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Why Police Accountability Is Personal for This Manhattan D.A. Candidate Alvin Bragg has had encounters with the police both in the streets and in the courts. He wants to change the system from within. Alvin Bragg has stressed the overlap between his own life story and issues of race and policing in his run for Manhattan district attorney. Credit...Andrew Seng for The New York Times May 12, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET The first time Alvin Bragg began thinking about police accountability was not long after an officer put a gun to his head, when he was a 15-year-old in Harlem in the 1980s.

Attorney General's report on fatal shooting of Schenectady man clears officers FacebookTwitterEmail A view of the Schenectady Police station. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)PAUL BUCKOWSKI/Albany Times Union SCHENECTADY — The officers who shot and killed a Schenectady man last March will not face criminal charges. The justification for shooting Michael Wallace “could not be disproven beyond a reasonable doubt,” according to the findings of a special investigation released by the state Attorney General’s Office on Thursday. Two officers opened fire on Wallace, 34, after he pointed a pell...

Why outside prosecutors review killings by police Updated 8:33 AM; By Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press A white former police officer is being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, just three days after the Black man was shot during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. The swift probe and announcement of a charge against Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran and training officer, was handled by a prosecutor from outside Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where Potter shot Wright. The decision to hand over the case was made almost immediately by He...

BOSTON (AP) — A white former police officer is being charged with second-degree...

A Special Unit to Prosecute Police Killings Has No Convictions The case of Daniel Prude’s death is the latest example of the challenges prosecutors face when they try to hold police officers accountable. A protest erupted in Rochester, N.Y., on Tuesday night after it was announced that the officers involved in Daniel Prude’s death would not face charges.Credit...Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021 More than five years ago, Andrew M. Cuomo, the governor of New York, signed an executive order to address a persistent concern: Police off...