NEW YORK (AP) — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and…
Category: Police Accountability
Michael Brown Sr. joins Minneapolis demonstrators as protests sweep nation
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests formed across America again Sunday, even as glass and graffiti from the previous night’s unrest were still being cleaned up, with some violence and crime flaring…
Protests' violence overnight leaves damage, tension
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Business owners in Ferguson as well as Kansas City were assessing damage and cleaning up Sunday after protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis…
Protesters block I-44 downtown; demonstrator dies in accident
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters blocked a downtown St. Louis interstate, set a fire in the road and broke into trucks in a demonstration over the death of a black…
Out of control? St. Louis police struggle with negative headlines
ST. LOUIS – It has been a trying year for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. You need look no farther than the seemingly endless slew of headlines. There was…
French: Police should 'step up,' clean own house before scolding the public
Last weekend, many people marked the five-year anniversary of the killing of teenager Michael Brown Jr. by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson. That killing, of course, sparked months of protests…
Database now tallies fatal police shootings here, nationwide
While the country’s collective camera was still capturing Ferguson amid the protests that followed the controversial killing of Michael Brown by a police officer, St. Louis police – in north…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 23: Psych tests, licenses and firings — Cures for racism among police?
Upset with what they see as a flaccid City Hall response to a barrage of racist and violent Facebook posts by current and former St. Louis police officers, critics of…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 20: St. Louis Police Lt. Col. Ronnie Robinson, the holistic cop
Ronnie Robinson grew up along The Horseshoe, a U-shaped dead-end street on the edge of Wells-Goodfellow that descended into crime, then to abandonment, and is now several acres of trees…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 11: Leader of Ethical Society of Police says ‘definitely racism’ in force
A 19-year veteran of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force, homicide detective Sgt. Heather Taylor says she feels like she has a target on her back every time she goes…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 10: Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards says he turned over officers for prosecution
Eleven St. Louis city police officers have been charged with crimes in the last seven months. Charges have included: federal civil rights violations, shooting a patron outside of a bar,…
Charles Jaco: A toxic culture in black and blue
Detective Sergeant Heather Taylor is black, and a woman, and a cop, in that order. In her years on the force, and as president of the Ethical Society of Police,…