church's pastor, who demanded a meeting about police misconduct.
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The one area that is sort of a mystery is whether there was any genuine police misconduct.
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The deaths have led to protests nationwide about allegations of police misconduct in cases involving black men.
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"This is historic for Chicago and historic for these kinds of police misconduct cases," Janette Wilson said.
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The allegations of police misconduct echo what other migrants and local associations representatives told Reuters last month.
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The move — typically done to protest police misconduct and social injustice — has been repeatedly slammed by Trump.
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As soon as Sessions took office, he all but withdrew from the business of investigating police misconduct.
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Mr. Saenz said that transgender people, especially transgender women of color, were particularly vulnerable to police misconduct.
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They had to drop one accuser, and the lead detective was ousted over allegations of police misconduct.
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Along the way, one accuser had to be dropped from the case amid allegations of police misconduct.
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For years, citizens have used smartphones to monitor their neighborhoods, especially instances of police misconduct or abuse.
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The hard truth is that police misconduct is a deep-seated problem in many of our cities.
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Since 2004, Chicago had quietly approved more than five hundred million dollars in settlements for police misconduct.
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She also urged the city to review its policies for producing discovery and investigating police misconduct claims.
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Garner's oldest daughter, Erica, became a prominent activist and outspoken critic of police misconduct after her father's death.
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Chinese-American activists organized their own rallies after his conviction, claiming Liang was a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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The case has raised suspicions that the city's Law Department itself has been soft-pedaling police misconduct cases.
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Meanwhile, Chinese-American activists organized their own protests, claiming Liang was serving as a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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CCRB posted a photo of staff members on Friday, reminding citizens to report potential instances of police misconduct.
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Liang's conviction, meanwhile, sparked outcry among Chinese-American activists who said he was a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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One, there is now some evidence that when all eyes are on police misconduct, crime may edge up.
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Some people had presumed that more videos would hand juries clear-cut answers to accusations of police misconduct.
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They were introduced with the intention of discouraging police misconduct and to protect officers from unfounded civil complaints.
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Harris' criminal justice plan includes increased investigations into police misconduct and support of legislation to end racial profiling.
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The database has the potential to transform the way the public thinks about police misconduct and criminal activity.
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Evidence shows, however, that Snell's death was brought on by his own criminal behavior and not police misconduct.
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Still, the report does suggest the belief that body cameras will significantly alter police misconduct might be misplaced.
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Deborah Levi, who tracks police misconduct for the public defender's office, showed the video to prosecutors last week.
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The department has been under federal monitoring since 2003 as part of a settlement in a police misconduct case.
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The city has already paid out more than $670 million in police misconduct cases over the past 15 years.
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We have to honor both the ones who stood up for civil rights and those killed by police misconduct.
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The alleged police misconduct has weighed heavily on the city coffers, including $22015 million in court settlements approved Wednesday.
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Every time I see a story [about police misconduct], it creates a touchstone to an aspect of my life.
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Sanders wants to ban for-profit prisons, abolish the death penalty and tighten rules and penalties for police misconduct.
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The state's attorney, who often deals with cases of police misconduct, was obliterated in her reelection attempt months later.
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"There's always been pockets of police misconduct around the country and we have to take that seriously," he continued.
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However, it only breaks the seal on the most egregious forms of police misconduct — sexual assault, murder, and dishonesty.
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"There is no indication that this unlawful stop was part of any systemic or recurrent police misconduct," he wrote.
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They're victims of the drug trade, police misconduct, and a total lack of mental-health and drug-addiction resources.
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The case also put the city at the center of the national conversation about police misconduct and excessive force.
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The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project analyzed 210,215 criminal cases against police officers from April 2009 through December 2010.
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Leadership even went so far as to formally denounce San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's protest of police misconduct.
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But on Monday, the impetus for the U.S. marches span from immigrants' rights to LGBT awareness to police misconduct.
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NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem to protest police misconduct and racial injustice last season.
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She told CNN's Don Lemon she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race.
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Most (many officers included) have embraced the technology for its potential to shed light on cases of police misconduct.
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Newark's mayor, Ras J. Baraka, had been a vocal critic of police misconduct while serving on the City Council.
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The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project analyzed 3,238 criminal cases against police officers from April 2009 through December 2010.
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The department has asked the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which typically investigates police misconduct, to investigate, he said.
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In 2017, the four men filed a lawsuit citing police misconduct and civil rights violations in the original case.
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They targeted common types of police misconduct and designed consent decrees to be templates for reform at other departments.
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Then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the movement in 2016 to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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David B. Shapiro, a lawyer who represents victims of police misconduct, is preparing for a possible class action suit.
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"This isn't just about a slight difference in emphasis or ideology — [the failure to open any new cases] is a complete abdication of the responsibility to enforce the statute to prevent systemic police misconduct," said Christy Lopez, who served as the section's deputy chief under Obama and handled many police misconduct cases.
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Chicago spent nearly $642 million on alleged police misconduct from 2004 through 2015, according to a Better Government Association analysis.
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He has seen the evolution and growth of public attention on police misconduct, which he credits to this mass documentation.
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Chief Acevedo said he was disturbed that King and other people are still hesitant to come forward about police misconduct.
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There are other longstanding practices within police departments that make accountability for police misconduct, abuse, and fatal shootings a challenge.
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At the packed meetings, many expressed concerns about racism on the force and slow and ineffective discipline after police misconduct.
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Colin Kaepernick, formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, started the movement last season to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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Meanwhile, taxpayers, who foot the bill for police misconduct, have paid out more than $172 million in taser-related lawsuits.
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"At that time, I didn't know if Michael Brown did something wrong, or if there was police misconduct," he says.
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She said she plans to file a report for police misconduct against the officers for the way they arrested her.
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They are expected to outline how federal antitrust standards could be changed to better police misconduct in the digital marketplace.
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The movement was started last season by former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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Public anger at widespread police misconduct was a leading cause of the January 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
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Ineffectual boards can provide the local power brokers with political cover against media scrutiny and community resentment over police misconduct.
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In October 2018, the charge based on Ms. Evans collapsed when contradictory accounts and alleged police misconduct came to light.
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The attorney general's comments drew criticism that he was conflating objections to police misconduct with a disrespect for the police.
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The movement was started in 2016 by former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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Police misconduct — and seeming impunity — has drawn increasing scrutiny in the United States since the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Its petition cited 407 allegations that it said were indicative of police misconduct, most from Mr. Booker's time as mayor.
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Chicago, by comparison, paid a whopping $210 million in police misconduct, which includes polite brutality, lawsuits from 2012 to 2015.
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The city of Chicago has already paid out more than $670 million in police misconduct cases over the past 15 years.
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In addition to the human toll, the alleged police misconduct has weighed heavily on the city coffers in terms of settlements.
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Just as troubling, six of the 75 police departments have policies specifically allowing citizens filing police misconduct complaints to review footage.
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City officials, county prosecutors, and federal authorities failed to adequately address mounting complaints of police misconduct over a span of decades.
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But Chicago continues to be under the microscope as more videos of police misconduct continue to stream out of the city.
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A lawyer for Logan's family said Buttigieg is at fault for the shooting for failing to stop police misconduct, reports ABC.
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Swedish police acknowledged the shooting and said an investigation into possible police misconduct has been initiated, but gave no further details.
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She made a point of asking each prosecutor she met how his or her office handled the investigation of police misconduct.
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But one fact was clear: When a new video showing what appears to be police misconduct surfaces, it affects officers everywhere.
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She told CNN's Don Lemon in 2014 she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race.
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Since then, Trump has called for an end to the demonstrations, which were intended to protest racial inequality and police misconduct.
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It hits me every time I write another story on extrajudicial murder, or police misconduct, or a Trayvon Martin Halloween costume.
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Compare this to the country as a whole, where a third of cases involved police misconduct, according to the same analysis.
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It is no accident that some of the most high-profile cases of police misconduct have involved video and audio records.
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Under President Barack Obama, it made the agreements a vital part of its aggressive approach to addressing allegations of police misconduct.
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Activists Ask What N.F.L. Protests Are All AboutThose seeking change wonder whether issues of racism and police misconduct will be forgotten.
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The ad also demanded that authorities drop criminal charges against protesters and establish an independent commission to investigate possible police misconduct.
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She also urged her fellow black Americans to "be smart," stand together as a community, and "speak up" about police misconduct.
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The findings in the Buzzfeed story underscore the need to amend the state law and allow for greater transparency regarding police misconduct.
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Activists in New York and families of those affected by police misconduct have also continued to push for changes to the law.
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One of the most common defenses for instances of police misconduct or brutality is that the few bad officers don't represent everyone.
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Internal affairs officers present the case against the accused officers, who are typically represented by defense attorneys specializing in police misconduct cases.
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" He added, though, that there has "always been pockets of police misconduct around the country, and we have to take that seriously.
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This is incredibly important everywhere, but especially in Chicago—where there are well-documented problems with segregation, racial tension, and police misconduct.
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Arpaio has been accused of police misconduct, including abuse of power, unlawful enforcement of immigration laws and failure to investigate sex crimes.
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He likes to say that he wrote his campaign platform—eliminate cash bail, address police misconduct, end mass incarceration—on a napkin.
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The report calls for dissolving the Independent Police Review Authority, which is charged with overseeing the most serious claims of police misconduct.
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The report also concluded that police officials did not take bias allegations as seriously as they do other kinds of police misconduct.
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The texts and testimony provided unsettling new details in one of the most wrenching cases of suspected police misconduct in New York.
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The episode became one more example of police tactics that have infuriated citizens, driving calls for an independent investigation into police misconduct.
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The availability of video -- either shot by police-issued cameras or civilians -- often hasn't been enough to convince juries of police misconduct.
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If they shared their stories, the Justice Department might bring its power and resources to bear on police misconduct in Ville Platte.
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Without these investigations, the federal government isn't going to have as much of a role in ending police misconduct and discriminatory practices.
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Tim Maloney, a Maryland lawyer who has handled police misconduct cases, said the seriousness of the charge made Goodson's case crucial for prosecutors.
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Chicago has paid more than $500 million in police misconduct payments since 2004, said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's law department.
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The task force called McDonald's shooting the "tipping point" that brought new focus to a long history of complaints about Chicago police misconduct.
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The 1173-page suit contains dozens of harrowing examples of police misconduct gathered from the Department of Justice's investigation that followed Brown's death.
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A gripping look inside the efforts by the Oakland Police Department to rebound and gain the community's trust after police misconduct and scandals.
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But they are now being embraced as a potential tool for combating police misconduct by activist groups and a growing number of prosecutors.
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Alongside the city's culture of police misconduct, there has grown a counteracting network of activists, attorneys, community organizers, journalists and retired black cops.
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Paired with publicly-available police misconduct and exoneration data, we hope that these letters will unearth clusters of wrongful conviction cases for investigation.
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Two developments last week underlined the need for the firm federal oversight of police misconduct from which Attorney General Jeff Sessions had retreated.
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In New York City, for example, less than 5 percent of all felony arrests that are prosecuted have hearings to contest police misconduct.
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"Sessions is a threat to our democracy, working to reverse civil rights gains in college admission, police misconduct, & [criminal] justice reform," she continued.
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The panel had been advising on a report due in January on the allegations of police misconduct, but raised its concerns last month.
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Trump has also sparred with black athletes, particularly NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police misconduct.
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The process, long and byzantine as it is, is the easiest path to holding an officer accountable for many victims of police misconduct.
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Generations of Chicago mayors have struggled to tamp down violence and root out police misconduct, sometimes making progress but never ending the problems.
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"The big frustration of IPOA is that the police do not share information" critical to investigations into police misconduct, one of the sources said.
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In addition, murder cases where a black defendant was wrongfully convicted were 22% more likely to involve police misconduct than those involving white defendants.
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But it's all too frequent that just when body camera footage is most needed, it's not available — through mechanical error, police misconduct, or both.
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In March, he sent a memorandum to Justice Department leadership and U.S. attorneys nationwide, all but disavowing his own authority to prosecute police misconduct.
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They accuse her of not being aggressive enough in prosecuting police misconduct in cases that have not gripped the city as Mr. Gray's has.
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The Better Government Association, a local watchdog group, found that since 2004 Chicago has paid more than $500 million to settle police misconduct cases.
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Housed by the Invisible Institute, the database contains almost 250,203 allegations of police misconduct, with the oldest electronic disciplinary records dating back to 1967.
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This applies across the US. The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project analyzed 3,238 criminal cases against police officers from April 2009 through December 2010.
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Nor has the technology been able to stop a police misconduct problem that is as deep and intractable as gun violence on the street.
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His platform includes reducing mass incarceration, diverting mentally ill and drug addicted offenders away from prison, being tougher on police misconduct and closing jails.
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Protesters are calling for greater democratic freedoms, an independent inquiry into police misconduct and the formal withdrawal of an extradition bill to the mainland.
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There's a wealth of information in the report, but among the more intriguing facets is its breakdown of how these shows justify police misconduct.
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Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, wants to ban for-profit prisons, abolish the death penalty and tighten rules and penalties for police misconduct.
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Aside from denying individualized justice and driving mass punishment, they usurp the role of the jury, coerce guilty pleas and, yes, insulate police misconduct.
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"It's time for the city to come clean on police misconduct," said Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director for the civil liberties group.
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Now a nonprofit group is making public thousands of lawsuits by people who say they are victims of police misconduct in New York City.
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The department has faced allegations of corruption and is operating under federal oversight because of unconstitutional searches and police misconduct aimed at African-Americans.
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Angie's family also filed a complaint with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent city agency tasked with investigating New Yorkers' complaints about police misconduct.
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Futterman has remained a bulldog on police issues, seeking the release of police misconduct reports and other documents -- much to the ire of the department.
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Artist Michelle Cortese helped create a pair of chunky earrings with audio and video recording capabilities, in order to record police misconduct or other altercations.
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In the docs, prosecutors shoot down any claim of police misconduct ... saying Cuba's attorneys misrepresented the police report and NYPD's initial investigation of the case.
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Defendants and victims of police misconduct aren't the only ones harmed by the decision to keep officers on the force after serious offenses like lying.
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Right now, Baltimore and communities across the country call out for the prosecution of police misconduct after having too many incidents brushed aside by authorities.
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A Chicago agency that reviews police misconduct cases has just released a series of video clips related to dozens of shooting investigations in the city.
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The department was closer to complying with the 51 reforms it was ordered by a court to implement in 2003, following a police misconduct settlement.
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Over the past few years, the American Civil Liberties Union built an app that would allow people to report police misconduct directly to the organization.
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At a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Arizona last year, Sessions vowed to make sure the department addresses police misconduct.
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In many police misconduct cases, the victims and their families are people of limited means for whom a six-figure check could be life-changing.
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Over the past few years, Black Lives Matter activists have prompted an unprecedented level of media and political scrutiny on questions related to police misconduct.
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Eric Garner case: Texts and court testimony offered unsettling new details about one of the most wrenching cases of suspected police misconduct in New York.
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It did not matter that surveillance video demonstrated otherwise, or that an inquiry by the Queens district attorney's office found no evidence of police misconduct.
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"We take allegations of unnecessary force very seriously, and we will not tolerate police misconduct," Albuquerque Police Department Chief Mike Geier said in a statement.
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As Baltimore tried to start anew, a corruption trial exposed the startling depths of police misconduct and delivered a fresh blow to the community's trust.
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The bill has since been withdrawn, but the protests have expanded to include calls for greater democracy and an inquiry into accusations of police misconduct.
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He held hearings to spotlight police misconduct and also supported legislation urging a study of the possibility of offering reparations to the descendants of slaves.
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Pattern and practice investigations in recent years have helped shed light on routine police misconduct in some departments, like in Ferguson, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio.
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State prosecutors or police have been accused in the past of attempting to cover up instances of police misconduct or brutality by withholding video footage.
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Meanwhile, the political reality is that hiring more police officers is popular — including with the communities that are most concerned about the problem of police misconduct.
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Rapinoe, 33, declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America.
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The reforms widely varied: limiting use of force, prohibiting racial profiling, dictating the implementation of body cameras, improving accountability in cases of police misconduct, and more.
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In February 2016, the DOJ sued Ferguson over police misconduct With new officials in place, you might think the tension in Ferguson would start to dissolve.
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Once connected, potential leakers select a different area: police surveillance, fracking protests, undercover policing, police misconduct, or information on Prevent, the UK government's counter-radicalisation program.
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Federal involvement should only take place in the most obvious instances of malfeasance or police misconduct that city and state officials turn a blind eye to.
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The judge, a former federal prosecutor who tried police misconduct cases for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, has presided over all three trials so far.
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According to the National Police Misconduct Project, only 33 percent of police officers charged in 3,238 criminal cases from April 2009 to December 2010 were convicted.
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"The president, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement," the memo reads.
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Richards believes that referring cases back to the police force for investigation creates an ameliorated picture of police misconduct in cases of stalking and domestic abuse.
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The Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that also investigates reports of police misconduct, also refers complaints about biased policing to the Internal Affairs Bureau.
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The troubled department is operating under a federal consent decree after the government found a pattern of unconstitutional searches and police misconduct that targeted African-Americans.
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For years, the Austin Police Department's contract limited civilian oversight, allowed police misconduct records to basically vanish and kept certain important internal affairs files under seal.
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In particular, we need a public argument clearly tethered to the two big policy questions raised by police misconduct and the broader crime and incarceration debate.
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A Black Lives Matter protest meant to call attention to police misconduct and demand change on an issue with life-or-death consequences is not hobbyism.
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Mr. Kenny, 66, has been under pressure from within his party, Fine Gael, over his handling of a long-running corruption scandal involving Irish police misconduct.
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As policymakers around the country wrestle with the problem of police misconduct, one suggested reform widely favored by community activists has been the civilian review board.
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In November, the OPA released a report, first reported by The Seattle Times on Thursday, detailing the incident and its investigation into allegations of police misconduct.
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"Now white people in France are finding out about police brutality," Widad Kefti, a journalist who has covered police misconduct in the Paris suburbs, told me.
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The standard for bringing a federal civil rights case is much more stringent than that of a typical police misconduct case brought at the state level.
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Allegations of police misconduct have also surfaced in light of several incidences of violence, including the police shooting of an 18-year-old protester on Tuesday.
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Their movement started in opposition to the bill but quickly snowballed into a grassroots, decentralized crusade for universal suffrage and independent inquiries into alleged police misconduct.
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But the movement has remained strong, in an effort to secure democratic reforms in Hong Kong, as well as an independent inquiry into allegations of police misconduct.
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Trump, 73, told The Hill this week that he did not find her protest — which is meant to highlight racial injustice and police misconduct in America — appropriate.
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The bottom line: Bland's death was a catalyst for nationwide protests against police brutality and police misconduct, which many protesters believed to be causes of her death.
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When Kaepernick began to protest the national anthem in order to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America by kneeling, he faced incredible backlash.
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Bringing every police misconduct case to justice can only serve to improve law enforcement's effectiveness in the community and build the public's trust in what they do.
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The shooting was one of several police shootings of unarmed black men across the country in recent years that have heightened concerns about possible police misconduct. 443.
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As a result, the files prosecutors keep on police misconduct have taken on a growing importance in the national debate over fairness in the criminal justice system.
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He painted a profoundly admiring portrait of cops, asking their detractors to consider how it feels to be "unfairly maligned" by hyperbolic cries of pervasive police misconduct.
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As a public defender in Baltimore, I celebrated with my client when an illegal arrest, an unjustified charge or a case involving police misconduct was finally dismissed.
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Chief Johnson would face challenges of rising violence; bruised officer morale; and community relations, particularly with African-Americans, that have been strained by outrage over police misconduct.
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For one, most departments make no promises about when they will release footage, even after high-profile incidents or to people looking to file police misconduct complaints.
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He said the trials highlighted the need — as Ms. Mosby suggested at her news conference on Wednesday — for independent investigators and prosecutors to handle police misconduct cases.
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Add to that the fact that the city of Chicago made payments of nearly $250 million for police misconduct judgments and settlements during the past five years.
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The state's attorney reopened the case in 2016 amid new information about police misconduct and DNA evidence from semen samples taken from Ms. Bridgeman's body and clothing.
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The sideline demonstrations emerged in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police misconduct.
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Defense lawyers will seek to raise police misconduct allegations, including that a sergeant on the case accepted tickets from a lawyer for one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers.
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"Rather than describing a few bad officers, witnesses described a prevalence of police misconduct that shaped their perception of all police," the group wrote in its findings.
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As a result, civil suits against officers are one of the few public, though imperfect, measures that can be used to gauge police misconduct, public defenders said.
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Because some of the uploaded videos could be of police misconduct, he says the "Public Evidence Product" has the potential to augment communities' abilities to hold police accountable.
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The NYPD fiercely guards police misconduct records, citing a controversial state law to deny the public from seeing which officers have been disciplined for lying or other wrongdoing.
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Jimenez, who had been involved in the successful Bazta Arpaio campaign to oust the sheriff known for extreme racial profiling and other alleged police misconduct, she protested outside.
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Mr. Emanuel, who has overseen a city upended since November by anger over police misconduct and shootings of residents, is in deep political trouble, especially among black voters.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot promised to "shine a light" on police misconduct, and said withholding the Inspector General's office reports "only generates mistrust," according to the Associated Press.
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A Connecticut court freed Bobby Johnson, who pleaded guilty to murdering a 70-year-old man during a 2006 robbery, after prosecutors acknowledged police misconduct in his case.
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And surely we can do that without saying or meaning that police misconduct against blacks should go unpunished or that the criminal justice system does not need reforms.
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Investigations into police misconduct were often thwarted by "a code of silence among Chicago police officers ... extending to lying and affirmative efforts to conceal evidence," the report said.
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Justice Sotomayor mocked the majority's claim that Mr Fackrell's misdeed was "isolated" with "no indication that this unlawful stop was part of any systemic or recurrent police misconduct".
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In recent years, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, a city agency that investigates police misconduct, has documented an increase in cases in which police officers give false statements.
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The Baltimore police department used face recognition technology to identify and arrest people who attended the 2015 protests against police misconduct that followed Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore.
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As Kevin Drum, a blogger at Mother Jones, wrote: People and groups have to be free to condemn abortion or police misconduct or anything else — sometimes soberly, sometimes not.
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New York City's police commissioner has been all but absent from a fight he promised to support: changing the state law that keeps police misconduct secret, state lawmakers said.
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Recent court decisions and media reports about police misconduct also highlight our need to ensure that officers are properly vetted and that our constitutional and statutory obligations are met.
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Ballot Question 2: Yes The second ballot proposal would rightfully strengthen the Civilian Complaint Review Board, a semi-independent group that investigates reports of police misconduct against the public.
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He also thanked Philadelphia's District Attorney 's office for helping him find justice, and revealed his plan to help others who have been wrongfully jailed due to police misconduct.
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His record at the Justice Department's civil rights division, fighting on issues like police misconduct, would be a compelling factor for Clinton to do well with African-American voters.
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The shooting of a black man by a white officer sparked days of protests and riots in Ferguson as citizens rallied against what they said was rampant police misconduct.
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Additionally, a recent Baltimore Sun report revealed $5.7 million in payouts by Baltimore City in lawsuits alleging police misconduct since 2011, not including the $6.5 million Gray civil settlement.
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Like Moore, each of them told me stories of false arrests, intimidation, physical violence, doxxing, and illegal confiscation of their phones after filming or sharing videos of police misconduct.
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Surely police misconduct has been a serious problem for a long time, yet the majority of cops are trying the best they can to do a very difficult job.
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The investigation of Tamir's death stretched over 13 months, and was handed from agency to agency, frustrating activists who saw it as a clear-cut case of police misconduct.
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Mr. Taylor, citing police misconduct in Cleveland and across the nation, said he was concerned that by agreeing to house the police, the university was implicitly siding with them.
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Her supporters said the union attacks were motivated by her increased scrutiny on police misconduct, including vacating more than 90 convictions tied to one corrupt former sergeant, Ronald Watts.
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Under the hashtag banner #BlackLivesMatter, activists used social media to organize protests against police misconduct and quickly gained a widely heard voice in the national dialogue over police conduct.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushed for the release of the report to "shine a light" on police misconduct and in an attempt to regain public trust, The Associated Press reported.
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More than 100 newsrooms across the country spent over a year in 2018 and 2019 trying to collect police misconduct records in a nationwide project coordinated by USA TODAY.
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"The right is there, but the enforcement of that right is a more complicated matter," she said, noting that many people who experience police misconduct do not report it.
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The city gave Gray's family a $6.4 million settlement, but many Baltimoreans want to see individual officers held accountable—a rarity in the annals of police misconduct and brutality cases.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill spoke out today against the strict secrecy surrounding police misconduct, vowing to fight for changes to state law.
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Murphy said Williams' "excellent reputation both for probity and for being an aggressive prosecutor for many years ... of police misconduct cases" helped relieve concerns many had about the legal process.
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President Trump indirectly described him as a "son of a bitch," and the right has largely mischaracterized his protest as targeting veterans and the American flag rather than police misconduct.
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According to the report, Harris took no action on memorandums written by her aides in 2005 proposing that her office institute a written policy for disclosing police misconduct to defendants.
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Tamir's death sparked protests against police misconduct in Cleveland, becoming a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and a flashpoint in the national debate about race and policing.
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In the past few years, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of reports of police misconduct, abuses of power and displays of violence—sometimes fatal—against minorities.
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In Baltimore, the justice system has an ugly history of failing to take on police misconduct, but several recent incidents in particular have touched off an uproar in the community.
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Criminal accountability in police misconduct cases begins with a willingness by public prosecutors, who are typically elected, to take on the cops with whom they collaborate daily to build cases.
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In Annapolis this year, she won plaudits for leading a push — with some success — for broad changes in the way police officers are trained and suspected police misconduct is investigated.
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Johnson said on Thursday he would retire after a three-year run marked by a sharp reduction in murders, a federal police misconduct probe and clashes with President Donald Trump.
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The sad fact is that lying has become a regular and entrenched practice when police misconduct occurs, and disciplining or firing officers for engaging in that practice has rarely happened.
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Instagram and Twitter have helped legitimize an industry absent of labor protections, and without access, we're left us at the mercy of government policies, shady management practices, and police misconduct.
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Later that month 17-year-old Filipino Kian delos Santos was shot and killed by police in a case that recently uncovered evidence suggests was a result of police misconduct.
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As part of the settlement, the city agreed to create and finance a review board fellowship geared toward conducting outreach in the neighborhoods with the most complaints of police misconduct.
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As Kevin Drum, a blogger at Mother Jones, previously wrote: People and groups have to be free to condemn abortion or police misconduct or anything else — sometimes soberly, sometimes not.
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A common response to the outcry over police misconduct is to almost immediately blame the victim — he had a criminal record, he didn't listen to the police, and so on.
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The IPRA, the organization tasked with reviewing police misconduct, has up to 60 days to release videos of such incidents, but this time did so in hardly more than a week.
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The release marks another chapter in the dark history of police misconduct at the Chicago Police Department (CPD), which was put on full display in a Police Accountability Task Force report.
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The killing in September was one of a number of police shootings of unarmed black men across the United States in recent years that have heightened concerns about possible police misconduct.
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Police Misconduct ComplaintsImage Source: "Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras"/ The Lab DCResearchers found no "statistically significant" difference between civilian complaints against cops with cams and those without them.
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The killing of Crutcher was one of a number of police shootings of unarmed black men across the United States in recent years that have heightened concerns about possible police misconduct.
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Racial equality and police misconduct are issues that deeply divided the NFL and its fans in 2016 and were seen as a factor in television ratings falling by 8% that season.
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Instead, the officials emphasized their hope that disclosing the videos and other materials from the investigative files would make people in Chicago more confident in the procedures for investigating police misconduct.
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The sideline protests began in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during "The Star-Spangled Banner" at football games to protest racial inequality and police misconduct.
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NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas said Saturday that NFL players protesting police misconduct should kneel after, not during, the national anthem, arguing that kneeling during the anthem is offensive to many.
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Activists who want to keep the police out of Pride events draw a straight line from the Stonewall raid to present-day police misconduct that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.
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As many were quick to point out, Warwick has not been a place with known instances of police misconduct against black people, nor a place where police officers have been assassinated.
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A judge compelled the release of the tape, and the sight of a fleeing black teen shot in the back by a white officer inflamed residents already weary of police misconduct.
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"Courts have generally treated allegations of police misconduct as worthy of public interest," the decision said, refusing to carve out an exception for disclosing the identities of police officers working undercover.
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There has been no accountability on behalf of the South Bend police for their behavior regarding the Boykins scandal and several other episodes of police misconduct that have plagued the city.
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After spending more than a decade with the data, Stinson thinks he was right about police misconduct being a systemic problem, and he thinks there are a couple of important explanations.
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He said that despite his best efforts to abide by the legal process to address police misconduct, he and others in the Bronx feel the system has failed in this case.
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Kevin Drum, a blogger at Mother Jones, eloquently made this point: People and groups have to be free to condemn abortion or police misconduct or anything else — sometimes soberly, sometimes not.
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Recent investigations into alleged police misconduct, including the shooting of Michael Brown and the choking death of Eric Garner, failed to indict the responsible officers, ruling that their actions were self defense.
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The violent confrontation has called new attention to the Baltimore Police Department, which has struggled to address matters of police violence and police misconduct amid a rise in homicides in the city.
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Bernie Sanders Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, would push to enact numerous progressive reforms, including banning for-profit prisons, abolishing the death penalty and tightening rules and penalties for police misconduct.
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The state's attorney's office "continues to maintain that he is guilty and that Mr. Maysonet's statements are not the product of police misconduct," Eric Sussman, first assistant state's attorney, told the court.
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It was an almost fitting end to a uniquely American true crime saga—one complete with the moniker "Golden State Killer"—in this era of unchecked police misconduct and state-sanctioned violence.
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But the name itself generated a backlash from critics who saw it as blaming the protesters in Ferguson for the rising crime and justifying police misconduct in officers' confrontations with the public.
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On balance, this newspaper has not been persuaded that any other device can deter police misconduct; it has supported the so-called Miranda rule, despite misgivings about its consequences in certain cases.
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It would almost read as too clear-cut a case of police misconduct, if it weren't for the fact that far worse transgressions are broadcast nationwide via cellphone footage virtually every day.
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The 56-year-old Oscar winner is the latest Hollywood star to weigh in on the movement started by former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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"What we ought to have in every jurisdiction is a public database of adjudicated acts of [police] misconduct," said Barry Scheck, the acclaimed criminal defense lawyer who co-founded the Innocence Project.
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But really, the story of Shaun Bridges isn't so much a Greek tragedy as it is a collection of bizarre vignettes of ballsy police misconduct, each one more ridiculous than the next.
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Baltimore Baltimore police failed to share more than two-thirds of police misconduct cases with the city's Civilian Review Board from 2013 to 2015, according to an analysis by the Baltimore Sun.
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They should track the outcome of cases by race to flag disparities, findings of prosecutorial and police misconduct, and the number of people who go to jail because they can't pay bail.
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The lawyer had refused to let the plaintiff's lawyer in a police-misconduct lawsuit use the Law Department's phones to call the judge to question a line of inquiry during a deposition.
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In 2015, as prosecutors pushed for greater accountability for police misconduct, Mr. Comey embraced the controversial theory that scrutiny of police officers led to increases in crime — the so-called Ferguson effect.
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After generations of minority communities fruitlessly complaining about police misconduct, video evidence seems to be leading the broader public and officials to realize that there truly is some legitimacy to those complaints.
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The law's main sponsor in the State Senate, Frank Padavan of Queens, who died last year, said three years ago that it was never meant to prevent the disclosure of police misconduct.
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In my 25 years representing victims of police misconduct, I have been able to look behind his thesis to see that the connection is usually quality of training, supervision, professionalism and disciplinary system.
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Zachary W. Carter, the city's corporation counsel, said this week that the decision to settle lawsuits alleging police misconduct "has always been based on an assessment of the evidentiary merit" of each case.
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In recent years, the NYPD has doubled down on its stringent legal interpretation of those laws, even as departments around the country face growing public pressure to be more transparent about police misconduct.
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It's the product of the drug war, specifically the massive drug trade on [Interstate] I-10 in this area, and it's a product of decades of police misconduct stretching back to the 70s.
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That's what Columbia Law Professor Bernard Harcourt told NPR in a 2016 segment on the efficacy of broken-windows policing "We immediately saw a sharp increase in complaints of police misconduct," [said Harcourt].
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe has declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America.
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A top union for the New York Police Department (NYPD) lashed out at the city agency that investigates police misconduct on Saturday, calling it a "disgrace," after it tweeted about the Fourth Amendment.
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Still, the release of the video eight days after a shooting marks a striking turn for a department and a watchdog agency that have long been accused of withholding information about police misconduct.
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The comment was an implicit swipe at Kaepernick, the current NFL free agent who gained notoriety last year for taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police misconduct and social injustice.
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"Communities demanded an end to the secrecy cloaking police misconduct and use of force," Marcus Benigno, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said in a statement last week.
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Some of the same activists demonstrated after the shooting of Ms. Damond, who was white, and suggested that her death might galvanize some white people who had previously been silent about police misconduct.
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The section with the largest drop-off in new cases was Special Litigation, which is responsible for enforcing laws against systemic police misconduct, civil rights violations in jails and prisons, and other matters.
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The judge also denied Mr. Weinstein's request for an evidentiary hearing on allegations of police misconduct, and said that his defense lawyers could address the question of the witnesses' credibility during the trial.
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Despite the Twitter accounts' suspensions last fall, the associated Vine accounts remained active for months with hundreds of videos on each account that recorded anti-gun control messages and videos of police misconduct.
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It provides access to data on federal grants awarded to over 150 law enforcement agencies across the nation, along with relevant demographic data, and, where available, police misconduct complaints, consent decrees and settlements.
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From the start, these prosecutors met fierce criticism from law enforcement and other elected officials when they promised to crack down on police misconduct, prosecute fewer nonviolent crimes and reverse potentially wrongful convictions.
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Among the players whose information was exposed was former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who stirred controversy last year by kneeling during the national anthem to protest police misconduct and racial inequality.
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That's similar to the language that he used during his presidential campaign, when he lamented a "war on police" and defended officers against accusations of police misconduct in high-profile officer-involved shootings.
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" The uneven attention was clear, he noted: "As the nation, Negro and white, trembled with outrage at police brutality in the South, police misconduct in the North was rationalized, tolerated and usually denied.
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When people think about citizen reviews (CRs), they typically think about an independent group of citizens sitting as a citizen review board and investigating individual cases of police misconduct [Class I in Walker's classification].
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New York is one of only three states, along with Delaware and California, that has a law specifically shielding police misconduct records from the public, according to a study conducted by WNYC in 2015.
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"How would the average officer without medical training know the severity or the acute distress Mr. Gray was in?" asked Williams, a former prosecutor who investigated police misconduct cases for the U.S. Justice Department.
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And while it is significant that the former officer was convicted for the death of Botham Jean, accountability for police misconduct is just one aspect of a much larger series of demands for justice.
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HERE&aposS WHAT THEY SHOULD DO While NFL players cite racial injustice and police misconduct as the reasons for their protests, Conway claimed that Trump has, in fact, helped minority communities on the whole.
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Rosenberg's memo says that Trump "condoned police misconduct" by telling a crowd of law enforcement officials Friday that they shouldn't be "too nice" when arresting "thugs," and that the president's comments required a response.
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Of the 92 police officers charged with murder or manslaughter since 2005, only around 35 percent were convicted, according to Phil Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green State University and expert in police misconduct.
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Pew also found that more than nine-in-ten officers see protests against police misconduct as driven primarily or partially by "long-standing bias against the police"—but here, too, most black officers disagree.
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Earlier this week, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office said the footage showed "questionable activity," making it the third body camera video to emerge this month that has raised investigators' concerns about possible police misconduct.
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Safran has plenty of experience dealing with police misconduct: In 2012, he settled the case of Frank Jude, Jr., a biracial man who was brutally beaten by off-duty cops outside of a party.
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"The President, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement," Rosenberg wrote in a message sent to DEA's "Global Distribution" list.
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From workers' rights to LGBT rights, from protecting students with disabilities to protecting the environment, from voting rights to police misconduct, Judge Gorsuch's decade-long record demonstrates he is a judge with an agenda.
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The lawsuit is the first in which the Justice Department has ever brought charges under both the Fair Housing Act and the federal statute that gives the Attorney General authority to punish police misconduct.
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Preliminary findings by the National Registry of Exonerations show nearly three quarters of exonerations in Chicago's Cook County involved police misconduct—and the majority of those wrongly convicted in such cases were black Chicagoans.
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It is a tale that unfortunately never gets old, and it has fresh resonance in the era of Black Lives Matter and renewed attention to issues of police misconduct, wrongful convictions and mass incarceration.
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In promoting videos recorded on the very sort of body-worn cameras that have documented episodes of police misconduct, law enforcement officials say they are trying to use the positive images as a counterbalance.
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They have pledged to: focus on reducing incarceration (especially for nonviolent offenses); crack down on police misconduct; revamp a cash bail system that unfairly imprisons poor people; and to use more alternatives to prison.
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Instead, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, a semi-independent agency that investigates police misconduct, brought the charges of reckless use of a chokehold and intentionally restricting breathing that are being considered against Officer Pantaleo.
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Cooper says that in the four years since her sister's death, her family's fight for justice has shown her how the justice system fails black families seeking convictions in the wake of police misconduct.
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Krewson and Toole said they would conduct an "objective and thorough" investigation into the "troubling and difficult" allegations of police misconduct contained in several complaints and lawsuits against the department's response to the ongoing demonstrations.
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Yes. According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn report, some police departments have established procedures to allow people seeking to file a police misconduct complaint to view body cam footage.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago agency that examines police misconduct will reopen an investigation into the fatal 2014 police shooting of a black teenager that led to demonstrations and a lawsuit, the group said on Thursday.
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"There is a concern that change hasn't happened quickly enough and that they could drag their heels even more," said Dan Handelman, a founding member of CopWatch, a group that documents instances of police misconduct.
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But several of the people briefed on the matter have said that the central focus of the inquiry has been on the fund-raising, and that the questions of police misconduct grew out of that.
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Later, Mr. Kalven turned to investigations of public housing in Chicago, and in 2005 the city tried to force him to give up his notes and other source materials for an article on police misconduct.
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"It's hard to be the second-chance guy when you are separating families, deporting people who have been here without committing a crime, and routinely undermining legal efforts to address police misconduct," Mr. Garin said.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had bought space in the paper to protest the violence being visited upon civil rights demonstrators in the South — in particular, the police misconduct during a protest in Montgomery.
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Although other cases involving claims of police misconduct have ended in mistrials and acquittals, few resonated as widely as this case in North Charleston, where Mr. Slager fired eight shots as Mr. Scott ran away.
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"There's two places I'd never send my kid: Catholic school and Police Explorer programs," said former police officer Phil Stinson, now a criminologist at Bowling Green State University and a national expert in police misconduct.
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Chicago's municipal government -- under Emanuel and former Mayor Richard M. Daley -- has spent nearly $642 million on alleged police misconduct from 2004 through 2015, according to interviews and city records, the Better Government Association analysis reported.
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"The president, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement," the memo from acting DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg read, according to the paper.
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Additionally, cities or jurisdictions that employ police officers are reluctant to take on more liability as civilian recordings raise the stakes for police misconduct, said Jack Lerner, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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Officers were observed during the three months before and three months after body cameras were implemented in DC. The Lab's conclusion: body-worn cameras had no effect on either use-of-force or police misconduct complaints.
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There are still plenty of questions that Harris will have to answer — including how her long record as a prosecutor will be scrutinized by a Democratic base focused on questions of police misconduct and racial inequities.
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"These issues will be front and center over the next few years and you will see an increase in police misconduct," says Tim O'Brien, an attorney formerly with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Pittsburgh.
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"The City received over 22019,000 complaints of police misconduct during the five years preceding our investigation, but fewer than 2 percent were sustained, resulting in no discipline in 98 percent of these complaints," the report found.
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Protestors in Hong Kong are calling for: The complete withdrawal of a bill that would allow extradition to mainland China, which has been suspended, an independent investigation into police misconduct, and waiving charges of those arrested.
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But documentation cuts through "he said, she said" — from domestic violence, to police misconduct, to the personal behavior of Donald Trump — and mitigates the power dynamics that lead people to believe only one side of that.
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"Over the last year, the C.C.R.B. has been disturbingly absent from the public debate about police misconduct and accountability," Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, said on Thursday.
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Protests and complaints of widespread police misconduct rocked Chicago last year after an officer was charged with murder in the 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, and video of the fatal shooting was released.
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James Lynch, a former director of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics and now a professor at the University of Maryland, said there's a simple explanation for why the government doesn't track police misconduct more broadly.
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Black and brown communities have been complaining about police misconduct for generations, but it's only recently that those complaints have been taken seriously by the broader public — in large part because video is more easily available.
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"He skipped over all the stuff that's happened," said Tiana Batiste-Waddell, referring to a history of police misconduct in South Bend, some of which led to officers being fired or found guilty of rights violations.
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The DOJ probe was announced in the wake of several high-profile cases of alleged police misconduct, including the October 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as he walked away from Chicago police officers.
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Soros, together with other wealthy liberal donors and groups, spent millions on would-be prosecutors who favor lower incarceration rates, crackdowns on police misconduct and changes in a bail system that they argue discriminates against the poor.
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As The Chicago Tribune reported this week, this was the second case in less than a year for which Judge Chang ordered a new trial and penalized city lawyers for withholding evidence in a police misconduct case.
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A federal judge blasted the New York Police Department and New York City's attorneys for withholding evidence in a police misconduct lawsuit and failing to investigate allegations that a woman was brutally beaten in a Queens precinct.
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Video Soros reportedly spent over $1.5 million on a political action committee to prop up the San Diego County candidacy of Geneviéve Jones-Wright, who attacked policies "criminalizing poverty" and pledged to form a police misconduct unity.
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In three trials, Judge Williams, who is black and who successfully prosecuted cases of police misconduct for eight years in the justice department of the United States, questioned the assumption that the officers' actions constituted criminal activity.
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The ruling from the bench by Justice Danny K. Chun drew to a close a bizarre interlude that threatened to upend the prominent police misconduct case on the eve of Mr. Liang's sentencing, now scheduled for Tuesday.
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As well as demanding the withdrawal of the extradition bill, protesters want authorities to stop the prosecution of protesters, stop referring to the protesters as rioters, hold an independent inquiry into police misconduct, and allow free elections.
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The vice president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the local police union, claimed those arrested were "here to create havoc," while the ACLU of Massachusetts is now investigating police misconduct in the course of the protests.
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And they welcome the possible advantages of panoptical living, hoping for less crime and less police misconduct, better public health, more exposure of corruption — plus, of course, the chance to see their favorite celebrities in the nude.
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Read more " _____ Jonathan V. Last in The Weekly Standard: "The point is: Changing this culture of institutional indifference to police misconduct is hard and kneeling down during the national anthem isn't going to get the job done.
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The mayor, for whatever reason, claimed to be bound by a legally unnecessary level of restraint that didn't stop other mayors—former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, for one-- from speaking out against alleged police misconduct on their watch.
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This month, Mr. Eades invited civil rights activists from the National Justice Project, a Sydney-based nonprofit legal service, to Perth to teach Indigenous people how smartphones and social media can be used to expose police misconduct.
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While complaints of police misconduct and accusations of police involvement in vigilante killings have become the norm lately in Manila's slums, General dela Rosa says he addresses these accusations by entertaining any case filed against the police.
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Through films and books, the Serpico episode and the Knapp Commission have endured for decades as benchmarks in the city's fight against police misconduct, much to the surprise of some police critics — and of Mr. Armstrong himself.
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Van Dyke is just the third law enforcement officer convicted of an on-duty murder charge since 2005, Philip Stinson, an associate professor of criminology at Bowling Green State University who tracks police misconduct, told VICE News.
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Van Dyke is just the third law enforcement officer convicted of an on-duty murder charge since 22, Philip Stinson, an associate professor of criminology at Bowling Green State University who tracks police misconduct, told VICE News.
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But there are still plenty of issues about how the cameras are used, particularly when it comes to who is able to access body camera footage, with civilians often being barred from viewing incidents of police misconduct.
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At the funeral service for Clark on Thursday, veteran civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton said: "We're going to make Donald Trump and the whole world deal with the issue of police misconduct," referring to the president.
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"We hold our officers to the highest standards of professionalism and any officer not meeting those standards will be held accountable," a St. Louis police department spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in response to the allegations of police misconduct.
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As concerns over police misconduct and use of force have drawn increased national attention in recent years, activists have argued that a key part of the problem is the ability for officers to shield one another from accountability.
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It all began when Shapiro gave Toobin a red-hot, didn't-hear-it-from-me scoop: Simpson's defense planned to play "the race card," focusing largely on a theory of police misconduct, evidence mishandling and extreme racist sentiments.
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"The President, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement," DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg wrote in a message to DEA's "Global Distribution" list Saturday.
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We have long supported the use of police body cameras to help identify police misconduct, but such footage is meaningless if prosecutors continue to rely on these officers, especially if they do so without disclosing their bad acts.
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Where insurance companies pay for the civil judgments from police misconduct lawsuits, legislatures should allow insurance claims to seek compensation from police departments that should have known that the police officer(s) in question would use excessive force.
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The new policy came in response to a series of on-field protests that began in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the Star Spangled Banner to protest racial injustice and police misconduct.
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His arrest and the video of it represent another potential setback for a department that for years has tried to rebuild its image and relationship with Milwaukee's African-American residents after several high-profile cases of police misconduct.
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It is required by a controversial law passed 40 years ago, Section 50-a of the state's civil rights code, which protects officers' personnel records from public view, enshrining the suppression of information around police misconduct as governance.
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This email, as well as several similar letters that prosecutors sent in other cases, were provided to The Times by Cynthia Conti-Cook, a Legal Aid Society lawyer who has been compiling a database of police misconduct allegations.
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"The best test of what the Sessions Justice Department is going to do about police misconduct isn't going to come from individual cases like this," said Samuel Bagenstos, a former senior civil rights prosecutor during the Obama administration.
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"Bernie Sanders, he was there when Dr. King marched on Washington, unafraid to challenge the status quo to end racial profiling, take on police misconduct and take down a system that profits from mass imprisonment," the narrator continues.
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Officer Frascatore's decision means that after nearly two years of delays, he now faces a two-day trial in September, according to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the independent agency that investigates allegations of police misconduct and abuse.
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Read more: Kenya's police forces are extrajudicially killing young men with impunity But Sakwa sees that justice isn't always served and says his work to document police misconduct and publish cases nationally and internationally serves a higher purpose.
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In 2009, I took over a Department of Justice Civil Rights Division that had been decimated under President George W. Bush, and we brought it roaring back to life -- taking on police misconduct, anti-immigrant laws and voter suppression.
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The benefits of police body cams are a myth In the three years since Michael Brown's fatal shooting in Ferguson, police body-worn cameras have been sold to the public as a tool that would primarily deter police misconduct.
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The public service announcement is the first in a series of videos that will be released by "The Responsibility Program" over the next few weeks and this one highlights the story of an NFL-hopeful killed by police misconduct.
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And while many Latinos report racial profiling and allegations of abuse by law enforcement, Barr said at his hearing that he agrees with a Sessions policy that makes it harder for the Justice Department to investigate systemic police misconduct.
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Baltimore's 2015 uprising, in which citizens reacted to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, struck a chord throughout the country and outside its borders as the city responded to a long history of police misconduct and brutality.
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The turnaround of the L has been a bright spot for Mr. Emanuel, who announced last month that he would not seek re-election after a turbulent tenure that included clashes over police misconduct, school closings and street violence.
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"It means that [people] can't look to the federal government any more for ensuring that they can fully participate without fear of voter suppression, and that they can't hold accountable acts of police misconduct and the like," Gupta said.
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The Legal Aid Society took a step on Wednesday toward lifting the veil on allegations of police misconduct by releasing a detailed database that collates and analyzes about 22015,313 lawsuits filed against New York City police officers since 231.
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And while Álamo says the play's autocratic commander is not intended to be a literal symbol for or direct critique of police misconduct, the women have claimed to him that police abuse does occur—though he did not name specifics.
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Of the approximately 96 law enforcement officers charged with murder or manslaughter since 2005, just 34 were convicted on those charges, according to data kept by Phil Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green University and a national expert in police misconduct.
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Soros spent more than $1.5 million in the race, funneling the money to a political action committee that propped up Jones-Wright's candidacy as she pledged to form a police-misconduct unit and supported progressive reform of the criminal justice system.
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In a major policy shift, the NYPD announced Wednesday it planned to begin releasing bare-bones reports of police misconduct, but its lawyers maintained it is unable to provide the public with more detailed disciplinary information due to state secrecy laws.
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In a social climate wracked with protests and angst around disproportionate prison populations and police misconduct, engaging software that is clearly not ready for civil use in law enforcement activities does not serve citizens, and will only lead to further unrest.
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Along with felony review attorneys, the sergeant's evaluation is a critical step in the policing process, a way to make sure officers conduct their investigations properly and make solid cases — one of the first lines of defense against police misconduct.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who faces calls for his resignation over police misconduct, must weigh whether an insider or an outsider is the best choice for police chief to reform a long-troubled department that is under federal investigation.
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His plan includes addressing police and prosecutorial misconduct through the Justice Department by returning to the Obama administration's use of pattern-or-practice investigations and consent decrees to address systemic police misconduct, which have faced more limited use under Trump's administration.
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Even as cops have been absolved of blame in almost all instances, the city has made a practice of settling claims before trial, and Chicago has paid more than $662 million to deal with police misconduct over the past 12 years.
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The F.B.I.'s branding of individuals and groups troubled by racial injustice and police misconduct as dangerous "Black Identity Extremists" echoes and validates the way racist fringe groups on the right, like neo-Nazis or the K.K.K., see these activists.
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He has also faced criticism for his handling of police misconduct cases, including a case involving an officer who was twice disciplined for civil rights violations but not fired, and for not having a police department that reflects South Bend's diversity.
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But Mr. Blake spurned a potential payout from the city for a less orthodox resolution: The city is set to announce on Wednesday that it will create a legal fellowship in Mr. Blake's name within the agency that investigates police misconduct.
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Mr. Rosenberg crossed the White House late last month when he sent an agencywide email saying that the president had improperly "condoned police misconduct" by telling an audience of law enforcement officers not to "be too nice" to criminal suspects.
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The result is not only the virtual loss of the jury trial — today, 95 percent of convictions come from guilty pleas instead of jury verdicts — but also the loss of the only opportunity to confront police misconduct in criminal proceedings.
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To critics, the Louima case showed that police misconduct is a real problem that required a systematic policy solution; to Giuliani, it showed that the system worked, the police were in no need of oversight, and his critics were hysterical.
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The Chicago rapper has kept busy, releasing a mixtape's worth of music, signing to Roc Nation, and getting involved with local political protests surrounding Chicago police misconduct, which is one place we found him last year while filming Noisey Chicago for VICELAND.
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Only 96 sworn law enforcement officers have been charged with murder or manslaughter from an on-duty shooting since the beginning of 2005, according to data compiled by Phil Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green State University and an expert in police misconduct.
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"The web of laws and practices that prevent accountability for police misconduct needs to be taken apart and replaced with concrete solutions to eliminate racial bias in the justice system," Christine Link, executive director of the ACLU's Ohio chapter, said in a statement.
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He has fought for access to police misconduct records for more than a decade and last year won the release of a small data set, which includes citizen complaints for things such as excessive use of force, illegal searches and unlawful arrests.
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe has also declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America — a gesture that Trump has also publicly criticized.
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Throughout the tournament, taking place in France, Rapinoe, 33, has also declined to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with her teammates before each match to raise awareness about police misconduct and racial injustice in America — a gesture that Trump has also publicly criticized.
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" The CCRB — an independent agency which handles complaints about police misconduct, including investigating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints — tweeted the hashtag and a photo of its employees, writing, "If you feel your rights have been violated by an NYPD officer, file a complaint here.
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And because these protections largely hinge on if an officer had a "reasonable" belief that he or others were in danger rather than if a threat was actually expressed, the result is that some police misconduct or excessive force is shielded from prosecution.
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In remarks Friday following the Dallas sniper attack that left five officers dead, she acknowledged she was sending a mixed message in advocating for reform to curb police misconduct while at the same time praising the honor and bravery of police officers.
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"I started out writing for the SF Weekly and still have a bit of a soft spot for alt-weeklies — there aren't many other outlets that will let you write back-to-back features about nail polish and police misconduct," says Kate.
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"Video is often key to determining what has happened in police misconduct cases, and the continued effectiveness of the agency depends upon our investigators' ability to directly access footage relevant to their investigations," the agency's chair, Maya Wiley, said in the report.
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The notion that the feds shouldn't be in the business of telling local police departments what to do matches Attorney General Jeff Sessions' long-held law enforcement philosophy: that police misconduct is usually the fault of individual officers rather than a systematic problem.
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In a court petition filed by SPLC, Duran was said to have published stories on local police shootings, police misconduct incidents, the local police department's relationship with ICE and other stories that could have cast a negative light on local law enforcement.
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They are running to succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), whose contentious two terms in office were marked by the fallout from a recession that pinched the city's middle class, a dramatic spike in crime and local battles over struggling schools and police misconduct.
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His acquittal on seven counts leaves the state without any convictions after three trials, in one of the nation's most closely watched police misconduct cases — and continues to leave open the question of what, exactly, happened to Mr. Gray inside the van.
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As chairman, he sought to transform the moribund agency, which is responsible for taking complaints of police misconduct and recommending disciplinary action to the police commissioner, by increasing its efficiency and acting as a kind of early-warning system for problematic officers.
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The accidental nature of the killing was noted by many on Tuesday when Mr. Liang was sentenced to probation in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, avoiding a prison term in one of the most divisive police misconduct cases in recent city history.
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"Despite overwhelming evidence proving Avery and Dassey's guilt and the utter absence of evidence supporting defendant's accusations of police misconduct, defendants falsely led viewers to the inescapable conclusion that plaintiff and others planted evidence to frame Avery for Halbach's murder," the lawsuit states.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Thursday said he will retire from the second-largest U.S. police force after a three-year run marked by a sharp reduction in murders, a federal police misconduct probe and clashes with President Donald Trump.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The trial of Michael T. Slager, the police officer whose videotaped killing of an unarmed black man staggered a nation already embroiled in a debate about police misconduct and racial bias in law enforcement, ended in a mistrial on Monday.
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Sessions has called for a return to the "war on drugs" menu — more law enforcement, mandatory minimums and long sentences, even the anti-drug D.A.R.E. program — plus a new focus on heavy immigration enforcement and a withdrawal from DOJ attention to police misconduct.
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The case of the three-year-old girl - known to the public by the nickname 'Victoria' - has become a focus for accusations of police misconduct in Myanmar, where the force remains under the control of the army under a transition to democracy.
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There have been widespread complaints from protesters of police misconduct and public satisfaction with a force once held in great respect by the public has fallen to the lowest on record, according to a poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute.
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Jonathan Blanks, who heads the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, said the difference may have to do with the fact that most law enforcement agencies regularly screen their employees for drug use, so fewer officers use drugs than their civilian counterparts.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A plainly confident Hillary Clinton returned to South Carolina on Tuesday night for the first time since her victory in the Nevada caucuses and paid tribute to victims of gun violence and police misconduct as she campaigned before the state's Democratic primary.
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In a 2011 report by the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, only 32.8 percent of the 3,238 criminal cases filed against police officers between January and December 2010 resulted in a conviction — less than half the public conviction rate for criminal charges (68 percent).
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He delved into broad subjects, including police misconduct and medical care ("The Big Blue Line" in 21976 and "In Failing Health," in 21983) and entrepreneurship ("Levi's: The Story of Levi Strauss & Co." in 20173 and "Chrome Colossus: General Motors and Its Times" in 22017).
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It is possible the continued dismissal of police misconduct cases by police departments or the legal system — especially in incidents caught on video — has created a sense of futility, or discouragement, among some people who were first exposed to police violence incidents back in 2014.
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In a 2011 report by the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, only 32.8 percent of the 3,238 criminal cases filed against police officers between January and December 2010 resulted in a conviction — less than half the public conviction rate for criminal charges (68 percent).
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On the line are police misconduct records dating back to 1967, which could potentially be lost due to a contested agreement that calls for the destruction of records after more than five years (or seven years if it is an alleged excessive force complaint).
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Still, Judge Barry G. Williams, a black man who once prosecuted police misconduct cases for the feds, wanted to at least try to hold the trials locally, the idea being that it's essential citizens be tried by their peers in America's criminal justice system.
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However, it said that survey respondents "appeared impressed by some instances in which cases of police misconduct have been handled by the IPOA and justice served", referring to one of the cases where a court sentenced a police officer to jail time for abuse.
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Predictably, there was a recurrence of talk after the killings of five police officers in Dallas late Thursday night that this was the fruit and fault of the Black Lives Matter movement and that cries of police misconduct equal a bounty on police lives.
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Mr. Reed — who declined to say who had been holding the cellphone camera, citing safety concerns — said the wave of public outrage over the manner of Mr. Sterling's death spoke to the power that ordinary people now have to put a spotlight on police misconduct.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police routinely violated the civil rights of people in one of America's largest cities, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report released on Friday, citing excessive force, racially discriminatory conduct and a "code of silence" to thwart investigations into police misconduct.
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" In one of his first public statements as chief, Johnson said that in his three decades on the force, "I've actually never encountered police misconduct," because officers would know better than to commit an offense in front of someone who would "hold them accountable.
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The lawmakers, infuriated over a pair of episodes in which black men were killed by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, are calling for action — legislative and administrative — to tackle "police misconduct and the murders of innocent black Americans," in the words of Rep.
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A coalition that included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also proposed the creation of a civilian board, which would investigate allegations of police misconduct; the proposal will be voted on in November despite efforts by the police to kill the measure.
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Related: Baltimore cop sues prosecutor who charged him in Freddie Gray case ABC News reported that the organizers of Saturday's protest said they were marching to demand better accountability in law enforcement, including the creation of a civilian review board to oversee police misconduct investigations.
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At the same time, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an oversight agency that investigates allegations of police misconduct, has substantiated significantly more complaints each year than it did before the Garner case, finding evidence that 153 officers have used chokeholds since the beginning of 2015.
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A New York City agency that investigates police misconduct has found that the officer who put his arm around the neck of Eric Garner before his death did use a chokehold and restricted Mr. Garner's breathing, a person familiar with the case said on Friday.
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There have been widespread allegations of police misconduct during the protests and public satisfaction with a force once held in great respect by the public has fallen to the lowest on record, according to a poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute.
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There have been widespread allegations of police misconduct during the protests and public satisfaction with a force once held in great respect by the public has fallen to the lowest on record, according to a poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute.
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On Friday — exactly two months later — he met privately with Mr. Sessions, who was confirmed last month as the attorney general, at his Washington office for what Mr. Brooks described as a polite but candid conversation about voter suppression, police misconduct and civil rights.
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Stinson, who is now an associate professor of criminology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a leading expert in the field, has contributed to earlier national efforts to track police misconduct and is the go-to resource for information on police violence.
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Ravelo's mea culpa capped off a week in which two other former Biscayne Park cops, Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, were also sent to prison for their roles in an egregious police misconduct case that reached the tippy-top of the local police department.
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But the report called for changes in a state law that limits public access to police misconduct records so that the NYPD can give the public a fuller picture of how it is handling misconduct, noting that many other states and police departments already do this.
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"The public should interpret this as a snapshot of how some police officers behave — and, perhaps, what they think — when the veil is lifted and the police subculture is exposed," Philip Stinson, a Bowling Green State University criminologist who tracks police misconduct and officer convictions, told CityLab.
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If the best settlements are those in which each side leaves unhappy, then it could be that Mr. Thompson has himself emerged a winner, if a battered one, near the end of the sort of polarizing police misconduct case that can define a district attorney's career.
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"More often than not, when we first meet our clients they tell us in all sincerity that 'it's not about the money,' but in the end, even a jury verdict is a dollar figure," said Andrew Stoll, who has represented several plaintiffs in police misconduct cases.
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The report also said that the city had failed to investigate a majority of the police misconduct cases it was required by law to examine, sometimes because of provisions in the union contract that reinforced a pervasive code of silence that has long existed among officers.
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The last known victim, Necole Jean Guillory, was a witness in a 2002 corruption case involving a sex trafficking ring at the jail and the final episode of Murder In the Bayou shows footage of a then 19-year-old Guillory providing testimony about police misconduct.
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Joanna C. Schwartz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an expert on police misconduct litigation, noted that Ms. Cruise-Gulyas and a few others had their rights recognized only after they went through the trouble of bringing their cases to court.
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Oliver Davis, a black member of the South Bend City Council at the protest, pointed to more than half a dozen incidents since Mr. Buttigieg took office in 2012 of police misconduct, some resulting in fatalities, that Mr. Davis said had shredded trust in the police.
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And at a moment when civil rights advocates are increasingly expanding their focus from police misconduct to the other key forces in the justice system, Vicente's account throws into stark relief the key role of prosecutors in a system that has been revealed to routinely convict the innocent.
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The Chicago Police Department has suspended an officer who was seen stomping on a suspect's head in a video posted to Facebook on Monday, an incident that has also triggered an investigation by the city and renewed outrage over police misconduct after a slew of previous officer-involved incidents.
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Instead of focusing on the uneventful traffic stop, we should understand that the real problem here is that Ayala was punished for using her influence and power to better protect the downtrodden, who are the most likely to be victims of police misconduct and an unfair court system.
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A report found that repeated failures by the city to address police misconduct, including brutality and racial profiling, had contributed to a climate in which, twenty-five years ago this month, the acquittal of the four officers sparked five days of rioting that left more than fifty people dead.
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With the city's Beijing-backed leadership refusing to concede to the protesters' demands for free elections and an independent investigation into allegations of police misconduct, an unmistakable sense of alarm is spreading among both small-business owners and corporate executives who see no way out of the impasse.
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Chicago police under scrutiny for shootings The Justice Department began investigating Chicago police in December 2015 in the wake of several high-profile cases of alleged police misconduct, including the death of McDonald, whose case spurred protests and helped fuel a national conversation about police officers' use of deadly force.
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Meek's case became a major talking point regarding criminal justice reform, race, and police misconduct; in a motion advising the court that they would not be opposing Meek Mill's release on bail, prosecutors noted that the arresting officer in 2008, Reginald Graham—their sole witness—gave false testimony at trial.
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But it's also home to some of the most unjust laws in the nation, which allow police officers and prison guards to commit violence and even murder while remaining insulated from accountability — specifically when it comes to police misconduct and violence against the public they are supposed to protect and serve.
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In fact, he and other wealthy liberal donors are pouring millions of dollars and liberal groups are offering support to would-be prosecutors who favor lower incarceration rates, crackdowns on police misconduct and changes in a bail system that they argue discriminates against the poor, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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While prosecutors in Washington have developed a reputation in the last several years for aggressively investigating systemic police misconduct in cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., they and their counterparts in United States attorney's offices across the country have been more reluctant to charge individual officers with using deadly force.
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The sentence — in one of the most divisive police misconduct cases in recent New York City history — came just moments after the judge took the unusual steps of ruling that the shooting was essentially an accident and reducing the jury's verdict on manslaughter charges to the less severe criminally negligent homicide.
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Related: 'Pacified' Favelas Rise Up in Fatal Protests Over Alleged Police Killings Members of Meu Rio say the strategy is designed to both help them get beyond the administrative brick wall in specific cases and combat the tendency of the authorities to treat police misconduct as a matter of individual transgressions.
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In the end, Mr. Schatzow said, Ms. Mosby "correctly determined" that while there may have been enough evidence to persuade jurors, they would never convince Judge Williams that the officers had committed a crime — despite the judge's history as a lawyer who once prosecuted police misconduct for the Justice Department.
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Since 2005, 109 non-federal law enforcement officers have been charged with murder or manslaughter resulting from an on-duty shooting, and of those, just 41 have been convicted of a crime, according to Phil Stinson, a national expert in police misconduct who teaches criminology at Bowling Green State University.
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King published a blog post headlined , "When the 'victim' you fought for turns out to be the victimizer: Sherita Dixon-Cole and the painful consequences of a false report of sexual assault and police misconduct," in which he backtracks his attacks on the trooper and admits he was duped by Dixon-Cole.
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But Vignarajah also points out a trait of Rosenstein's that's particularly interesting in light of the role he's assumed at the DOJ now — his eagerness to demonstrate that no one, including law enforcement officials themselves, is above the law: Nor did Rosenstein ever doubt the need to crack down on police misconduct.
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The protests against police misconduct related to people of color have all but disappeared from the National Football League during its 100th season, but now a group of current and former players, who are members of the Players Coalition, are rekindling the conversation with an online social media campaign launched Wednesday morning.
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"In a social climate wracked with protests and angst around disproportionate prison populations and police misconduct, engaging software that is clearly not ready for civil use in law enforcement activities does not serve citizens, and will only lead to further unrest," Brian Brackeen the CEO at Kairos wrote in a TechCrunch op-ed.
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Woods' scheduled execution started attracting national attention last month after Birmingham businessman Bart Starr Jr. tipped off the likes of Martin Luther King III and Kim Kardashian and prison reform groups like the Death Penalty Information Center, that the inmate's case had been mishandled thanks to alleged police misconduct and incompetent legal representation.
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The tension between Ms. Gardner and other officials in St. Louis is one of many flashpoints around the country between the traditional law enforcement establishment and a new wave of prosecutors who were elected after promising to rein in police misconduct, send fewer nonviolent offenders to prison and repair relationships with minority communities.
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The tension between Ms. Gardner and other officials in St. Louis is one of many flashpoints around the country between the traditional law enforcement establishment and a new wave of prosecutors who were elected after promising to rein in police misconduct, send fewer nonviolent offenders to prison and repair relationships with minority communities.
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Only 2 percent of complaints against cops leading to punishment The DOJ reports that the City of Chicago received more than 30,000 complaints of police misconduct in the five years that preceded the investigation, but only 2 percent of those complaints were sustained, meaning officers went unpunished 98 percent of the time.
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Video The revelation comes after reports that New York billionaire George Soros has funneled so far nearly $3 million into California's district attorney races, supporting candidates that are in favor of progressive policies, including lower incarceration rates, crackdowns on police misconduct and changes in a bail system that they argue discriminates against the poor.
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The Chicago Police Board, the body that must screen candidates and recommend three possible new police chiefs to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, listened to almost more than an hour of input from mostly black Chicagoans concerned about racism on the force, the high level of police killings and slow and ineffective discipline of police misconduct.
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During the Obama administration, Comey's disagreements with major decisions frequently spilled out in public -- for instance, his opposition to Holder's lenient treatment of David Petraeus, the former general who mishandled classified information and lied to the FBI, and over the department's focus on police misconduct after the shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE is disputing Justice Department reports about police misconduct in Chicago and Ferguson, Mo., according to an ABC News report.
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It's perhaps significant that, in the nineteen-sixties, questions of misconduct were usually tied to the behavior of the police—this magazine ran a three-part piece detailing police misconduct in the once famous "Career Girl Murders" of 1963—while these days we focus on the prosecutors, implicating the system's managers, not simply its laborers.
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"Failing to secure an indictment when a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed, skinny, naked teenager, who the officer outweighed by over 100 pounds, is a failure of will by the district attorney, and calls in to question the entire grand jury process in cases involving police misconduct," Edwards said in a statement.
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Whether we look at the Justice Department's pushing back against consent decrees to rein in police misconduct, Mr. Trump's nearly all white and male judicial nominees, or the Education Department's decision to pull back on investigations of civil rights cases, we see a pattern that devalues the gains that many earned through the ultimate sacrifice.
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"These figures make clear the department is using reconsideration as a tool to thwart the disciplinary process, and it's the victims of police misconduct that bear the brunt of that," said Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, who has strongly opposed the policy since it was proposed.
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What she's been up to as attorney general Much of her time has been spent on issues surrounding police misconduct, including overseeing efforts to reform the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, as well as investigations of police in Chicago and efforts to calm tensions in Baltimore after Freddy Gray's death in police custody.
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READ: White House says looking into Stephon Clark's death is not its job That announcement came after Betty Clark, president of the NAACP, joined Clark's grandmother and other community leaders for a press conference on Monday, where she stressed that district attorneys' close relationship to police departments makes it difficult for investigations into police misconduct to proceed with integrity.
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I think why communities are on fire right now is that they see police misconduct and nobody being held accountable, and they also see or perceive that the blue line of silence kicks in, where even good cops don't want to speak out against the bad cops because—Hold up, let me answer part of what you said.
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"What scares me about this case is that it's a pretty strong signal from the police that prosecutors across the country should be careful about bringing charges when it comes to police misconduct... which most of them already are!" said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor and expert on prosecutors and wrongful convictions at Northeastern University School of Law.
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Of course, American cities are plenty familiar with big cash settlements for police misconduct, and Baltimore is no exception: A 2014 investigation by the Baltimore Sun found that the city shelled out almost $6 million over three years in settlements related to excessive police force; last year it agreed to pay $6.4 million to Gray's family alone.
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Dayvon Love, 28, a co-founder of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a policy organization, says activists aren't coalescing around any of the candidates for mayor because they see many of them — including the African-American candidates — as extensions of the same tired, out-of-touch institutions that failed to address police misconduct in the first place.
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Jamie Kalven and Craig Futterman, the director of a civil rights and police misconduct legal-aid clinic at the University of Chicago, were instrumental in the release of the McDonald video; they recently started a searchable online database of every citizen complaint against the police investigated by IPRA and the police's internal-affairs division between 123 and 2015.
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Methodology: Researchers at the The Action Center on Race and the Economy followed up on a Wall Street Journal story identifying the cost of police misconduct, and used Freedom of Information Act Requests (FOIA) along with documents from local and state governments to calculate how much departments were spending in settlements and interest payments to banks.
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" Andrea J. Ritchie, a New York-based police misconduct attorney and researcher and author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, tells Broadly that any action on this issue is a step in the right direction, but "we need to do much more to keep this from happening in the first place.
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Testifying that they used their training to guide the decisions they made on March 16, 2014, both former officers took the stand in their own defense — a rarity because of the risks it carries, said Douglas Colbert, a professor at the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law who has written extensively about police misconduct.
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So now we're "arguing" (I use the term loosely) about everything from the free-speech rights of pro athletes to whether the national anthem is right-wing political correctness to LeBron James's punditry on the miseducation of Trump voters … and the specific issue that Kaepernick intended to raise, police misconduct, is buried seven layers of controversy deep.
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After hundreds of hours of interviews with police officers, residents and city officials, the civil rights division issued an unsparing set of findings in January, faulting the police department for routinely using excessive force (especially against African-Americans and Latinos), a deficient system for investigating police misconduct and a poor structure of supervision, promotion and training.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE sat down with NAACP leaders at the Justice Department on Friday to discuss voter protections and police misconduct, the group said in a statement.
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Putting a dollar amount on the loss of a family member, while it feels impossibly counterintuitive, depends upon a series of factors, including: the egregiousness of the police misconduct in any particular case; the likelihood that the municipality will not be able to justify the officer's conduct in civil court and just how distastefully the jury will view the officer's actions.
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" For more than four decades, the Supreme Court's so-called Bivens doctrine has allowed injured parties to sue for damages when their rights under the Fourth Amendment have been violated, recognizing that "damages have been regarded as the ordinary remedy for an invasion of personal interests in liberty," and that for victims of police misconduct, "it is damages or nothing.
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The Civilian Complaint Review Board, a city agency that investigates police misconduct, has found that when New York police officers fire Tasers it is usually to subdue unarmed people or those already in police custody, not to stop someone who has put the life of an officer or someone else in peril, according to a draft report obtained by The New York Times.
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"We're talking about one case, a low-level, non-violent offense where an actor played a prank in a city that is grappling with violence, in a city that was known as the false confession capital of the United States, in a city that has paid almost a billion dollars in police misconduct lawsuits over the last decade," she said.
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The comments were an apparent swipe at athletes, such as NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick who gained attention last year when he began kneeling during the national anthem before football games to protest racial injustice and police misconduct against people of color in the U.S. Trump has faced backlash from some NFL players and executives, who have asserted athletes' rights to speak freely.
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State's attorney for Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby — whose tough position on police misconduct in the wake of Freddie Gray's 2015 death in police custody earned her a national spotlight — said that 41 cases have since been dropped, 55 are under review, and the remainder can proceed due to the existence of evidence not linked to the officers, according to the New York Times.
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It's a concern that was also strongly voiced in the wake of revelations about the alleged coverup of the 2014 Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago: that in cases revolving around police misconduct, it can often be difficult—if not impossible— for the public to get fully transparent information about an officer-involved shooting or use of force incident from the departments implicated in these incidents.
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One of the biggest police misconduct cases in recent New York history, a criminal proceeding that riveted the city this winter and was swept up in the national debate about race and law enforcement, was threatened on Wednesday by an unusual and unexpected question: Did one of the jurors, a retired carpenter, hide his father's criminal past in order to be a panelist at the trial?
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"The idea is that these large settlements could deter widespread police misconduct," Kami Chavis-Simmons, a former assistant United States attorney who now directs the criminal justice program at the Wake Forest University School of Law, told the Monitor following the announcement that the city of Baltimore would pay $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray, even before the six officers charged in relation to his death went to trial.
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Strangely enough, a focus on public space violence is what the majority of black voters want: A YouGov poll (deliberately ignored by a number of major African-American media outlets) found 42 percent of black voters identifying community violence as a top priority compared to 36 percent who said it was police misconduct; it was the same split when a majority of respondents said Black Lives Matter should focus more on rising crime rates.
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