Beyond our respect, these brave men and women deserve our full support: fair wages and benefits, efficient processes and technology, effective mental health solutions, and a judicial system willing and able to incarcerate pretrial violent criminals that are a flight risk and repeat offenders.
The North Carolina State Auditor’s Office has announced plans to formally investigate the City of Charlotte concerning a reported financial settlement with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings.
Courts have invented a network of overlapping immunity doctrines over the years that shield law enforcement agencies from accountability, killing any incentive for reform.
Chiefly, the bill increases punishment for “felonious assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflicting serious injury,” raising the punishment from a Class E to Class D felony for assaulting a police officer or teacher.
The state Court of Appeals has ruled that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must pay into a state retirement fund for officers working for its campus police agency. The decision Tuesday reversed part of a lower court’s ruling against officers who filed suit against CMS in 2019.
In the aftermath of a recent shooting during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Uptown Charlotte which left 5 people and 3 police officers injured, Charlotte City Councilman Tariq Bokhari has taken steps to propose and ultimately implement a crime task force for the city designed to prevent such incidents in the future, particularly among juveniles.
Zach Goldberg, Paulson policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, discusses his new report, “Perceptions Are Not Reality: What Americans Get Wrong About Police Violence.”
A bipartisan group of North Carolina legislators announced they would introduce legislation to add two seats to the N.C. Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission. The bill would add two seats to the 35-member board that establishes minimum statewide entrance standards and mandatory training requirements for law enforcement officers.
A recently published years-long investigation by the Dallas Morning News has revealed that many colleges and universities throughout the country used or have been using Artificial Intelligence to monitor students’ social media and email accounts. The investigation by DMN, in conjunction with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, revealed that...
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A Durham police sergeant fired after he allowed a suspect to smoke a marijuana blunt has filed new paperwork with the N.C. Supreme Court. The sergeant reminds the court that his controversial action helped end an armed standoff.
