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July 20, 2022

Boston’s new police commissioner is a Black man who has been beaten by fellow officers 

Michael A. Cox Sr. has been described as a “very somber, very straight-down-the-middle,” almost professorial officer.
June 29, 2021

Lawmakers claim they were beaten with bicycles by NYPD in a new lawsuit

The NYPD also faces a class-action suit claiming it violated protesters' rights last summer through "demoralizing and brutal shows of…
October 15, 2015

Police disband sit-in at Baltimore City Hall, arrests made

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police disbanded an overnight occupation of City Hall by activists opposed to moves to make the…
May 20, 2014

Police commissioner resigns over Obama slur

WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (AP) — The police commissioner of a small U.S. town has resigned after he admitted using a…
May 16, 2014

New Hampshire official refuses to apologize for Obama racial slur

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — A police commissioner in a predominantly white New Hampshire town says he won't apologize for calling…
December 5, 2013

De Blasio campaign officials: Bratton picked to run NYPD again

NEW YORK (AP) — William Bratton, whose tenure as commissioner of the New York Police Department in the 1990s was…