Despite taxpayers spending millions of dollars to outfit police officers across the country with body-worn cameras, an effort sold as the key to transparency and accountability in policing, a recent survey shows... Read more »
The family of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he called 911 and asked for their help have launched a $5 million federal lawsuit against the city of Indianola,... Read more »
Federal prosecutors say they plan to retry former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor and four others during the March 2020 police raid that... Read more »
A Decade After Their Implementation, Are Police Body Cams Delivering Transparency or Accountability?
Police have undermined the promise of transparency and accountability that accompanied the body-camera movement that began a decade ago, reports Eric Umansky for the New York Times. Costing hundreds of millions of... Read more »
Washington D.C. police have begun handing out free AirTags for iPhone users and Tile trackers for people using Android in their latest effort to tackle the ongoing rise in carjackings in the... Read more »
Kenyan law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Kenya. Ashley Genga is JURIST’s Senior Correspondent in Kenya, and Griffins Ogada is a Staff Correspondent. Both of them... Read more »
Police in Burlington, Vermont have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of three Palestinian college students and are investigating the shooting as a possibly “hate-motivated” crime, Abigail Hauslohner and Hannah... Read more »
German police announced Thursday that they searched 20 apartments of suspects linked to the far-right Reichsbürger movement. The movement has been accused of attempting to destabilize the Federal Republic of Germany and... Read more »
The German Federal Ministry of the Interior conducted raids on 16 properties that belonged to members and supporters of Hamas and Samidoun on Thursday. The extensive search resulted in the seizure of... Read more »
