Crime

Baltimore police make progress in court-ordered reform effort

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Judge denies request to dismiss case against man charged in NYC subway chokehold death

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The 3 officers cleared in Manuel Ellis’ death will each receive $500,000 to leave Tacoma police

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Update expected in case of Buffalo supermarket gunman as families await decision on death penalty

The meeting between DOJ officials and victims of Payton Gendron will take place ahead of an already scheduled status conference.
/ January 12, 2024

Rapper G Herbo could be sentenced to more than a year in jail in fraud plot

Prosecutors, in their sentencing memo, say Herbert Wright III should be jailed for a year and day, with 36 months…
/ January 11, 2024

The top UN court is set to hear South Africa’s allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza

Preliminary hearings have begun into South Africa's call for ICJ judges to order a suspension of Israel's military actions in…
/ January 11, 2024

DC to consider major new public safety bill to stem rising violent crime

Homicides have dropped post-pandemic in New York City, Chicago, Philly and Baltimore, but the trends have accelerated in D.C.
/ January 11, 2024

Sentencing postponed again for Mississippi police officers who tortured two Black men

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee has pushed back sentencing to March. In October, he granted some ex-officers' motions to delay…
/ January 11, 2024

City council committee recommends replacing Memphis police chief, 1 year after Tyre Nichols death

Nichols' death shined a light on the Memphis police department and its chief, Cerelyn “CJ” Davis, and calls for her…
/ January 11, 2024

Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying

Thao's appeal alleged misconduct and argued that prosecutors failed to prove his actions on the day that Floyd died were…
/ January 10, 2024

In $25M settlement, North Carolina city ‘deeply remorseful’ for man’s wrongful conviction, prison

The settlement, which ends Ronnie Long's wrongful incarceration lawsuit, also included a public apology from the city of Concord.
/ January 10, 2024

Watch: Deobra Redden soared across table to attack judge. Today, jurist sentenced him on different charges

The same judge accosted by a defendant in a Las Vegas courtroom last week sentenced her attacker Monday to up to four…
/ January 8, 2024

Idris Elba calls for tougher action on knife crime after a spate of teen killings in Britain

Elba joined protesters from an anti-violence campaign outside Parliament, posing with items denoting people killed in England by knives.
/ January 8, 2024

As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in

There are more than 2.7 million registered private security officers in South Africa amid fewer than the nation's 150,000 police…
/ January 8, 2024

Young people blocked from buying more than 500 firearms, attorney general says

A bipartisan law passed in June 2022 has blocked young people from buying more than 500 firearms, the US attorney…
/ January 7, 2024