Despite Overall Homicide Drop in Chicago, Fatal Violence Still Climbing in Disenfranchised Neighborhoods

While Chicago is poised to see a double-digit percentage drop in homicides in 2023, with the Chicago Police Department reporting that homicide detectives have opened 569 murder investigations, a 12 percent decrease... Read more »

Retired St. Louis Homicide Detective Refuses To Speak in Court, Jeopardizing Multiple Cases

Over the past two years, prosecutors in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office have been unable to get retired homicide detective Thomas W. Mayer Sr. into a courtroom, causing multiple cases to... Read more »

Minneapolis PD Promotes Officer Disciplined For a Racist Email to Head of Homicide

Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the... Read more »

Judge Upholds Negligent Homicide Charge in Deadly Arrest of Ronald Greene

A Louisiana judge is allowing the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against one of the troopers involved in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, reports Jim Mustian... Read more »
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