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Audit Finds Connecticut State Police Falsified Traffic Stop Data
Jul 3 2023 // Hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing reports on the race and ethnicity of pulled-over motorists, according to an audit released...
Atlanta Police Motorcycles Burned in Arson Attack
Jul 3 2023 // Atlanta Police Department motorcycles were damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside a training facility early Saturday, officials said. The Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a...
Family of Ohio Black Man Killed by Police Allege Excessive Force
Jul 3 2023 // The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and racism” within...
Florida Police: Theft Ring Targeted Luxury Cars Using Fake VINs, Phony Insurance
Jun 29 2023 // Florida law enforcement pushed back this week against a nationwide surge in auto thefts, announcing that 23 people were arrested for their alleged participation in a crime ring that forged vehicle identification numbers...
High Court: Police in California Aren’t Immune From Certain Misconduct Suits
Jun 26 2023 // Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law...
TransUnion: Police Gave Out Fewer Tickets as Highway Death Rate Climbed
Jun 26 2023 // At the same time as traffic fatalities increased and motorists’ driving habits deteriorated, law enforcement officers were issuing fewer citations for traffic violations, data analytics company TransUnion says in a...
7th Circuit: Insurer Must Defend Firm Sued for Selling Facial Recognition Program to Chicago Police
Jun 20 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Justice Department Accuses Minneapolis Police of Systematic Discrimination After George Floyd’s Killing
Jun 19 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Justice Department alleged Friday that Minneapolis police have systematically discriminated against Black and Native American people for years and often violated constitutional rights following...
Family of Ohio Black Man Killed by Police Sue Officers, City, Alleging Excessive Force
Jun 19 2023 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) – The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and...
Insurer Must Defend Firm Sued for Selling Facial Recognition Program to Police
Jun 16 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Delaware County, Police Seek Dismissal of Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jun 8 2023 // Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule in their favor in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The family of Lymond Moses is...
Children Rescued from Burning Car While Florida Mom was Shoplifting, Police Say
Jun 7 2023 // Shoppers at a Florida mall managed to pull two children out of a burning car after their mother left them alone while she shoplifted, police said. The vehicle caught fire May 26 outside the Oviedo Mall, just northeast of...
Massachusetts City Faces Lawsuit Alleging Police Misconduct at George Floyd Protest
Jun 6 2023 // Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a June 2020 protest in Massachusetts’ second-largest city over the killing of George...
Vermont City Reaches Settlement Over Police Use of Force
Jun 5 2023 // The Vermont city of Burlington announced Friday that it has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shoved by a police officer, fell backward and hit his head on a wall, knocking him...
Police Departments Now Offering Steering-Wheel Locks for Vulnerable Kias, Hyundais
May 30 2023 // While dealers and manufacturers are dealing with the sharp rise in thefts of Kia and Hyundai automobiles, police departments around the South and Midwest have begun offering free steering-wheel locks for owners of the...
No Way to Police All Cryptocurrency Fraud, CFTC Commissioner Says
May 25 2023 // A top U.S. regulator said on Tuesday there is no way to police all cryptocurrency fraud because there is so much, though her agency is working on several big cases. Christy Goldsmith Romero, one of five commissioners at...
Minneapolis to Pay $700K Settlement With Family Members Detained While Police Killed Their Father
May 24 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a $700,000 settlement with family members who were locked inside two squad cars when police killed their father after officers refused their offers to try and...
Questions Raised Over Virginia State Police Being Allowed to Investigate Itself
May 23 2023 // Late last year, with the Virginia State Police under scrutiny after authorities said a former trooper kidnapped a 15-year-old California girl and killed three members of her family, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced he had...
Police Seeks Witnesses to Crash That Killed 4 When SUV Rear-Ended Tractor-Trailer
May 16 2023 // Connecticut state police are seeking witnesses as investigators try to determine the cause of a crash that killed four people on Interstate 95 in Stamford. All four victims were in an SUV that rear-ended a tractor-trailer...
California Paying $24M for Man’s Death in Police Custody
May 12 2023 // California will pay a $24 million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in police custody after screaming “I can’t breathe” as multiple officers restrained him while trying to take a...
