Police Accountability
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Legal fight over civilian oversight of St. Louis police could have wide implications
A St. Louis ordinance aimed at transforming the way the city investigates allegations of police misconduct went into effect on…
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Missouri Court of Appeals revives ‘old school’ self-defense law in resisting arrest case
Two Newton County sheriff deputies were dispatched to a trailer park north of Neosho to evict a man and his…
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Grieving St. Louis families respond to police-involved shooting scenes, push for change
On the night of April 24, 2013, six residents living in a neighborhood just north of downtown St. Louis say…
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High court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan…
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Jones signs executive order banning no-knock search warrants
St. Louis has become the first Missouri city to completely ban no-knock search warrants, or warrants that allow police officers…
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Judge orders St. Louis County to pay $300K for warrantless police search
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered St. Louis County to pay $300,000 to two people who sued…
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Assistant city police chief gets $162K to settle discrimination lawsuit
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to…
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Biden lays out ‘fund the police’ budget plan
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is requesting billions in its fiscal 2023 budget from Congress to fund police departments,…
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Fourth officer sentenced in beating of undercover colleage
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to one year of probation for his…
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St. Louis tries to block lawsuit against police officers from going to trial
ST. LOUIS – The city is asking a panel of federal judges to reconsider a January decision to allow a…
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Group sues St. Louis over police promotion procedures
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A police group that advocates for minority officers filed a lawsuit against St. Louis and some…
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Public safety leaders push to tighten accountability for police officers
State officials investigated last year allegations that a law enforcement officer pointed a handgun at his son’s head while intoxicated. …
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St. Louis County names first Black police chief
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A man who has served for 42 years in the St. Louis County Police Department was…
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Nearly 60 police chiefs back suit against Missouri gun law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 60 Missouri police chiefs are supporting a lawsuit that raises concerns about a new state…
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Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge in Floyd’s death
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating George…
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St. Louis asks judge to rule ‘police bill of rights’ law unconstitutional
The city of St. Louis filed a lawsuit Friday asking a judge to strike down a wide-ranging bill that passed in May…
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Ex-officer gets a year and a day in beating of undercover colleague
ST. LOUIS – Former city police officer Dustin Boone was sentenced Monday to twelve months and one day in prison…
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New U.S. attorney in New York to add civil rights unit for ‘troubled times’
NEW YORK (AP) — With Attorney General Merrick Garland looking on, Manhattan’s new U.S. attorney said Friday that he was…
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Family, activists seek answers in Black Missourian’s death
SPANISH LAKE, Mo. (AP) — A puzzling, broad-daylight shooting at a small-town trailer park is renewing concerns among activists about…
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Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors
SEATTLE (AP) — Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson…
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St. Louis wants BLM protester to pay attorney fees for suing police
An attorney for the city of St. Louis argued in court Tuesday that a woman who sued a police officer…
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Plea deal for ex-St. Louis officer in colleague’s beating
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer who has twice faced trial on federal charges in the…
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Guns, pandemic, police use of force helped fuel 2020 homicide spike
Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. 27, 2021, by…
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Nonprofit grants help fund prosecutors’ push against racial injustice
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When Deborah Gonzalez took office in January as the district attorney for the Western Judicial District of…
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Missouri lawmakers bucked national trend by establishing police ‘bill of rights’
On the final day of the 2021 legislative session in May, Missouri lawmakers passed a “law enforcement bill of rights”…
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St. Louis professor has waged long crusade to end abuse from ‘wandering cops’
Professor Roger Goldman’s crusade against “wandering cops” began 41 years ago, when two bullets from Joseph Sorbello’s revolver tore through…
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St. Louis police use force more against Blacks, study finds
ST. LOUIS (AP) — City police used force against Black people more than three times as often as they did…
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Lawsuit alleges city corrections department is violating Missouri Sunshine Law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A civil rights group sued the St. Louis City Department of Corrections Wednesday for allegedly violating…
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Ferguson mayor cites progress, but still a long way to go
FERGUSON (AP) — Seven years after Michael Brown’s death turned a bright spotlight on the criminal justice system in Ferguson, the town’s…
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After new Justice Center disturbances, 120 inmates are back at workhouse
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis began moving on Saturday roughly 120 detainees back to its old city jail, known…
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