The Latest Breaking News from Police Department

CHICAGO — After Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot downplayed her administration’s slow implementation of police reforms during a speech in 2020, a lawyer for the Illinois attorney general responded in court by criticizing the city’s handling of the consent decree.

PHILADELPHIA — Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has vowed to investigate and punish Philadelphia police officers who are abusing a generous state disability benefit at a time when hundreds of officers say they are too injured to work.

NEW YORK — New York Police Department officers trying to get a handle on the spate of gun violence plaguing neighborhoods across the city have run up against a special brand of warfare inflamed by riotous rap lyrics.

CHICAGO — The shooting of Laquan McDonald triggered a momentous police reform effort that spawned a scathing Justice Department report and an extensive consent decree and for the first time added community members directly into Chicago police oversight.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department instructed officers to ignore a watchdog report published by the city's civil rights division in 2018 that found several cases of police inappropriately asking paramedics to sedate uncooperative people during emergency calls, according to court testimony from the police department's former training commander.

Many candidates from within the Police Department, who appeared for the Karnataka State Police PSI written examination, have demanded a revaluation after the results were announced on Thursday, on the

Medical examiner released findings one day after family of Lauren Smith-Fields accused police department of being ‘racially insensitive’ in handling the investigation

Team Roc, the social justice arm of rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation, renewed its calls Tuesday for an intense investigation into alleged corruption in the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, saying there is no excuse to justify the Justice Department's "silence."

MIAMI — A sergeant from the Sunrise, Florida, Police Department has been relieved of his supervisory responsibilities and is the subject of an internal investigation after body cam footage from November released last week shows him grabbing an officer by her throat.

A federal court has allowed the case to go forward, including on a theory that the Department does this as a "pattern and practice."