#police-misconduct

#police-misconduct

The commission tasked with finding three finalists for the vacant Chicago Police superintendent job has completed two rounds of candidate interviews and remains on track to meet its mid-July deadline, according to the body's president.Anthony Driver Jr., president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, said Tuesday that he's "a billion percent" confident that the commission will "meet or exceed" its July 14 deadline to send three finalists for the job to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

For 13 years, Carlos Pena has run NoHo Printing & Graphics in North Hollywood.He has stayed here even as this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard became sketchier, even as the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to lay off all his employees."It's a very creative field of work, but not very profitable," the Salvadoran immigrant told me half-jokingly as we walked inside his shop.

Politics The special prosecutor investigated the case for four months.Special prosecutor Glenn Cunha announced Tuesday that he is recommending no criminal charges be filed against two Transit Police officers who were allegedly involved in a coverup, The Boston Globe reported.The special prosecutor, who was appointed by Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden to investigate the case in August, was investigating an April 2021 incident during which an off-duty Transit Police officer allegedly pointed a gun at a Black Hispanic man while they were having a traffic dispute, and then asked another officer to help him cover up the incident.

Two Georgia men who were sentenced to life in prison in the 1996 shooting death of their friend were freed last week after a true-crime podcast helped to uncover evidence of police misconduct in their cases, lawyers for both men said.The two men, Cain Joshua Storey and Darrell Lee Clark, were both 17 years old in 1996 when their friend, Brian Bowling, 15, died from a gunshot wound to the head while he was in the bedroom of his mobile home in Floyd County, Ga., the lawyers said.

Good Kids Mad City filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Chicago to seek relief from the city's youth curfew on Halloween so young people with the organization can "cop watch and peacekeep" in Hyde Park on the holiday.The city's youth curfew does not allow those under the age of 18 from being on the streets after 10 p.m. Every year on Halloween, Good Kids Mad City holds an event in Hyde Park where members cop watch - observe police activity with the goal of de-escalating and discouraging police misconduct - and conduct outreach to young people.

Thursday, February 16, 2023 by Jo Clifton
City Council voted 9-2 on Wednesday to instruct staff and outside counsel to negotiate a one-year extension of the current contract between the city and the Austin Police Association without taking an explicit position on a four-year deal announced last week by outgoing City Manager Spencer Cronk.

Photo by YouTube: Dec. 1 police contract negotiations
Friday, December 16, 2022 by Emma Freer
The city of Austin and the Austin Police Association returned to the bargaining table Wednesday  after a brief hiatus stemming from an impasse on oversight provisions.The city initiated the pause early this month  after the police union said it wouldn't consider removing the Office of Police Oversight from the contract, raising questions about whether the two sides would reach an agreement before the current contract expires March 31.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 by Emma Freer
With the city of Austin eager to reach an expedited agreement for a new police labor contract that expands civilian oversight, the police union is demanding higher wages for officers - or no deal.Lowell Denton, an outside attorney and labor negotiator for the city, proposed a 10 percent raise over four years during the most recent negotiation session on Wednesday , countering APA's proposal to raise wages up to 20 percent  over the same period.

T he Met and other police forces were on Wednesday denounced as institutionally sexist as the policing watchdog admitted there were significant problems with misogyny among officers.Diana Johnson, chairwoman of the Commonshome affairs select committee, said that we should call it what it is institutional sexism as she and other MPs grilled the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services Andy Cooke about the failures that allowed Met rapist David Carrick to escape detection during his decades with the force.

In April 2021, Portland police officer Zachary DeLong fatally shot a man named Robert Delgado in Lents Park.Delgado, a homeless man who appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis at the time, allegedly pointed a fake handgun at officers before he was killed.DeLong faced no criminal penalties for the shooting.

A Home Office minister Robert Jenrick has said Rishi Sunak's government will backs efforts by London mayor Sadiq Khan to strip serial rapist police officer David Carrick of his pension.Mr Khan has said efforts will be made to remove the police pension because Carrick's crimes were committed in connection with his job but the current rules state he will still keep at least 35 per cent.

A Chicago police officer was fired late Thursday for his role 18 years ago in one of the biggest scandals in department history.The Police Board decided todismiss Officer Thomas Sherry in a five to one decision for his alleged actions in the disgraced Special Operations Section, a specialized unit that was disbanded when some of its officers committed home invasions and robberies in the 2000s.