police reform

President Joe Biden is planning to sign executive actions on police reform as early as this month, three people familiar with the plans said, as his administration seeks to unilaterally jumpstart an issue that’s a top priority for a key constituency.

Some local politicians said they would cut funds allocated toward policing to boost social services. But a year later, those budgets have been restored or are even bigger

Almost a year and a half later, no one, it seems, is happy. Not even the councilor who proposed the resolution.

“I do think that people were on the other side because of disinformation…the other thing is, people cannot sometimes imagine something different. We are stuck with these paradigms about ‘police keep us safe'” but many Black Americans do not feel safe around the police. Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the civil rights organization The Advancement Project, unpacks how Minneapolis...

Police accountability activists are vowing to keep fighting for change despite the failure of a ballot proposal to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a reimagined public safety unit

This story was updated on Nov. 3, 2021, at 5:20 p.m. ET. Minneapolis residents hit the polls yesterday to vote for mayor, ultimately reelecting Democrat incumbent Jacob Frey, and to weigh in on several ballot measures, one of which would’ve replaced the city’s police department with a “Department of Public Safety.” Results of the police reform ballot measure came in…

Minneapolis voters have rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety — an idea that arose from the May 2020 death of George Floyd

Several police reform bills may change the way policing is done in the state, reports NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar

The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has sparked a national conversation on police reform, ranging from defunding departments to enhancing training

Philadelphia police disproportionately pull over Black drivers for minor offenses like a broken taillight, but those stops don’t do much to reduce violent crime – a gun or drugs are found about 1% of the time. Under the Driving Equality Bill that recently passed City Council, drivers would get a ticket in the mail for those minor violations –...

A proposal on the Minneapolis ballot about the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed has its roots in the “defund the police” movement

NBC 7’s Amber Frias spoke to the cousin of a man killed by San Diego deputies about California’s newest police reform bills.

After years spent demanding justice and working so that no other family would have to feel her pain, Rocio Zamora is celebrating. “To be able to see the tangible change that we created, despite the torment of losing a loved one to police terror is really powerful,” said Zamora. She said her hard work and dedication to try and put…

Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have centered on policing tactics, not on racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without agreement

After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals and moved instead in the other direction

Erroll Southers used to run background checks on police officer applicants and worked in law enforcement for decades. He says there should be a registry of officers’ past firings for misconduct – a database like that can help chiefs and police departments ensure they’re hiring someone with a good record in their community.

NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas reached out to SDPD after discovering carotid restraint training material was given to an SDPD recruit despite the hold being banned by the department nearly a year ago.

The carotid restraint is banned throughout California, but NBC 7 Investigates found it was still being included in training material for SDPD recruits almost a year later.