U.S. officials said the most likely short-term cyber impact would be spillover of any cyberattack by Russia against Ukraine.
Author: Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
Rape survivors, child victims, consensual sex partners: San Francisco police have used DNA from all of them for 7 years
The San Francisco Police Department’s use of sexual assault DNA profiles to ID survivors as suspects was “absolutely wrong,” experts told USA TODAY.
No-knock warrants: A growing legacy of controversy, revised laws, tragic deaths
Since March 2020, no-knock warrants have been banned or their use limited across the U.S., including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Minneapolis.
Biased tweets? Politically-gridlocked civil rights commission squabbles over what to share with public.
A Republican appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights proposed that public information only be shared if it receives a majority vote.
They were trusted to train law enforcement officers, but they were members of an anti-government militia group
65 people on an Oath Keepers sign-up list described themselves as trainers, showing how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments.
Philadelphia police seized their property. Most were never convicted of a crime. Most never got their stuff back.
A survey confirms arguments that civil asset forfeiture mostly ensnares law-abiding, low-income people of color, not large, criminal enterprises.
New California police accountability law will strip bad cops of badges, won’t end immunity from lawsuits
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the police accountability bill known as Senate Bill 2 Thursday.
’71 gets a gun’: Graduates of Washington’s police training academy unprepared to patrol streets, law enforcement leaders say
In 2019, a consultant said instruction at the state training academy was inadequate. The problems remain, according to law enforcement officials.
Analysis: ‘White America can keep kicking Derek Chauvin,’ but what does it mean for systemic change?
The question is whether Chauvin’s prison sentence changes a thing for Black men and people of color who are disproportionately killed by police.
Derek Chauvin faces up to 30 years in prison in Friday sentencing for murder of George Floyd
More than a year after George Floyd took his last breath, Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering him, will face a Minnesota judge for sentencing.