police reform

Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, was a branch of the country’s police force created in 1992 to deal with crime incidents. However, more recently, it has been the subject of massive protests for its links to murders and other illegal activities. LX News talked to young activists Tiffany Isesele and Adedoyin Adeniji, who created a website to raise awareness...

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown on Tuesday talked to new police recruits about policing, reforms and race.

Following months of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, a police officer in Wolfe City, Texas, has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another Black man, Jonathan Price. What made this case different? LX News talked to Michael Harriot of The Root and the executive director...

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

A Denver pilot program called STAR, or Support Team Assisted Response, is changing how the city responds to 911 calls by sending mental health workers and paramedics, rather than police, to respond to calls that don’t involve crimes.

Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest racial inequality and issues with the criminal justice system. But not everyone realizes one of the most powerful tools in a protester’s arsenal is a vote. It’s hard to get enough votes to change a president, but it’s considerably easier to vote out your local mayor, councilmembers, or...

A Kentucky grand jury has decided not to indict any of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor with homicide or manslaughter, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be additional charges in the future to hold the officers responsible for her death. Attorney Michael Starr Hopkins explains that federal charges could still be possible under a...

The city of Louisville agreed to pay Breonna Taylor’s family $12 million and enact police reform, but political consultant Michael Starr Hopkins is pointing out that no admission of fault was mentioned in the agreement and believes that in order to elicit real social change, we need to continue to see similar settlements.

Darrin Porcher, a retired NYPD lieutenant, was among the first responders in Lower Manhattan who rushed to the scene of the Sept. 11 attacks 19 years ago today. He talks about how our country came together after those attacks, as compared to today’s divided America.

Dr. Shamard Charles, the host of “Heart Over Hype” speaks on issues of police brutality, police reform and the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities

Author Dwayne Bryant stops by to discuss his book “The Stop: Improving Police & Community Relations” and speaks about surviving an encounter with the police if you’re Black.

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has led to new interest in training officers how to stop fellow officers from using excessive force and committing other misconduct.

The death of George Floyd and widespread protests over racial injustice have prompted several states to move at a lightning pace to pass significant policing reform proposals that in some cases have languished for years, with other states on the verge of taking similar action

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

For Albert Corado, talk of reforming the current Los Angeles Police Department is pointless, implying that there is something worthwhile about an agency he has been driven to dismantle since an officer’s bullet struck and killed his younger sister during a shootout at a Trader Joe’s grocery store. He has no confidence that its officers will change the way...

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have introduced legislation to reform policing in America, but they diverge on some issues

Small cities often don’t have the resources to meet recommended standards but roll out SWAT teams anyway

Small towns that don’t have the staffing or money to maintain a SWAT unit properly are doing it anyway. And it’s endangering innocent lives. The mother of a 19-month-old boy, maimed by a SWAT team’s flash grenade, said it was like being “attacked by a vicious pack of dogs…it changed everything.” Unfortunately, mistakes are happening in small communities across...