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Law enforcement officers shall have the opportunity to comment in writing on any adverse materials placed in his or her personnel file. Law enforcement officers cannot be subject to retaliation for the exercise of these or any other rights under Federal, or State. As of April 2015, the following U.S. states have enacted legislation to codify ...
Later case law has interpreted Frazier v. Cupp as the case permitting police deception during interrogations. The language of the ruling did not specifically state which forms of police deception were acceptable, but the ruling provided a precedent for a confession being voluntary even though deceptive tactics were used.
The 1969 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or ...
The city’s law was enacted as governments across the country prohibited or severely limited the use of chokeholds or similar restraints by police following Floyd’s death in 2020, which ...
Springfield Police Officer Gino Maldonado removes the BolaWrap Remote Restraint Device wrapped around the legs of Springfield Police Sgt. Jarod Maddox that fired a Kevlar cord, designed to wrap ...
On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old Black American girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. The white police officer, and his Black partner, had been dispatched to the location because there were "juveniles breaking in." When they arrived at the ...
Several years before George Floyd, a black man, died after being placed in a controversial knee-on-neck hold by a former Minneapolis police officer, the NAACP began prodding the police department ...