#police-reform

#police-reform

Nusrat Choudhury was confirmed Thursday as a federal judge by the US Senate, making history as the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi American to join the federal judicial bench.The vote in the Democrat-led Senate narrowly passed along party lines.President Joe Biden nominated the civil rights attorney in January 2022, along with seven other federal judicial nominees, who, the White House said, continue to fulfill the President's promise to ensure that the nation's court reflects the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a court both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.

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.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday delivered a farewell address that sought to define her embattled, one-term reign as a defiant stand against the political establishment - an impassioned final message from the leader of the nation's third-largest city following a divisive term and stunning reelection loss.

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.

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."

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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.