Above the Law

Where The Candidates Stand On Police Accountability And Reform

With the election right around the corner, the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), a non-profit dedicated to ending law enforcement abuse through legal action and educational programming, ...

Mayor Mamdani takes aim at NYPD use of force policies, announces changes to improve police accountability

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday is expected to announce a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while announcing ...
Good Men Project

The Law Often Shields Police Officers From Accountability – And Reinforces Policing That Harms Black People, Homeless People and the Mentally Ill

Seeking accountability in the brutal police beating death of her son, the mother of Tyre Nichols has filed a US$55 million federal lawsuit against the individual officers, the Memphis Police ...
NewsOne

How The Lack Of Police Accountability Is Harmful To Black People

Seeking accountability in the brutal police beating death of her son, the mother of Tyre Nichols has filed a US$55 million federal lawsuit against the individual officers, the Memphis Police ...
City & State New York

Under Adams and Sewell, advocates allege rollback in police accountability

Although New York City police commissioner Keechant Sewell reportedly met resistance from City Hall after attempting to impose discipline on a high-ranking police official, she didn’t develop a ...
The Baltimore Sun

Howard County has 2 police overseers: 1 is mandated, the other self-deputized

Howard County has two forces overseeing police conduct — the state-mandated Police Accountability Board and a grassroots, community-formed Police Accountability Task Force that aims to hold the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Police accountability boards necessary but could be better

The letter by Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler on police accountability boards raises valid concerns, but is incomplete and unconstructive (“Sheriff Gahler: Police accountability boards don’t know ...
Mercury News

Berkeley council to consider police oversight, accountability reforms

BERKELEY — More than two years after “racist” texts among some Berkeley Police Department officers were exposed, the Police Accountability Board is seeking clearer support from the council to conduct ...
The Hill

Police accountability is a bipartisan issue. Don’t let it become a prop in our political theater

The House of Representatives recently voted on a joint resolution disapproving of a recently passed police accountability bill in Washington, D.C. — the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform ...
The Boston Globe

Boston’s police oversight agency has not met expectations. Its director says that’s about to change.

On a recent Friday morning, Evandro Carvalho set up a meet-and-greet at a diner on Bowdoin Street, waving the banner of the city Office of Police Accountability and Transparency. He was there to ...
The Columbian

Why police accountability efforts failed again in the Washington Legislature

For a second year in a row, Washington police accountability advocates have seen their priorities fall flat in Olympia. They entered this year’s session wanting to grant the attorney general stronger ...