Experts told Newsweek that technology disproportionately impacts marginalized communities and raises significant privacy and civil liberties issues…
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Sacramento police surprise elderly man after his bike was stolen
An elderly Sacramento man is back to cycling across the city after his bike was stolen a few weeks ago…
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‘Vicious cycle’: Inside the police recruiting crunch with resignations on the rise
Police departments across the country are facing a “vicious cycle” of retirements, resignations, and fewer hires…
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Greensboro police chief presents counterintuitive plan to cut officer positions to help bolster the department
Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson says the department is down 115 sworn officers. Because of the staffing shortage, they have to cut back on the services his department offers the community, which is something the city can’t afford to do with the recurring violence plaguing the city.
Part of the problem, Thompson says, is that the Greensboro Police Department is losing officers to nearby cities like Burlington that are able to pay more. The chief says he has a plan, but it may sound counterintuitive.
“What I am going to ask is that the council reduce my authorized strength by 30 positions,” Thompson said. “I am not a math guy, but I am pretty good with numbers. That would roughly equate to about $2 million dollars.”
Those funds could then go toward essentially giving $3,000 raises to staff across the board.
Park Police body-cam footage shows officer shooting Dalaneo Martin – The Washington Post
U.S. Park Police on Tuesday released body-cam footage showing an officer fatally shooting a 17-year-old last month after the officer climbed into the back of a vehicle to detain the teen and was still inside when he drove away.
The officer, from the back seat of the vehicle, asks Dalaneo Martin to stop over the span of about 13 seconds, then draws his gun and says, “Stop, stop, or I’ll shoot,” the footage shows. Barely a second later, he fires what sounds like five shots at Martin’s back.
The gruesome footage, along with video from body cameras worn by D.C. police officers on the scene, adds significant details to the public’s understanding of the March 18 encounter — revealing not only the moment Martin was shot, but also officers strategizing for how to take him into custody as he sat, apparently asleep, in the front seat of a vehicle they believed to be stolen. Before officers embark on a plan to stealthily access the vehicle and restrain the teen, one D.C. police officer tells the group, “If he takes off, just let him go,” the footage shows.
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US rule to allow some inmates to stay home after COVID emergency lifts
Federal inmates who were allowed to serve their prison terms at home during the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to remain there after the Biden administration lifts the public health emergency, under new rules unveiled by the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday…
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI’s facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company’s CEO, told the BBC…
Case Law: Protected Speech Against Police Operation – Lexipol
In a recent decision, the court determines whether protest against a distracted-driving police operation was protected speech…
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Turmoil in courts on gun laws in wake of justices’ ruling | AP News
A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books.
The high court’s ruling that set new standards for evaluating gun laws left open many questions, experts say, resulting in an increasing number of conflicting decisions as lower court judges struggle to figure out how to apply it.
The Supreme Court’s so-called Bruen decision changed the test that lower courts had long used for evaluating challenges to firearm restrictions. Judges should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests like enhancing public safety, the justices said.
Under the Supreme Court’s new test, the government that wants to uphold a gun restriction must look back into history to show it is consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.”..
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Public outrage over Nichols’ beating collides with Washington bureaucracy on police reform | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden referenced the failed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in his statement about Nichols on Friday, and many leaders – from the chairs of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio – are acknowledging a potential role for federal legislation.
The Congressional Black Caucus is requesting a meeting with Biden this week to push for negotiations. “We are calling on our colleagues in the House and Senate to jumpstart negotiations now and work with us to address the public health epidemic of police violence that disproportionately affects many of our communities,” CBC Chair Steven Horsford, a Nevada Democrat, wrote in a statement on Sunday.
But with Congress as divided as ever, it appears public outrage is once again on a collision course with Washington partisanship.
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