Women serving with the New Jersey State Police were told they were “liabilities on the road” or “not tough enough for the job.” Troopers of color were told that “just because you’re Black doesn’t...
Attorney general makes sweeping recommendations for change at the state agency. New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on Tuesday ordered a sweeping set of reforms for the State Police and took over some of...
Van Dean Scott couldn’t believe what the Rosebud tribal police were telling him. “The cops came to my house from across the road,” he recalled, “and said, ‘Do you have a son named Derrick...
A 2018 lawsuit alleging discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department is seeking the go-ahead from the federal court to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit against the City of Buffalo claims...
A Guatemalan teen is charged in the death of a Florida sheriff’s sergeant, but his attorney says video shows the officer made an illegal stop and search and used excessive force. Suzanne Gamboa December...
By Beth Kwiatek
“George Floyd’s killing by four white police officers, and the nonchalance in which it was enacted, has finally outraged white America. White America can no longer ignore or dismiss the reality of what it means to be black or brown in this country.”