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Policing

A police officer drives in Philadelphia
Courts & Law

Philly police dispatchers indicted for collecting pandemic unemployment, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.

5 years ago

Volunteers wearing balloons lead Philadelphia's 100th Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Courts & Law

After Wisconsin tragedy, Philly police are confident in their Thanksgiving Parade safety plan

After police say a man intentionally plowed through a crowd of holiday parade marchers in Wisconsin, Philly law enforcement say Thursday’s Thanksgiving event will be safe.

5 years ago

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks outside Legislative Hall in Dover Monday afternoon in support of legislation that would open up police misconduct records to public scrutiny. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Rev. Sharpton pushes for Delaware police accountability bill in Dover rally

Efforts to make police misconduct records more available to the public in Delaware got a boost from civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton Monday afternoon.

5 years ago

Deputy Attorney General Mark Denney
Courts & Law

Del. expands mandatory investigations of police use of force in cases of serious injury

A special division of the Attorney General’s Office was previously only required to investigate use of deadly force by police.

5 years ago

State Senator Art Haywood (Commonwealth Media Services)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Who investigates police killings in Pennsylvania, and why there are few checks and balances

Elected district attorneys who work closely with police decide whether officers should be charged and rarely refer cases to the state attorney general.

5 years ago

Norristown's new chief of police Derrick Wood (left) and Lt. Frank Lombardo of the South Brunswick Township, New Jersey, Police Department
Community

Norristown’s pick for police chief is veteran Philadelphia inspector Derrick Wood

A longtime inspector for the Philadelphia Police Department, Wood will be tasked with leading officers in the diverse Montgomery County seat.

5 years ago

Sheneen McClain stands at the site where her son Elijah was killed after an interaction with Aurora Police officers and paramedics resulted in the 23-year-old being restrained, choked and given a sedative on August 24, 2019. (Aaron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Aurora, Colo., will pay a $15 million settlement over the death of Elijah McClain

The 23-year-old Black massage therapist died days after an encounter with police in August 2019.

5 years ago

Former Bordentown, N.J. Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. (NJ Spotlight)
Courts & Law

Star witness in ex-Bordentown police chief’s hate crime retrial wraps 4 days of testimony

Lt. Nathan Roohr cooperated with the FBI to secretly record his former boss, then-Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. for nine months in 2016.

5 years ago

Gareth and Fe Hall (Fred Adams for Spotlight PA)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

The final moments: Videos show Christian Hall, 19, had his hands up when police fatally shot him

Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall’s life in publicly released videos. New footage shows the teenager had his hands up when Pa. State Police killed him.

5 years ago

Aerial view of Dewey Beach
Courts & Law

Dewey Beach condones brutality by police, victim of cop’s attack alleges in lawsuit

Mark Taylor was punched so hard by officer Gregory Lynch Jr. that blood spurted on to the uniforms of other officers. Lynch falsely claimed he was “strangled’’ by Taylor.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania State Constable Kevin Noecker in Berks County says the Oath Keepers, whose leadership is alleged to have played a key role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, is misunderstood. Other police and constables in Pa. who once joined the group have since distanced themselves from it. (Brett Sholtis / WITF)
Courts & Law
WITF

Police, constables in Pa. joined ‘anti-government’ Oath Keepers

One constable supports the group, while some police and others say they have since left it.

5 years ago

File photo: Frank Nucera Jr., left, with his defense attorney Rocco Cipparone in 2019. (Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Frank Nucera hate crime retrial begins in New Jersey

Federal prosecutors are trying their hate crime case against former Bordentown Township Police Chief Frank Nucera again after a deadlocked jury two years ago.

5 years ago

Fanta Bility stands for a photo outside
Courts & Law

Two teens charged in connection with the police shooting of 8-year-old in Sharon Hill

First-degree murder charges are filed against two people in a gunfight near Academy Park High before the shooting by Sharon Hill police officers.

5 years ago

A Wilmington police officer approaches a car with teen drivers during a simulation witnessed by other students at William Penn High School. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Teen drivers taught how to ‘survive’ a traffic stop — by the cops

A new initiative from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware has one goal in mind — “making sure everyone goes home safely.”

5 years ago

Listen 4:20
Community leaders and members of the clergy lead a march on Locust Street from the site where Walter Wallace Jr. was killed to the police precinct at 55th and Pine streets.
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

Philly in the ‘final stages’ of multi-million dollar reforms promised after police killed Walter Wallace Jr.

One crisis responder says the city is “living up to its commitment.”

5 years ago

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