Police Misconduct

State and county prosecutors say they are investigating an allegation that police officers in New Jersey assaulted a man “without provocation” in December. Officials said Monday that the public integrity and accountability office of the New Jersey attorney general’s office will be investigating along with Passaic County prosecutors. Officials said the case concerns allegations of assault by Paterson officers...

State and county prosecutors say they are investigating an allegation that police officers in New Jersey assaulted a man “without provocation” in December. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine minutes until he died a year ago.

The head of the NYPD’s workplace discrimination office has opted to retire days after having been suspended without pay for 30 days after investigators say he posted hateful messages to a website where cops air grievances anonymously. Deputy Inspector James Kobel was relieved of his command in early November after he was accused of penning attacks on Black and Jewish…

The Queens District Attorney’s Office is investigating a weekend arrest where an NYPD officer was witnessed kneeling on a man’s neck, a maneuver prohibited by city lawmakers following the murder of George Floyd, for over a minute. Sircarlyle Arnold of Elmont, Long Island, was stopped by police Saturday in Queens for allegedly riding an all-terrain vehicle with a group...

Sircarlyle Arnold of Elmont, Long Island, was stopped by police Saturday in Queens for allegedly riding an all-terrain vehicle with a group of others as part of a vigil for a friend who died, according to his attorney Olayemi Olurin.

Authorities are investigating after video shows the arrest of a man by an NYPD officer who kneeled on the man’s neck for over a minute.

Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018

The head of the NYPD’s workplace discrimination office has been relieved of his command while officials investigate allegations he posted hateful messages to a website where cops air grievances anonymously, the police chief said Thursday. A day later, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that if the investigation finds the allegations to be true, Deputy Inspector James Kobel “will be...

New information on a top NYPD officer accused of posting racist, anti-semitic and homophobic comments on the web. The officer in charge of equal employment and opportunity denies it. But the Councilman who helped expose the posts says the links are clear. Chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst has new details on the case.

The head of the New York Police Department’s workplace discrimination office has been relieved of command while officials investigate whether he posted hateful messages to a website where officers anonymously air grievances.

Two police officers in Asbury Park, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to Criminal Mischief admitting they vandalized two vehicles belonging to a victim filed a complaint against them.

A drug called ketamine that’s injected as a sedative during arrests has drawn new scrutiny since a young Black man named Elijah McClain died in suburban Denver

Experts say collective bargaining agreements between officer unions and cities can stand in the way of accountability

The Legal Aid Society is demanding two NYPD officers be fired after they allegedly used excessive force in the form of punching, choking and macing a homeless man who was sleeping on the subway, the group claims.

A Buffalo police officer who was seen on camera intimidating a witness during an arrest had been suspended four times and is the subject for three dozens misconduct complaints.

An upstate New York police officer who was suspended earlier this month following a viral video of him calling a woman a vile expletive had been suspended four times and had dozens of misconduct complaints against him. The Investigative Post reported Wednesday that Buffalo police Lt. Michael A. DeLong had a lengthy disciplinary record involving domestic incidents, violation of procedures,…

A New York City police officer was suspended without pay Sunday after he was recorded putting his arm around a man’s neck in what the police commissioner called an “apparent chokehold.”

Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, spoke out about the killing of George Floyd, saying, “It’s like my son was saying, ‘Mama, do something about this.'” Carr’s son died in 2014 after being placed in a police chokehold.

Days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, people took to the streets in protest in dozens of cities around the country