James Comey continues to cling to “Ferguson Effect” false narrative to rationalize improper policing while fellow officers denounce the claim as unproven and divisive The director of the F.B.I. once again referenced the controversial “Ferguson Effect” Wednesday, saying that he believed “less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in …
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Officer is being charged with first-degree murder in the killing of LaQuan McDonald Community leaders calling Fraternal Order of Police’s Decision to hire Van Dyke while he awaits trial a “Slap in the face” Activists and citizens are outraged after it was revealed that Chicago’s chapter of the Fraternal Order …
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Two school officers and Baltimore Schools Police Chief Marshall Goodwin were put on administrative leave Wednesday as the Baltimore Police Department began investigating a deeply-troubling video of an officer slapping, kicking, and cursing a teenager which is going viral around the country. CBS Baltimore WJZ first brought the video to the …
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The Miami Chapter of the Fraternal Order Of The Police, Lodge #20, voted yesterday to boycott Beyonce’s April Concert In Miami, adamantly claiming that her new music video and subsequent Super Bowl performance promote an anti-police message. Javier Ortiz, whose Miami chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police counts over 1,100 …
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After hackers released files to the public taken from the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest union for law enforcement officers in the U.S., analysts have begun to examine heaps of data uncovered in the cyber attack. A wealth of information has been found in the 2.5 GB of released data, …
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A study analyzing police union’s statements immediately following a police-involved shooting shows that the Chicago police union has provided a false narrative in nearly half of its official statements since 2012. As first reported by the Chicago Reader, 15 of the 35 statements given by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge …
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