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After Chauvin's guilty verdict: A trial for American policing, the struggle for public trust begins anew Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY When Michael Brown, a Black teenager, was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, a special White House panel quickly offered up a wave of reforms expected to help guide law enforcement through the most fraught encounters. The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing produced 59 recommendations, following testimony from 140 witnesses. “Building trust and legitimacy on both sides of the police-citizen divide is not only the ...

SHARE: Last year, during a summer of protests against police violence following the killing of George Floyd, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council announced a $1 billion cut to the New York City Police Department’s budget, roughly half of which was achieved through shifting costs to other agencies. Of the actual spending reductions, 75% would come from reduced spending on NYPD overtime. The cap on overtime, which previously stood at about $600 million a year, was slashed to $253 million for fiscal year 2021. Critics who waged a monthslong campaign to defund the police imme...

When it comes to the intention of music, the goal is often to elicit an emotion from its listeners. This emotion varies depending on the music, reliant on the overall composition and production of the piece. Emotions that are visible in most modern music today include happiness, sadness and anger. But there is one emotion commonly forgotten when it comes to music. Fear. Daughters started as an ordinary mathcore and grindcore band around 2002. The band formed after the break-up of a similar band, As the Sun Sets. The band’s only consistent members during their original formation in the early...

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones has introduced a package of criminal justice bills that includes a repeal of the Maryland Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, state Senate President Bill Ferguson has signaled his support for repeal and other top Democrats appear on board.

Outside investigations of police shootings up for negotiation in KCPD union contract Glenn E. Rice, The Kansas City Star Feb. 2—On a summer day last year, with protests ongoing at the Country Club Plaza, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker arrived at a scene where a police officer had shot and killed a man. At the protests, which had been going on for two weeks in Kansas City, demonstrators were chanting the names of Black men gunned down by police. Questions about how the police could effectively investigate themselves were burning. And here at 23rd Street and Liste...