The federal judge overseeing a reform agreement between Ferguson, Mo., and the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday she has seen substantial progress in efforts to eliminate bias in the St. Louis suburb’s law enforcement system, the Associated Press reports. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry...
The East Pittsburgh police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager has been charged with criminal homicide, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Officer Michael Rosfeld, 30, is charged with one single count. He turned himself at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. Rosfeld is accused of killing Antwon...
Female FBI agents, DEA agents, ATF agents and deputy marshals are still distinct minorities in the ranks of law enforcement, says a new audit that found women are rarely promoted to key jobs at the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies, reports the Washington Post. Justice...
Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor and the first person to be prosecuted during the Trump administration for leaking classified information, pleaded guilty Tuesday to espionage, the Los Angeles Times reports. Prosecutors recommended that Winner, 26, serve five years and three months in...
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court. The departure gives President Trump the chance to replace the court’s pivotal justice and dramatically shift the court to the right, setting up a bitter partisan showdown on Kennedy’s successor, the Washington...
Orlando, Fl., has ended a pilot program in which its police force used Amazon’s real-time facial recognition — a system called “Rekognition” that had triggered complaints from rights and privacy groups, NPR reports. Orlando’s deal to open part of its camera systems to Amazon was...