Police oppose new plan to overhaul qualified immunity

The contentious debate over qualified immunity for police officers returned to Beacon Hill as law enforcement leaders forcefully pushed back against a bill that would ease the path for civil rights claims against officers in Massachusetts courts.
— Read on www.lowellsun.com/2025/08/03/police-oppose-new-plan-to-overhaul-qualified-immunity/

Jacksonville cops in hot water after brutalizing driver • Florida Phoenix

“We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 28, 1963

As galling as it has been to watch a Jacksonville sheriff’s deputy break a car window and punch a non-combative man in the face, the feeble justification from the sheriff and a determination from the state attorney that cops did nothing wrong is just as infuriating.

The Feb. 19 videotape of an encounter with William McNeil, Jr. and a posse of rogue officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and their brutal response, is a searing reminder of everything wrong with policing in America.
— Read on floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/02/jacksonville-cops-in-hot-water-after-brutalizing-driver/

New Orleans Police Dashboard Aims for Transparency, Some Say It Could Hurt the Very Officers It Tracks

A new police accountability database is in the works for New Orleans designed to make disciplinary records more accessible to the public.
— Read on www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-police-dashboard-aims-for-transparency-some-say-it-could-hurt-the-very-officers-it-tracks/65385324

CPD Working to ‘Fix’ Problem That Led to 211K Undocumented Traffic Stops, Police Official Tells City Panel | Chicago News | WTTW

CPD reported to state officials that officers made 295,846 traffic stops in 2024. But police dispatchers recorded that officers made an additional 210,622 stops in 2024 that were not documented, raising questions about how many traffic stops took place last year.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/07/02/cpd-working-fix-problem-led-211k-undocumented-traffic-stops-police-official-tells-city

Chicago keeps controversial police promotion list secret – Chicago Reader

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.
— Read on chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/cpd-merit-promotion-police/

Discipline for police misconduct on the rise in New Jersey, data shows • New Jersey Monitor

Nearly 550 officers in New Jersey were fired, demoted, or suspended for more than five days in 2024 for misconduct, up from 460 cops in 2023.
— Read on newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/07/discipline-for-police-misconduct-on-the-rise-in-new-jersey-data-shows/

See the NJ Attorney General’s website on police discipline

Louisville resolution acknowledges the harm LMPD has caused | Opinion

Where were the Politicians when this was happening? The politicians oversee the police department.

Louisville Metro Council passed a resolution acknowledging the wrongs committed by LMPD and endorsing police reform. It’s a significant turning point.
— Read on www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/07/04/lmpd-louisville-resolution-metro-council-police-reform/84434222007/

Chicago Tonight | Debate Over the Growing Cost of Police Misconduct Lawsuits | Season 2025 | PBS

Debate Over the Growing Cost of Police Misconduct Lawsuits
— Read on www.pbs.org/video/debate-over-the-growing-cost-of-police-misconduct-lawsuits-vltliy/

Chicago Cop Who Inadvertently Shot and Killed Partner Has Lengthy Disciplinary Record over Short Career – Illinois Answers

Officer Carlos A. Baker has had more than a dozen complaints against him, records show. He has faced three suspensions and two reprimands.
— Read on illinoisanswers.org/2025/06/27/chicago-cop-inadvertently-killed-partner-has-lengthy-disciplinary-record/

KCPD car wrecks cost taxpayers $1 million | KCUR – Kansas City news and NPR

The issue with settlements of this kind is they are vastly more political than a trial. Settlements can be agreed to purely on the notion of what will get me the most votes. It’s very difficult to have settlements indicate guilt when the processes is more political than a trial.

A 10-month KCUR investigation revealed that the Kansas City Police Department accepts liability for approximately two wrecks per month. Over three years, the department paid out more than $1 million in legal settlements.
— Read on www.kcur.org/news/2025-06-23/kcpd-car-crash-lawsuit-settlement-kansas-city-police