We have huge challenges with people who have mental illness,’ says Miami-Dade Public Defender Carlos Martinez.

It demands systemic changes that restore public confidence and enables the police to fulfill their duties effectively and ethically. Cosmetic changes might provide a temporary morale boost, but they ...

Philly DA Larry Krasner announced a policy overhaul, while city and state leaders proposed sweeping youth justice reforms.

Kirby, like in the first meeting in August, said that in the first year of mandatory reforms the two main concerns are use of ...

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...

A new Department of Justice directive is calling the outcome of a damning Worcester police report into question. Here's what ...

The community meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, in the Vallejo Room at City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street. It ...

Similar police reform deals between the DOJ and police ... including management, training, misconduct investigations and discipline as well as health and support of officers.

An agreement that presumably ends litigation between the state’s policing oversight commission and law enforcement groups has been signed and sealed. But we’re not sure if one of the parties ...

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...