police reform

The death of George Floyd and widespread protests over racial injustice have prompted several states to move at a lightning pace to pass significant policing reform proposals that in some cases have languished for years, with other states on the verge of taking similar action

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

For Albert Corado, talk of reforming the current Los Angeles Police Department is pointless, implying that there is something worthwhile about an agency he has been driven to dismantle since an officer’s bullet struck and killed his younger sister during a shootout at a Trader Joe’s grocery store. He has no confidence that its officers will change the way...

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have introduced legislation to reform policing in America, but they diverge on some issues

Small cities often don’t have the resources to meet recommended standards but roll out SWAT teams anyway

Small towns that don’t have the staffing or money to maintain a SWAT unit properly are doing it anyway. And it’s endangering innocent lives. The mother of a 19-month-old boy, maimed by a SWAT team’s flash grenade, said it was like being “attacked by a vicious pack of dogs…it changed everything.” Unfortunately, mistakes are happening in small communities across...

You get really frustrated because you know you didn’t do anything. You’re guilty before you’re proven innocent, so now you have to prove your innocence.

Kel Smith, 37, is a mental health counselor who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Black man, he’s known since he was a teenager that he was more likely to get pulled over by the police while driving – and that every stop had the potential to be fatal. He recalls one night as a college student in California when...

Christy Lopez of the Georgetown Law Center says the call to defund the police is about realigning resources to people who may not have a badge and a gun — but who play a different role in keeping communities safe. That could include the people behind mental health services and other community resources. But she said calls to simply cut...

From Slave Patrols to Jim Crow, what can we learn about policing from history? NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway introduces us to an ex-chief of police who has been at the center of the fight towards change for decades.

It’s rare for public opinion on social issues to change sharply and swiftly

Nearly 10 years ago, Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr., a college football player, was shot dead through the windshield of his car by a police officer. Today, his sister Amber is urging people to remember her brother alongside George Floyd and other unarmed black men killed by police. And she wants the cop who killed him prosecuted for murder.

‘The issue of how police present themselves regarding their image is an important one and should not be allowed to drift away’

Police on Wednesday forcibly cleared out Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone after about two weeks in a situation that had attracted the complaints of local business owners and the ire of President Donald Trump during a number of Twitter posts

Dr. Howard Henderson, director at the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University, speaks out on the critical need for police reform and the disconnect between training and implementation on the streets.

Andrea Ritchie of the Barnard Center for Research on Women says Black women are more likely to be killed by police than Black men, as evidenced by the shooting of Breonna Taylor. She says Breonna’s Law, while a positive step, doesn’t do enough to protect them.

In 2006, Cariol Horne, a police officer from Buffalo, N.Y., intervened when a fellow police officer put a handcuffed suspect in a chokehold. Later, she was fired from her job and lost her pension. Today, she’s fighting for a law that will require other police officers to hold their fellow cops accountable for misconduct.

The House has approved a far-reaching policing overhaul from Democrats

Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist, died in August 2019 after police in Aurora, Colorado, stopped him on his way home from the store and put him in an illegal chokehold. LX News host Nik Z reviews the body cam footage of his encounter with the cops and Marc Sallinger, a reporter for KUSA in Denver, gives an update...

A policing overhaul may have collapsed in Congress, but House Democrats are returning Thursday to Washington for a daylong debate on their package of law enforcement changes.