March 29, 2022 · moindependent
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is requesting billions in its fiscal 2023 budget from Congress to fund police departments,…
October 21, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
SEATTLE (AP) — Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson…
May 3, 2021 · moindependent
Ten days after Michael Brown, it was 25-year-old Kajieme Powell. Two months later, it was 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers Jr. All…
April 21, 2021 · jaco
St. Louis may end up being in decent shape if Mayor Tishaura Jones inherited her old man’s b.s. detector. So…
January 1, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020, leading to scores of new laws that…
September 15, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and…
July 15, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
(AP) — Missouri lawmakers will reconvene later this month to consider ways to stem the escalating violence that has become…
June 23, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly want clear standards on when police officers may use force and consequences for officers who…
June 12, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — Seattle officers hold down a protester, and one repeatedly punches him in the face. In another…
June 8, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats proposed on Monday a far-reaching overhaul of police procedures and accountability, a sweeping legislative response to…
February 18, 2019 · jaco
The real national emergency is 1,038 miles northeast of the Mexican border, near the corner of Oriole and Thekla, where…