A federal judge ruled to replace a private attorney who monitors the Memphis Police Department with two lawyers employed by ...
A memo sent by President Donald Trump's administration is asking for all civil rights investigations to be put on hold.
The DOJ has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reforms negotiated by the Biden ...
A memo states that officials are implementing the freeze to be “consistent with the Department’s goal of ensuring that the ...
The Memphis City Council Tuesday reappointed Cerelyn "C.J." Davis as police chief. She spent the previous year as MPD's ...
Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...
That directive suggests that police-reform agreements the Justice Department has negotiated with cities including Minneapolis, Louisville and Memphis could be in jeopardy. The first memo doesn’t ...
The Justice Department has been ordered not to pursue new cases, settlements or legal action in ongoing cases, according to ...
Justice Department investigations, often launched after controversial police killings, show how other forms of abusive policing can harm communities.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s new leaders at the Justice Department ... Settlements were reached with police departments in Minneapolis, Louisville and Memphis during that period ...
Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced officers ... managing director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program; David N.