In 2018, Oakland enacted an innovative law giving citizens a voice in police use of surveillance technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it “the new gold standard in community control of ...

KMBC9S MICHEAL MAHONEY AS THE LATEST. THE CASE IS ABOUT WHO WILL CONTROL A PART OF BUT NOT ALL OF THE LIPOCE DEPARTMENT BUDGET THE POLICE COMMISSION OR CITY HALL. THIS IS A LAWIT ASUBOUT JEFFERSON ...

The residents of Baltimore have waited 163 years to take back control of their city police department. Now, they may wait at least one more. The city’s Local Control Advisory Board, the group that ...

In 2020, calls to defund the police echoed a longstanding argument in critical criminology in favour of police abolition. Academics who support abolition promote activism over collaboration. But as ...

ANNAPOLIS. TO GAIN LOCAL CONTROL. OVER THE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. DEBORAH: YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT THE STATE CURRENTLY RUNS THE AGENCY. >> THE BALTIMORE POLICE APARTMENT BECAME A STATE AGENCY AFTER ...

Kansas City Police officers fill the chambers at department headquarters downtown to listen to a Board of Police Commissioners meeting in December 2021. An NPR’s Midwest Newsroom poll conducted by ...

ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Wednesday signed the bill that would return the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to state control. Kehoe signed House Bill 495 into law Wednesday at his ...

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to extend his administration’s takeover of Washington D.C.’s police force past the 30 days he’s initially been granted—but the president will need ...