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…
By Terri Schlichenmeyer When you’ve broken the law a time or two, the last person you want to see is a police officer. You’d want to stay far, far away from anyone with a badge, but then again…. you’re not Maverick Miles Nehemiah, and in the new book “The Confidence Chronicles” by Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey, you’ll see why Nehemiah spoke…
BY ARIEL WESLER LOS ANGELES PUBLISHED 3:15 PM PT NOV. 19, 2021 In all her years on the force, retired LAPD Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey had never heard a story like this. “We were on the phone for sometimes 12 hours,” Dorsey said. “I developed a rapport with him, gained his confidence through a series of friendly interrogations and then before…
Voters in Minneapolis will vote Tuesday on whether to defund the same police department that was at the center of protests following the May 202 death of George Floyd under an officer’s knee. Former Los Angeles Police Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey, author of “The Confidence Chronicles: The Greatest Story Never Told,” voiced concerns about the legislation in a Monday night conversation…
By Alicia Lee, CNN Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn knows he plays a key role in changing the culture of policing and how communities perceive officers. It’s a tough position to be in for a Black man in 2021. He’s endured being called an “Uncle Tom” and “a sellout.” In 2017, Hahn became the first African American police chief in…
Courteney Ross cried when talking about how the two met in 2017 at the Salvation Army. She talked about how they loved to go out to eat, and that Floyd had to work out every day. She also testified about the couple’s struggle with opioid addiction. She says both had chronic pain and started taking prescribed oxycodone but then got…
A retired cop on Tuesday slammed the Brooklyn Center Police Department for claiming that one of its officers killed Daunte Wright by accident. While appearing on CNN, retired Los Angeles Police Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey reacted with incredulity to the notion that a veteran police officer mistook her handgun for a taser before fatally shooting Wright. “The police chief is being…
Former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey had a few choice words regarding Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s announcement that only one Louisville police officer would be charged in the Breonna Taylor case. During an interview with CNN’s “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” Dorsey said she does not understand how an officer can fire 16 shots and it…
“Civil rights leader John Lewis is survived by a generation of changemakers, ready to take up the baton. In recent years, new leaders have emerged across the United States to champion rights – not just for African Americans, but also in the fields of migration and gender. They are using politics, social media campaigns and publishing in new ways to…
During an appearance on CNN this Tuesday, retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey slammed President Trump’s Rose Garden speech in the wake of his signing of an executive order creating a federal database of police officer accused of using excessive force. “So here’s the deal — more psychobabble from this president,” Dorsey said. “It means nothing for ground pounders,…