Kim Foxx steps into her new position with the Chicago police under a federal probe. She promises to make reforms that will end the sense of hopelessness.
The manslaughter conviction of a Brooklyn woman was overturned Tuesday after the borough’s district attorney’s office investigating the crooked ex-NYPD cop behind her arrest saw issues with the case. Vanessa Gathers has been free from prison since 2007 but the conviction that once marred her record has been removed, according to CBS New York. Gathers, 58, […]
A video has been circulating of police officers in Utica, New York allegedly planting evidence in an African American couple’s car. Utica police have denied that police were planting evidence in the car and claim that another part of the video shows the officer taking a bag from the man. WKTV reports: “Obviously it’s a […]
Questions about the NYPD’s abilty to police itself are being raised after a host of criminal incidents involving city officers were uncovered by outside agencies rather than the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the New York Times reports. See also: NYPD Officers Should Be Fired For Shooting Death Of Sean Bell See also: Harry Belafonte & […]
OAKLAND, Calif.—The City of Oakland will pay $300,000 to a parolee who said an Oakland police officer planted a gun on him. RELATED: Top 9 Black Stand-Up Comedians Assistant City Attorney Barbara Parker tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the Oakland City Council voted 5-3 in a closed session on Tuesday to pay the amount […]
Officer Richard Chrisman of Phoenix, AZ is currently on trial for shooting an unarmed man and his dog. Footage that put him on the Brady List for police officers with questionable integrity recently surfaced. In the footage, he can be seen planting a crack pipe on a mentally challenged homeless woman. Chrisman claims he planted […]
