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The Police Commissioner serves as the senior sworn member of the SLMPD. Prior to 1806, the position was known as the chief inspector and as the chief of police." [49] [verification needed] The Commissioner is the overall person in charge of the police department. Commissioner Robert J. Tracy is the 36th individual to hold the post as Police ...
The Louisiana State Police for years have used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits, a statewide pattern of misconduct that places the public at “serious risk of harm ...
The case made headlines and three officers were accused of racism and excessive use of force, but they were cleared by police investigators and the chief prosecutor. 21 November 2006: Kathryn Johnston was fatally shot in her house by three Atlanta, Georgia undercover police officers, during a drug raid. One of the officers planted marijuana in ...
The justices, in an unsigned decision, threw out a lower court ruling in favor of police that had concluded excessive force was not used, meaning the lawsuit was over. Nicholas Gilbert, 27, died ...
Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that a pretrial detainee must prove only that force used by police is excessive according to an objective standard, not that a police officer was subjectively aware that the force used was unreasonable.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The fatal 2019 arrest of unarmed Black motorist Ronald Greene and its aftermath demonstrated serious failures at Louisiana State Police like the use of excessive force and ...
After a police officer made two arrests near the police department, the crowd confronted the police line and broke windows. [ 19 ] Police response to protests was criticized as unconstitutional and excessive force by the American Civil Liberties Union following a video release of law enforcement officers chanting "Whose streets?
The family of an 18-year-old shot and killed by a now former Lake Worth police officer is suing the officer and the city for excessive use of force, according to the suit filed Monday in a federal ...