Jennifer Morinigo | January 26, 2017 | American Indian Law, Policing
Project Reporter Matthew Fletcher was featured on a Minnesota Public Radio News segment on incidents of Native Americans interacting with police. Matthew, who directs the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University, appeared on the program with...
Jennifer Morinigo | January 13, 2017 | Policing
The Justice Department today issued a press release on its investigation into Chicago’s Police Department. Full text of the press release follows: The Justice Department announced today that it has found reasonable cause to believe that the Chicago Police...
Jennifer Morinigo | November 23, 2016 | Policing
Researchers from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, presented the findings of a recent study completed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Spokane, Washington. The preliminary results of the study suggest that officers do not use less force...
Noelle Phillips | November 1, 2016 | Policing
The Denver Police Department is rewriting its use-of-force policy to align it with the community’s changing expectations for how officers handle volatile situations and to reflect progressive policies recommended by national policing experts. The new policy will shift...
