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This Prosecutor Pledged to Change George Floyd’s City. Her Critics Are Circling.
New York Times· 5 days agoMary Moriarty, a former public defender, became Minneapolis’s top prosecutor last year after...
Ron Kim promises to support police after years of backing defund movement
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoCritics...have at times called for accountability, but that goes hand-in-hand with improving public ...
‘Tough-on-crime’ policies are back in some places that had reimagined criminal justice
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFueled by public outrage over the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and...
New book looks at Des Moines police response to 2020 protests, asks for better relationship
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 week agoDes Moines became the site of more than 40 protests that summer...interactions with police while...
Public safety group finds FBI violent crime data is higher than initially reported
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe report places the blame for the high crime rate on soft-on-crime initiatives, which falls in...
Where gun violence is common, some students say physical safety is a top concern
NPR· 6 hours agom talking to an alien, basically." In 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in this same city. ...school district ended its contract with ...
Mpls. wants to turn burned Third Precinct into 'democracy center' and 'community space'
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 2 weeks agoOn Monday, City Operations Officer Margaret Anderson... with a plan that would split the precinct...
Cities with Black women police chiefs had less street violence during 2020’s Black Lives Matter...
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoAfter George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement surged. Most demonstrations were peaceful ...
Opinion | Tom Cotton’s public protest hypocrisy could end very, very badly
MSNBC· 2 days agoCotton, R-Ark., must have trouble tracking his views on public protest. In a 2020 New York Times...
Data shows how often local police officers use force
Dayton Daily News· 5 days agoThe use of force in policing has long been a hot-button topic, but stricter scrutiny has been placed on the practice since the death of George Floyd in...