President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve accountability in policing — a meaningful but limited action on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.
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Consent decrees have been credited with bringing significant reform in some places but scorned by critics elsewhere as ineffective and a waste of taxpayer money.
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Police officers responding to a disturbance at a Maryland home fatally shot a man who moved quickly toward them with two knives, officials said.
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Two Maryland police officers shot and wounded a man with a knife during a call for a person experiencing mental health issues, police said.
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Detectives involved in a shooting that left a 19-year-old man wounded last month will not face charges, Baltimore County's state’s attorney said.
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The Harford County Sheriff’s Office must cede its investigation into an April 23 police shooting to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, a county judge ruled Thursday. The ruling is the first judicial test for a 2021 law that granted Attorney ...
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The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination, according to the findings released Wednesday.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh sought a court order on Monday to stop the Harford County Sheriff’s Office from “interfering” with a legally required investigation by his office of a fatal police-involved shooting.
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A Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya after a traffic stop pressed the gun against his head when firing the fatal shot, an expert who performed an independent autopsy said.
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A Black man facedown on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer.
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