#police-reform

#police-reform

The Government official found the Met Police to be riven with racism, sexism and homophobia, in the way it treats its staff and the way it polices Londoners.She also criticised its inability to protect women and children.Baroness Casey said the force must apologise for past mistakes, improve its accountability, and restore front-line policing to the standards people expect.

Sir Keir Starmer will promise to halve levels of violence against women and girls within a decade if Labour takes office.He will also pledge to halve serious violent crime and raise confidence in the police and criminal justice system in the wake of the damning report by Baroness Casey into Scotland Yard.

Keir Starmer has said that the Metropolitan police chief, Sir Mark Rowley, must act further and faster to deliver the change needed as a result of the Casey review While he had confidence in the head of Scotland Yard, the Labour leader criticised the government's hands off approach to delivering police reform and committed a Labour government under his leadership to introducing mandatory national rules for police forces on vetting.

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AUSTIN, Texas Austin police are facing new calls for accountability in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man two years ago this month.It is a case that sparked community controversy but resulted in no criminal charges against the officers.Police Chief Joe Chacon confirmed to the KVUE Defenders that the internal affairs investigation in the 2021 death of Alex Gonzales is complete and that he is poised to decide in the coming days whether any officer violated departmental policy in the case.

The Justice Department moved Tuesday to end a consent decree with the Seattle Police Department, bringing to a close more than a decade of federal supervision of the police department.The Seattle consent decree was established under the Obama administration in 2012 after a Justice Department investigation found that the police department there had a pattern of using excessive force.

Police officers restrain a man after they told people to go home during a march over the murder of 33-year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, by a police officer in London, on March 15, 2021.(Matt Dunham/AP)Racism, misogyny and homophobia are running rampant in London's Metropolitan Police force, an official review of the institution found, recommending that the force undergo a dramatic overhaul to address deep-seated issues that it said have been exacerbated by a culture of "defensiveness and denial."

A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.President Joe Biden is siding with Republicans and moderate Democrats to slap down local leaders of Washington, DC, as they try to update a 100-year-old criminal code that is showing its age.

When I started getting into running a couple of years ago, it was often in the dark.It was early March at the start of the first lockdown, and I found that I needed to get outside in the evening after a day stuck inside on my laptop.It was born out of necessity, but over time I came to love the sensation of running at night.