After the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, advocates for police reform called to defund the police, ban chokeholds and more effectively punish officers who abuse their power or show racial bias. Before any of those proposed reforms can actually go into effect, lawmakers and department chiefs would first have to get past police unions.Over…
As calls grow to defund or dismantle police departments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, questions about what that would look like -- especially in cities with high crime rates -- remain.In a Saturday interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend" with host Pete Hegseth, retired Dallas police officer C'mone Wingo said that imagining a city or…
Law enforcement officials are urging the Seattle Police Department to retake control of the East Precinct after hundreds of demonstrators overtook Monday the six-block area that surrounds it.Officers effectively abandoned the area during violent clashes with demonstrators calling to defund the police.Demonstrators have since set up occupancy in that section of downtown Seattle and have renamed it “Capitol Hill Autonomous…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…