Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Marcelle Hutchins Apr. 19, 2023 LA Mayor Karen Bass unveiled her first city budget on Tuesday. It includes $1.9 billion for the city’s police department. This comes as the LAPD faces a hiring and retention crisis — the department says it has lost 1,000 officers over the last four years. Bass wants to return…
By Wiley Henry April 6, 2023 MEMPHIS, TN — The tragic death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers provided the impetus for a panel discussion on overzealous policing and accountability on March 30 at the National Civil Rights Museum. Moderated by MSNBC’s Joy Reid, a political analyst, and the host of “The Reid Out,” the panelists…
by Gregg Reese December 8, 2022 It’s 1980 and timing is everything. Cheryl Dorsey’s daily grind of typing reports for on-going investigations in the secretarial pool at the Department of Justice was interrupted by an offer, in which she would take part in an undercover narcotics “sting operation” as a decoy. Her interest aroused, coupled with the final passage of…