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The Virginia Beach Police Department used forged DNA evidence in at least five interrogations, the state's Attorney General announced this week.

Virginia Beach Police used forged DNA reports to get confessions, investigation finds

Jan 13, 2022
The state's attorney general's office said officers would present to suspects documents with forged letterhead and contact information and, in two cases, a signature from a made-up employee.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
A demonstrator holds her hands up while she kneels in front of the Police at the Anaheim City Hall on June 1, 2020 in Anaheim, California. Reform pressures have many cops leaving the job.

Cops Say Low Morale And Department Scrutiny Are Driving Them Away From The Job

Jun 24, 2021
The mass exodus comes at a delicate time for many communities large and small as violent crime is on the rise and recruitment remains difficult.
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
This image from video shows Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane, left, and J. Alexander Kueng, right, escorting George Floyd, center, to a police vehicle outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis, on May 25, 2020. The image was shown as prosecutor Steve Schle

How Using Videos At Chauvin Trial And Others Impacts Criminal Justice

May 07, 2021
The video of George Floyd's death was critical evidence in the murder trial of convicted ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. That video and others are changing trials and police training.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
Police officer David Moore is pictured wearing a body camera in Ipswich, Mass., on Dec. 1, 2020. The city was among 25 statewide awarded grants to purchase body-worn cameras for videotaping interactions with the public. A new study says the benefits to s

Study: Body-Worn Camera Research Shows Drop In Police Use Of Force

Apr 26, 2021
A review from public safety experts and world economists says the benefits to society and police departments outweigh the costs of cameras.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative

U.S. Capitol Mob Brings Questions, Fallout For Pro-Trump Police

Jan 12, 2021
Some officers are being investigated over involvement at the protests, while others fought off protesters who once supported them.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and in solidarity with the family and supporters of Stephon Clark and others killed by police, demonstrators protest and march in the Magnificent Mile shopping distri

Chicago Debates If Civilian Groups Should Oversee Police

May 28, 2018
Overhauling police has been a critical issue for more than two years after the release of a video which showed a white Chicago police officer shooting and killing a black teenager.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
Real-time facial recognition has made huge iPhone leaps in accuracy in recent years. This image of NPR's Martin Kaste, is from a Cognitec demonstration at the Connect ID conference.

Real-Time Facial Recognition Is Available, But Will U.S. Police Buy It?

May 10, 2018
Instant facial recognition is ramping up in China and other places, but will U.S. law enforcement follow suit?
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Digital Life
Police officer in Lawrence, Kan. watch thunderstorms move past the city in 2008.

Basketball, Marijuana And Poetry: These Police Tweet More Than Crime Alerts

Apr 18, 2018
The Lawrence, Kan., police department's account has over 100,000 Twitter followers. It's well-known for tweets that use humor to reach its community.
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National
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in Robbins, Ill., on Nov. 19, 2013. Dart says many suburban departments have a hard time just getting officers to patrol the town.

What Happens When Suburban Police Departments Don't Have Enough Money?

Jan 22, 2018
Small police departments struggling with high crime and low budgets tend to pay fast-food wages, may employ officers with troubled pasts and can miss out on opportunities to learn from mistakes.
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Author Interviews

'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women

Nov 05, 2017
Author Andrea Ritchie wants the incidents of police violence involving women of color and transgender women to get as much attention as black men and boys have received in recent years.
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Around the Nation
Phoenix police officers stand beside a dump truck blocking a road outside the Phoenix Convention Center on Aug. 22. Protests were held against President Trump as he planned to host a rally inside the convention center.

Police Departments Deploy Garbage Trucks To Block Vehicle Attacks In Crowds

Sep 14, 2017
Law enforcement officers are using the trucks to prevent vehicle attacks like the one in Charlottesville that killed one woman and injured several other people.
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Law
A Newark police officer wears a body camera last month. The cameras, which will be worn by officers as part of a federal monitoring agreement, are provided by Panasonic.

Should The Police Control Their Own Body Camera Footage?

May 25, 2017
There is a growing perception that body cameras, now generating millions of hours of footage, are there less to keep tabs on police, and more to keep tabs on the public.
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Code Switch
Fatima Avelica, 13, daughter of of Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez, attends a rally with loved ones and supporters for his release outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices on March 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

This Week In Race: ICE Sends Chills Across U.S., Kaepernick, Others, Write Big Checks

Mar 24, 2017
While much of the focus has been on deportations of Latinx, other groups have been under increased scrutiny.
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U.S.
Darren Alridge works as a "para-instructor" at the Youth Empowerment Project. He says police have yet to convince him that they're serious about bringing killers to justice in his community.

New Orleans And The Hard Work Of Pushing Down The Murder Rate

Feb 23, 2017
President Trump is promising to crack down on crime. But police crackdowns have already been tried in cities such as New Orleans, which is now enduring a resurgence in homicide.
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Code Switch
Can the presence of more black police officers reduce police violence?

Does Having More Black Officers Reduce Police Violence?

Feb 04, 2017
Data overwhelmingly confirm that black people are involved in and are victims of police-involved killings at greater proportions than any other racial group in the country. But there's a new twist.
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Law

When It Comes To Police Reform, Insurance Companies May Play A Role

Apr 01, 2016
There are limits to what the government can do, but it turns out that insurers look for ways to push police departments they cover to reduce risk.
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Photography
Police stations would hang charts showing rows of eyes, ears, noses and other body parts to help officers identify suspects using Bertillon's system.

Meet Alphonse Bertillon, The Man Behind The Modern Mug Shot

Mar 08, 2016
French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon wasn't the first to introduce mug shots to police, but he standardized how they were taken and added the profile shot to zero in on a suspect's unique features.
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U.S.

Immigration Relief Possible In Return For Crime Victims' Cooperation

Jan 20, 2016
The road to a U visa is long, and difficult to navigate. Proposed rule changes in New York City may streamline the process, and provide a model for other law enforcement agencies around the country.
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U.S.
NYPD veteran Brian Fusco speaks to press outside the 72nd Precinct in the Brooklyn borough on Jan. 20. Fusco is running for president of the state's Patrolman's Benevolent Association in the upcoming election, against incumbent Patrick Lynch, who has bee

NYPD's Union Rift Confronted By A Wider Shift In Leadership Style

Jun 04, 2015
The force's union faces a serious upcoming election challenge. Opponents of incumbent President Patrick Lynch say it's time for a new dialogue with city leaders and the public.
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The Two-Way
Police in riot gear stand around an armored vehicle as smoke fills the streets of Ferguson, Mo., in November 2014.

White House Ban On Militarized Gear For Police May Mean Little

May 21, 2015
An NPR analysis of equipment given to police agencies by the Pentagon since 2006 — 84,258 assault rifles, 951 armored vehicles, for example — found a vast majority of it would fall outside the ban.
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U.S.
Detroit police officer James Kraszewski stands next to the whiteboard the squad uses to track its cases' clearance status.

Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved

Mar 30, 2015

Police today are identifying fewer murder suspects than they did a generation ago. One criminologist says that may be because departments are more focused on preventing crimes than on making arrests.

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