The Portland City Council voted down a controversial budget amendment Tuesday that would have taken $10 million from the new ...

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Chicago’s new police oversight chief has repeatedly wiped out or dramatically scaled back recommendations to fire officers following pushback from the city’s top cop, the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ ...

The letter by Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler on police accountability boards raises valid concerns, but is incomplete and unconstructive (“Sheriff Gahler: Police accountability boards don’t know ...

Independent institutional analysis focused on police training systems, supervisory structures, and constitutional ...

A national organization joins legal team in lawsuit against Topeka police and says officers 'have a plan to kill.' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior to taking office as Mayor in 2018, there wasn’t a single police officer wearing a body camera in Paterson. Now six years ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — After struggling for years to fill its ranks, the work of a long-standing police accountability board may be coming to an end. The Citizens Advisory Board on Police/Community ...

Howard County has two forces overseeing police conduct — the state-mandated Police Accountability Board and a grassroots, community-formed Police Accountability Task Force that aims to hold the ...

For a second year in a row, Washington police accountability advocates have seen their priorities fall flat in Olympia. They entered this year’s session wanting to grant the attorney general stronger ...

A Florida bill that seeks to strip away a level of police accountability has passed in both legislative chambers and is headed to the governor’s desk for consideration. The Florida legislature ...