The Atlanta Police Department has mostly recovered from a March ransomware attack that crippled computer systems across the city, but the outage compromised years of dashcam videos, Chief Erika Shields told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News. Shields said her department has not...
Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz may become a decisive voice in the partisan controversies over the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, and its subsequent probe of the Trump campaign and Russia, the...
A Miami-Dade County jury returned a verdict against Royal Caribbean Cruises of more than $20,000,000 on behalf of an officer who was injured on the Voyager of the Seas during an accident in 2008. Royal Caribbean officer Lisa Spearman was seriously and permanently injured when a...
A Florida judge has denied a request from a former police officer who fatally shot a driver to have criminal charges against him thrown out under the state’s Stand Your Ground law, calling his testimony “unreliable and not credible,” reports the New York Times. Officer...
The legal battle over a New York City police officer’s disciplinary records after the chokehold death of Eric Garner in 2014 cast a little-known law into the spotlight. The city’s explanation that it could not disclose the disciplinary history of officer Daniel Pantaleo because the...
A campaign to recall a California judge for a lenient sentence in a high-profile sexual assault case has fractured long-term friendships, divided the liberal Democratic community of Santa Clara County and pitted feminists against feminists, the Los Angeles Times reports. Voters will decide Tuesday whether...