Law Enforcement & Intelligence
The latest coverage of the law enforcement community and all aspects of the U.S. intelligence.
One of the three officers connected to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor is being fired, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Friday.
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By Kate Brumback - Associated Press
Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to policing.
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By Jonathan Mattise and Rebecca Reynolds Yonker - Associated Press
By Aaron Morrison - Associated Press
By Jim Salter - Associated Press
A white suburban St. Louis police detective who was captured on video apparently hitting a black suspect with a police SUV then kicking and punching the man was charged Wednesday with two counts of assault and armed criminal action.
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Wednesday if Congress does not pass meaningful changes to policing practices in the U.S., then there will be a “stain on our legacy.”
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Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, said President Trump was “very compassionate” during their meeting Tuesday at the White House.
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Senate Republicans offered their ante in the racism and policing debate Wednesday with a bill that would prod law enforcement to curb practices such as chokeholds and increase reporting on bad cops, as both chambers of Congress put bills to overhaul policing on a fast track for votes and a likely partisan collision course.
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday is pressing forward with Democrats’ bill to overhaul policing practices in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota last month, setting up a collision course with Senate Republicans rolling out their own legislation.
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A Minnesota man was charged Tuesday with setting fire to the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct, which was overrun and razed by vandals last month at the height of the rioting during the George Floyd protests.
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By Don Thompson - Associated Press
The California Highway Patrol spent $38 million responding to recent widespread protests over racial injustice, state officials said Tuesday.
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By Associated Press
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says officers will go into the several-block area being occupied by protesters if there are threats to public safety.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Democrats’ policing overhaul package, as written, is dead in the water in the Senate chamber.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday President Trump’s executive order on changes to policing doesn’t go nearly far enough.
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Rep. Stephen Lynch on Tuesday asked FBI Director Christopher A. Wray for a classified briefing on whether foreign adversaries are exploiting the George Floyd protests to sow discord in the U.S.
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The nation’s truckers are not eager to visit those cities which defund or even disband their local police departments according to a new poll.
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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at reducing fatal encounters between police and minorities, after the nationwide outcry and violent protests over police brutality in the deaths of George Floyd and others.
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A retired New Jersey police officer who fatally shot an armed black teenager 26 years ago has been fired from Rowan University amid a renewed national debate over police brutality and systemic racism.
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A pair of Justice Department officials will testify under subpoena next week about allegations that the department has become politicized under Attorney General William P. Barr, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Tuesday.
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A man was shot Monday night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a confrontation between protesters and a group of armed individuals who clashed over the statue of a Spanish conquistador.
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The New York City Police Department found “no criminality” by Shake Shack employees after three officers drank milkshakes believed to be contaminated with bleach.
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A Colorado protester was charged Monday with attempted murder for allegedly shooting a disabled veteran in the head during a Black Lives Matter demonstration spurred by the death of George Floyd.
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America’s law-enforcement officers were suffering a suicide epidemic before anti-police and racial justice protests engulfed the country, now police advocates worry it will get worse.
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The Justice Department on Monday scheduled new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates with four individuals convicted of murdering children set to die later this summer.
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President Trump says his administration is ready to crack down on leftists who have barricaded a six-block section of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, warning that radicals will be encouraged to spread their lawless tactics to other U.S. cities if Democratic leaders don’t stand up to them.
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By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press
New York City’s police department is disbanding the unit involved in Eric Garner’s 2014 chokehold death, Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday amid a nationwide reckoning for policing in the wake of George Floyd’s death last month in Minneapolis.
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By Amy Forliti - Associated Press
A 911 dispatcher who was apparently watching in real time as a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into the neck of George Floyd called a supervisor to tell him what she saw, not caring if it made her look like a “snitch,” according to a recording of the call made public Monday.
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Late-night comedian Bill Maher went off on “woke liberals” and their branding of the “defund the police” movement during his monologue Friday night, saying they’re taking something positive like police reform and turning into something radical that most Americans won’t support.
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Ja’Ron Smith, deputy assistant to President Trump, said Monday that Mr. Trump’s forthcoming executive order on policing will be “good glue” to try to bring law enforcement closer to the communities they serve amid national calls for change.
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Tomika Miller, the wife of Rayshard Brooks, said the Atlanta police officers involved in her husband’s killing deserve to be jailed.
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The Trump administration and lawmakers from both parties slammed Russia’s sentencing of American security executive Paul Whelan to 16 years in prison on spying charges Monday, after what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called an “appalling” and “secret trial” in Moscow.
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A newly declassified intelligence document underscores the FBI’s absolute commitment to the discredited Christopher Steele dossier even to the point of providing the CIA its most damaging allegations against then-President-elect Trump.
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Asked whether defunding the police was necessary, Democratic activist Stacey Abrams said it was a “false choice idea.”
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