Groups like the Loop and DanceSafe test drugs like Ecstasy and warn users of high dosages and adulterants, but federal legislation from the early 2000s has live music promoters wary of their brand of harm reduction.
Jurors were barred from hearing about the eight civil rights lawsuits against Detective Jeremiah Williams.
A onetime gang liaison for the Baltimore Police Department writes that its database is racist and error-ridden.
Earl McNeil’s family is demanding answers from the National City, California, police department.
Advocacy group demands an end to traffic checkpoints concentrated in Black and Latinx areas.
“Jail is not a country club,” the Bristol County sheriff said. “That’s why once you’ve done time in the Bristol County House of Corrections, you won’t want to come back.”
A new lawsuit says Riverside County’s probation officers threaten to prosecute kids for ‘pre-delinquent’ behavior.
Lawrence Parrish faces charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and remains jailed on $500,000 bond even though the Austin police admitted he never shot at them.
A former Baltimore Police officer says that a plan to flood the streets with local and federal law enforcement is likely to yield more of the same ineffective ‘broken windows’-style arrests.
A Pennsylvania hate crime statute is being used by law enforcement to punish angry arrestees.
The solution to problems like unsolved homicides, especially in communities of color, cannot be reinvestment in institutions that wage violence against them.
The King County Sheriff’s Office told reporters Tommy Le had a knife. He was actually holding a pen.
Surveillance video sheds some light on the police raid that killed Yang Song last year while, advocates say, the raids continue.
From local charities, to the editorial pages, to city politicians, New Orleans strip clubs were blamed for human trafficking, leading to abusive police raids – harming the dancers they claimed they were protecting, and pushing the dancers to fight back.
In the ‘fentanyl’ bust at a ‘narcotics house,’ no opioids were seized at all.
On Sept. 6, 2017, then-Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett penned a letter describing, in excruciating detail, how Las Vegas police officers physically assaulted him while investigating shots fired in the area of the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight.
Across the country, police departments have chronically failed to investigate rape cases, leaving rape kits — the physical evidence collected from a rape victim’s body — untested. Unfortunately, a false narrative has taken hold around the concept of a rape kit backlog.
Her former partner assaulted her in her home. When the police arrived, she was arrested and he walked free.
