Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a speech at a Justice Department ceremony, Attorney General William Barr said that communities that don’t “respect” law enforcement could lose access to police services. The ceremony was to give honors to police officers for the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing. “Today, the American people have to…
In Philadelphia, two police officers have started a weekly “Karaoke with a Cop” initiative in an attempt to change negative perceptions of law enforcement. Officer Shamssadeen Nur Ali Baukman and Officer Justin Harris, who both grew up in West Philadelphia and are patrol officers with the city’s 18th Precinct, came…
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is pushing for a hate crime bill in the state after a white female teenager was arrested last week for planning to kill Black churchgoers with knives and other sharp objects. The caucus, made up of 65 state representatives and Senate members, released a statement…
A cellphone video caught a 15-year-old quadruple amputee being held down by a sheriff’s deputy at least twice his size in Pima County, Ariz., at a group home. The video shows the boy, identified as Immanuel, screaming as he is held down by the officer’s body weight. The video was…
A panel of three judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the City of Greenwood Village in Colorado does not owe the Lech family, whose house was destroyed by police, any more money than the $5,000 they received in temporary rental assistance back in 2015….
Two New Jersey 17-year-old boys have been arrested after reportedly calling a group of Black middle school girls the N-word and urinating on them at a Lawrence High School football game Oct. 18. Police say the bias incident — the way hate crimes are referred to in New Jersey law…
In some states, police officers are allowed to have grace periods before being interviewed about a fatal shooting while on duty. This can be days or weeks — and activists and criminal justice reformers believe that it gives an officer and a department time to come up with a story…
A 13-year-old girl at Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, Kan., imitated a gun with her fingers and pointed it at four students last month—now, she’s being charged with a felony. The girls’ classmate asked her which classmates she would kill if she could, and that’s when she made the…
Orlando Resource Officer Dennis Turner has been fired after outcry from his arrest of two six-year-olds, a boy and a girl, on the same day. The children were then charged with misdemeanor battery in separate incidents though the charges have since been dropped. Turner was initially suspended but was then…
A new University of Los Angeles (UCLA) analysis of data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found discrimination leads transgender individuals to contemplate and attempt suicide at high rates. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center of Transgender Equality included responses from 27,715 transgender people from all 50…