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Philly DA Announces Assault Charges Against Police Dept Inspector, and Detective in Attack on Man with Asperger Syndrome

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|Date: April 06, 2021
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Philly DA Announces Assault Charges Against Police Dept Inspector, and Detective in Attack on Man with Asperger Syndrome

By Julia Asby PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has filed criminal charges ...

By Julia Asby PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has filed criminal charges against Philadelphia Police Dept Inspector James Smith and former Det. Patrick Smith for the as ...

April 06, 2021
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Gascón Lays Out Record for First 100 Days of Reform as LA District Attorney, Projecting Hundreds of Millions in Savings

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|Date: March 18, 2021
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Gascón Lays Out Record for First 100 Days of Reform as LA District Attorney, Projecting Hundreds of Millions in Savings

By David M. Greenwald Marking 100 days in office, Los Angeles DA George Gascón took the opportunity to h ...

By David M. Greenwald Marking 100 days in office, Los Angeles DA George Gascón took the opportunity to highlight what he considers to be a tremendous record of accomplishment for reforms enacted sinc ...

March 18, 2021
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Student Opinion: LAPD’s Offensive George Floyd “Valentine’s” Card Is Not Out of Character

Posted by Cailin Garcia
|Date: February 23, 2021
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Student Opinion: LAPD’s Offensive George Floyd “Valentine’s” Card Is Not Out of Character

By Ivana Ramirez LOS ANGELES — Militaristic. Racist. Cruel. These are just a few of the words used to des ...

By Ivana Ramirez LOS ANGELES — Militaristic. Racist. Cruel. These are just a few of the words used to describe the Los Angeles Police Department’s tendencies. Now, cementing their reputation, the LAPD ...

February 23, 2021
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Teen Beaten By Stockton Police Looks To File Suit

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|Date: January 07, 2021
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Teen Beaten By Stockton Police Looks To File Suit

By David M. Greenwald Attorneys for a 17 year old High School Senior in Stockton says on December 30 at 1 ...

By David M. Greenwald Attorneys for a 17 year old High School Senior in Stockton says on December 30 at 11 pm, the Black youth with no juvenile criminal record was stopped by Stockton police. They cl ...

January 07, 2021
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Bronx Defenders Wonder If There Will Be Real Action after Report on NYPD Violence and Misconduct during George Floyd Protests

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|Date: January 05, 2021
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Bronx Defenders Wonder If There Will Be Real Action after Report on NYPD Violence and Misconduct during George Floyd Protests

By Carlin Ross NEW YORK - The New York City Department of Investigation has released its report on the NY ...

By Carlin Ross NEW YORK - The New York City Department of Investigation has released its report on the NY Police Dept. misconduct during this summer’s protests against the killing of George Floyd and ...

January 05, 2021
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Denver Independent Monitor Releases Review Critical of Police Response to George Floyd Protests

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|Date: December 28, 2020
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Denver Independent Monitor Releases Review Critical of Police Response to George Floyd Protests

By Julietta Bisharyan, Linh Nguyen, and Lauren Smith DENVER – The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis p ...

By Julietta Bisharyan, Linh Nguyen, and Lauren Smith DENVER – The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, followed by the murder of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police on March 13, gar ...

December 28, 2020
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SF PD Officer Charged by District Attorney with Multiple Felonies for Brutal Baton Beating of Black Man More than a Year Ago

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|Date: December 14, 2020
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SF PD Officer Charged by District Attorney with Multiple Felonies for Brutal Baton Beating of Black Man More than a Year Ago

SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco Police Dept officer – accused of beating a man with his baton on October ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco Police Dept officer – accused of beating a man with his baton on October 7, 2019 so badly it broke his leg and wrist – now is facing felony charges after San Francisco ...

December 14, 2020
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Seattle Office of Police Accountability Releases Five Completed Investigations of Alleged Police Misconduct

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|Date: October 28, 2020
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Seattle Office of Police Accountability Releases Five Completed Investigations of Alleged Police Misconduct

By Tiffany Devlin SEATTLE - Across the country, since late May, there have been large and noisy demonstra ...

By Tiffany Devlin SEATTLE - Across the country, since late May, there have been large and noisy demonstrations protesting the police killing of Black men and women by law enforcement, including the mu ...

October 28, 2020
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Reform Philly DA Charges, Arrests Former Police Sgt for Beating Protestors

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|Date: October 25, 2020
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Reform Philly DA Charges, Arrests Former Police Sgt for Beating Protestors

By Mia Machado PHILADELPHIA- Reform Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced late this last ...

By Mia Machado PHILADELPHIA- Reform Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced late this last week the arrest and charging of former Police Sergeant Matthew Sinkiewicz, for his alleged inv ...

October 25, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part X – Discipline of Law Enforcement for Misconduct Nearly Nonexistent

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|Date: September 30, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part X – Discipline of Law Enforcement for Misconduct Nearly Nonexistent

(This is the 10th of an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by S ...

(This is the 10th of an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Kelsea Valerio R ...

September 30, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part VII – Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors at Trial Cause of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: September 27, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part VII – Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors at Trial Cause of Wrongful Convictions

(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced b ...

(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Linhchi Nguye ...

September 27, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part II in the Series – Frequency of Official Misconduct/ Characteristics of Misconduct and Its Disparities

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|Date: September 22, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part II in the Series – Frequency of Official Misconduct/ Characteristics of Misconduct and Its Disparities

(This is the second in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations as produced ...

(This is the second in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations as produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Layla Musta ...

September 22, 2020
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Comprehensive Study Shows Official Misconduct Major Cause of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: September 20, 2020
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Comprehensive Study Shows Official Misconduct Major Cause of Wrongful Convictions

By Linhchi Nguyen Research indicates that among all cases where defendants were convicted of crimes in th ...

By Linhchi Nguyen Research indicates that among all cases where defendants were convicted of crimes in the United States and later exonerated by new evidence of innocence, over half of these wrongful ...

September 20, 2020
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Guest Commentary: After Atlanta Teen Is Injured in a Police Encounter, Lawyers Call for Change

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|Date: September 19, 2020
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Guest Commentary: After Atlanta Teen Is Injured in a Police Encounter, Lawyers Call for Change

By Joshua Vaughn The 17-year-old, who his lawyers say was pushed off a fence by a police officer, survive ...

By Joshua Vaughn The 17-year-old, who his lawyers say was pushed off a fence by a police officer, survived the fall but suffered serious injuries. Robert was a football player. The 17-year-old was hea ...

September 19, 2020
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Yolo DA’s Office Hires Deputy Found to Have Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct in Another County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 09, 2020
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Yolo DA’s Office Hires Deputy Found to Have Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct in Another County

By David M. Greenwald Once again, Yolo County has hired a prosecutor from another county who was found t ...

By David M. Greenwald Once again, Yolo County has hired a prosecutor from another county who was found to have committed prosecutorial misconduct. Last fall, they hired David Wilson, who had been a ...

September 09, 2020
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Seven Police Officers Suspended as New Evidence Comes to Light in Daniel Prude Death

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|Date: September 04, 2020
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Seven Police Officers Suspended as New Evidence Comes to Light in Daniel Prude Death

Family Alleges He Was Treated Like a “Damn Animal” by Rochester Police By Linhchi Nguyen New raw video in ...

Family Alleges He Was Treated Like a “Damn Animal” by Rochester Police By Linhchi Nguyen New raw video in the March death of Daniel Prude has surfaced, leading to additional publicity and allegations ...

September 04, 2020
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Police Reform in Senate Bill 731 Would License Cops Like Lawyers and Doctors

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|Date: August 27, 2020
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Police Reform in Senate Bill 731 Would License Cops Like Lawyers and Doctors

By Phoebe Glick STATE CAPITOL – California Senate Bill 731 has been introduced here, and it promises to a ...

By Phoebe Glick STATE CAPITOL – California Senate Bill 731 has been introduced here, and it promises to address bad cops who manage to dodge discipline and get hired by another law enforcement agency ...

August 27, 2020
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CA Public Safety Committee OK’s Host of Bills Aimed at Police Brutality

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|Date: August 19, 2020
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CA Public Safety Committee OK’s Host of Bills Aimed at Police Brutality

By Heather Hamilton STATE CAPITOL – The California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety here has b ...

By Heather Hamilton STATE CAPITOL – The California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety here has been approving legislation designed to reduce police abuse. These are just some of the measures ...

August 19, 2020
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District Court Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Eliminate Qualified Immunity

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 11, 2020
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District Court Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Eliminate Qualified Immunity

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider MISSISSIPPI – District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District o ...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider MISSISSIPPI – District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi delivered a powerful message condemning the United States’ “qualified immunity” d ...

August 11, 2020
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Update on the Portland Protests (Video)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 29, 2020
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Update on the Portland Protests (Video)

Vanguard reporter Roman Mendoza has been on the ground at the Portland protests for the past few days. H ...

Vanguard reporter Roman Mendoza has been on the ground at the Portland protests for the past few days. Here is his latest round of video. To sign up for our new newsletter - Everyday Injustice - http ...

July 29, 2020
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