The Latest Breaking News from Police Department

LOS ANGELES — It all started with a scuffle during a girls' basketball game last month at Centennial High School in Corona.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Congress must act to pass national police reform, Vice President Kamala Harris told mourners at the Wednesday funeral of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died after being beaten bloody by Memphis police officers last month.

All nine mayoral candidates have released at least a brief public safety plan — or, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s case, touted what she posed as her achievements in office.

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Review-Journal is asking a judge to impose sanctions on the Metropolitan Police Department for not informing the newspaper that investigators have searched the cellphone of slain reporter Jeff German.

The city has not granted a single permit since the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June.

MINNEAPOLIS — Activists and community members voiced outrage at a rally outside Brooklyn Center City Hall on Monday evening to denounce what they call a hyper-militarized video produced by the Police Department to recruit officers to the force.

CHICAGO — Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department’s 26th District faced widespread criticism in June 2020, after its officers stood by as white vigilantes with bats and hammers terrorized Black Lives Matter protesters in Fishtown.

CHICAGO — After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago has begun to see a decline in homicides, as the Chicago Police Department works to correct crime trends to levels before the coronavirus and turmoil over the killing of George Floyd took hold.