police reform

A city review of the investigation into a Boston police officer who stayed on the force for years despite being credibly accused of child molestation has led to new recommendations for keeping the department transparent. The Office of Police Accountability and Transparency’s report on the case of Patrick Rose was released Thursday, offering three recommendations about how the Boston...

Public officials in Lynn, Massachusetts, approved $500,000 for a pilot program to create an unarmed crisis response team as part of the city’s annual budget last month. Dubbed the All Lynn Emergency Response Team, or ALERT, the program is intended to improve response to mental health emergencies by offering an alternative to traditional policing. Crisis-response teams provide a behavioral health…

People took to the steps of the Massachusetts State House after Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison.

After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals and moved instead in the other direction

A total of 14 Massachusetts State Police troopers have reportedly been kicked off the force or resigned while under investigation in the past year for a variety of infractions including inappropriate texting, ethnic slurs and sloppy oversight of weapons. The dishonorable discharges were reported by the Boston Herald on Thursday, based on a public records request. One trooper was dismissed following...

Erroll Southers used to run background checks on police officer applicants and worked in law enforcement for decades. He says there should be a registry of officers’ past firings for misconduct – a database like that can help chiefs and police departments ensure they’re hiring someone with a good record in their community.

A family-friendly street festival was also planned at the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died. The intersection was disrupted by gunfire just hours before the event.

Chauvin’s arrest, trial and subsequent conviction were hailed as watershed moments. But now a year later following Floyd’s death the question must be asked… has anything actually changed?

In the year since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck, more than 260 bills have been approved in state legislatures to ban potentially deadly law enforcement practices

On the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis activists are still fighting for policy changes they say will help prevent another death due to excessive police force. And they’ve recently moved one step closer to their most ambitious goal — reforming the city charter to replace its police department with a department of public safely. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn...

In the days of slavery, Black people were commonly referred to as subhuman or inherently different than white people. Professor, attorney and former NJ Assistant Attorney General Shavar Jeffries says that racism was built into American law enforcement and manifests today as an attitude that Black people are “presumptively criminal.”

As the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder approaches, some people say the best way to honor him is for Congress to pass a bill in his name that overhauls policing

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed one of the nation’s most ambitious packages of police accountability legislation, prompted by last year’s outcry for racial justice.

Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April have approved a proposal to dramatically change the city’s policing practices.

Lawmakers in more than 20 states have considered bills this year to make the disciplinary records of police officers public

A Truro Democrat on Friday pushed members of a new commission studying qualified immunity to reach out and listen to a diverse set of voices, saying the group’s primarily white makeup needs to recognize the topic they are studying disproportionately impacts people of color. “I do really want to note the composition of this commission, at least in the...

President Joe Biden called on Congress to come together to enact police reform, referring to the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that recently passed the U.S. House. “We need to work together to find a consensus, but let’s get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death,” Biden said.

It’s been nearly a year since demonstrators in Boston took to the streets calling for an end to racism and violence in policing. But after those demonstrations, how much has changed? The NBC10 Boston Investigators put that question to officials in three Massachusetts communities, asking how they’ve implemented plans for police reform that surfaced in the wake of last...

After nearly a year of demonstrations calling for an end to racism and violence in policing, the NBC10 Boston Investigators take a look at how much has changed in a few local communities.

At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin