A Los Angeles police oversight panel has ruled by a 3-1 vote that 12 officers violated department rules on lethal force when they fired from a helicopter at a man barricaded in a hilltop home, reports the city’s Times. The decision puts the Los Angeles...
The Connecticut Legislature has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that seeks to end having victims of domestic violence arrested along with their abusers because they fight back during the course of an assault, reports ProPublica. For years, Connecticut’s domestic violence victims have been...
It’s 10:35 a.m. on a chaotic Monday. You’re working to put the finishing touches on a motion for summary judgment on one case before submitting your pretrial disclosures for a court session at 11:00 a.m. on another. Suddenly, a message pops up on your screen:...
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies who responded to the deadly Parkland, Fla., school shooting on Feb. 14 had not been through their department’s active shooter training since 2015 or 2016, reports the Miami Herald. Several deputies took cover behind their cars while gunfire raged inside the...
For nearly a decade, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has supported a concept known as “justice reinvestment,” which encourages states to manage their prison populations better and invest the money that is saved in programs aimed at reducing recidivism. DOJ has recently been devoting about $25...
In April alone, 93 people were shot in New Jersey — 17 of them fatally. But as Gov. Phil Murphy vows to tighten the state’s already-strict gun laws, data shows more than three-quarters of guns connected to crimes in the Garden State come from beyond...