Police

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions after two…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed Black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with…

 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 19-year-old Black man who died after being shot by a White police officer was unarmed, the Madison police chief said…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government’s withering report on the Ferguson Police Department issued a stern mandate to city leaders: Reform your law-enforcement practices…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department cleared a White former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black 18-year-old on Wednesday,…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state senator who sponsored Missouri’s new public safety director when he was appointed amid the fallout from the Ferguson…

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The city of Ferguson is attracting a large pool of applicants to police jobs, including minority candidates seeking the position left…

NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two city police officers were arrested Thursday and accused of knocking a man off a scooter and beating him so severely that…

*Tim Loehmann, the Cleveland Police Officer who shot and killed 12-yr old Tamir Rice and his partner Frank Garmback each have  storied police histories. Earlier this year, Officer Garmback  was involved in an excessive force lawsuit which settled for $100k. Officer Loehmann was described by high-ranking officials on the  Independence Police Department (where he previously […]