Police Reform

The Village of Hempstead on Long Island has formed the police reform and reinvention committee, consisting of members from law enforcement, religion, and the community, in an effort to improve police practices and strengthen community relations. News Four’s Pei-Sze Cheng has the latest community reactions to the effort

An anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has revealed that the jury was never asked to consider charges directly linked to her death. Attorney Michael Starr Hopkins joined LX News to discuss what may come next in the case, and said more charges against the police officers involved in her shooting are still possible.

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...

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...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is promising to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates.

A federal appeals court has agreed to keep the release of New York City police disciplinary records on pause while public safety unions fight a lower-court decision that had cleared the way for their disclosure

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

The Bergen County police academy is introducing new training methods they hope will make the next generations of cops far less likely to act as other police did with Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, Michael Floyd and others. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

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...

Included in the complaints are: 18,000 complaints about “nasty words,” cursing or ethnic and homophobic slurs; 2,200 claims of officers using flashlights, radios or guns to beat people; 5,400 instances of guns allegedly being pulled or pointed; and more than 1,700 chokehold complaints

The decision from the state Supreme Court found that municipalities in New Jersey may create police oversight boards, but that those boards may not have subpoena power and that their investigations may not happen at the same time as the police department’s own internal investigation of misconduct

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.