The Minneapolis Police Face a Consent Decree. Do They Work?
Because consent decrees seek to correct systemic problems, they often take a soup-to-nuts approach, from rewriting policies on when officers can use force to revamping...
Judge Mostly Blocks Indiana Ban on Transition Care for Minors
The News A federal judge in Indiana largely blocked that state’s ban on transition medical care for youth from taking effect on July 1, the...
Arizona Man Is Freed After 28 Years on Death Row
Wearing a T-shirt that read “Free Bird,” an Arizona man who spent nearly 28 years on death row was freed on Thursday after a judge...
The Final Fight for Black Sailors Known as the ‘Philadelphia 15’
Just over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, 15 sailors assigned to the U.S.S. Philadelphia wrote a letter to a Black newspaper detailing...
Minneapolis Police Used Illegal, Abusive Practices for Years, DOJ Finds
The Justice Department said on Friday that the Minneapolis police routinely discriminated against Black and Native American people, used deadly force without justification and trampled...
Jury Convicts Man in Killings of 11 in Pittsburgh Synagogue
The gunman who killed 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 was found guilty on Friday of dozens of federal hate crimes and...
Deadlocked Iowa Supreme Court Leaves Abortion Legal Through 20 Weeks
The News A legal attempt to ban abortion in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy failed on Friday, after the State Supreme Court deadlocked over...
What Is a Consent Decree?
The Justice Department and Minneapolis officials on Friday said they had agreed to negotiate toward a deal for overhauling the Police Department that could be...
Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 1978 law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees with their tribes and traditions, handing a victory to tribes...
Read the Full Justice Department Report
A Justice Department report, released on Friday, detailed systemic issues within the Minneapolis Police Department that it said led to the death of George Floyd,...
Read the Justice Department’s Report on the Minneapolis Police Department
3. MPD Has Failed to Sufficiently Address Known Racial Disparities, Missing Race Data, and Allegations of Bias, Damaging Community Trust
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Minneapolis Police Department Investigation: Key Findings From the DOJ Report
The Justice Department accused the Minneapolis Police Department of rampant discrimination, unlawful conduct and systemic mismanagement in a scathing 89-page report released on Friday. The...
What Happened to ‘Defund the Police’ Efforts in Minneapolis and Other Cities?
More than three years after the murder of George Floyd focused the nation’s attention on racism in law enforcement, Minneapolis’s Third Precinct police station, which...
Tornado Strikes Perryton, Texas, Killing 3 and Causing Destruction
A storm system that swept through Texas on Thursday evening killed three people and injured dozens of others, an official said, as the state braced...