On Tuesday’s “Fox News Primetime,” former Police Commissioner of Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Bill Bratton said he wouldn’t take a job as a police chief in a major city now “Because the ability to succeed in this climate is
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) discussed negotiations on police reform and said that he’s against lowering the threshold for prosecuting police officers and increasing the amount of military equipment police departments can’t use. Scott
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that the biggest problem with policing is recruiting, not training, and “and we’ve got to pay better salaries. You’re not going to get good people
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said that he agrees with the International Criminal Court investigating the American criminal justice system and “if we have nothing to hide, we shouldn’t worry about what
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes there was no evidence George Floyd was a victim of a “hate crime” or racial bias.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Weekends with Alex Witt,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air” and that “Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day.” Beatty said, “We
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) stated that “it’s appalling” that police officers are trained to always shoot for the center of the body, and if Ma’Khia Bryant “had a water gun,
During an interview with ABC News released on Wednesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said that the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH was a situation “where a taser should have been used, and yet a gun
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid discussed the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH and remarked that she remembers fights in school where a kid had a knife “and teachers were able to
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said that the conviction of Derek Chauvin “was an anomaly” and we have cases like George Floyd’s “happening all day, every day.” Boudin stated, “[T]he verdict yesterday in
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” host Brian Williams discussed the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH and said that while a knife is visible in the body camera footage of the shooting, the officer “fired
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said that the “reckless and disgusting” comments by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) are “shameful” for “communities of color and other places
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there is racial bias in policing” but that progress can be made with reforms like eliminating chokeholds, cutting down on pretextual stops, better data collection, and removing barriers to investigating
During a discussion on recent police shootings on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that part of the problem in law enforcement is that legislatures, in an attempt to justify their existence “write dumb laws, and
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) call for “no more policing” by saying that “common sense” is the Democratic Party’s biggest weakness. Maher stated, “She’s calling for ‘no more policing’
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said Friday that if police were killing the children of white people, “this would have ended a long time ago.”
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama voiced Tuesday their support to “reimagine policing” in American communities in reaction to the latest police shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. “Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting
Two national exit polls showed that voters ranked issues of racial equality and policing far below their concerns about the faltering economy and the coronavirus disease.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the 2020 Republican National Convention on Tuesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell stated that there isn’t any room in the GOP to address the Jacob Blake shooting and Republicans “don’t have any recommendations about what to do about
Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, the black man who died last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, is asking the United Nations to investigate policing in the United States for racism and “police brutality.”
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) saying the House bill on policing reform is not going anywhere in the Senate is “dangerous.”
Joe Biden lost his composure when a moderator from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed some “younger people are concerned” about the candidate’s positions on policing.
Award-winning journalist Lara Logan, during a Wednesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussed what she described as the “completely and utterly dishonest” narrative on racial justice and policing driven by the left and stressed that they are recycling “tactics of information warfare” that were used during the 2016 election.
Former Obama official and Democrat presidential candidate Julián Castro has introduced an extensive plan designed to combat “police brutality” in the United States.
Ministers have ruled out dropping the “reasonable grounds” requirement for stop and search following left-wing outcry that the tactic is “racist”, despite police pleas to widen the powers.
The incoming head of the Police Federation has warned UK forces are increasingly unable to investigate some crimes, that forces in some areas are “broken”, and that the public is being failed.
As forces in Britain declare tackling so-called hate crime a “priority”, the police watchdog has released a report revealing officers are taking days to respond to emergency calls.
The police commander tasked with tackling female genital mutilation has excused the lack of convictions for the crime by saying it has “many nuances”.
British police have been subjected to widespread derision after appearing to suggest that bumping into someone “under the mistletoe” without consent is rape.
Police are “letting [suspects] off with a warning and hoping for the best” because they can’t cope with the scale of the crime problem, a senior officer has warned. Since 2010, the number of custody cells has dropped by as
