A scathing report from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division found the Memphis Police Department engages in a pattern of discriminatory policing, including violence against the disabled, and ...

A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew its support of the plan.

A federal judge grilled a U.S. Justice Department lawyer repeatedly Tuesday about the “suspicious” timing of the government’s ...

The DOJ announced Minneapolis agreed to make systemic reforms to its police department after the 2020 murder of George Floyd ...

In 1775, the Second Continental Congress wrote 69 Articles of War that established standards of conduct for Continental Army officers and soldiers. Over time, these articles evolved into the Uniform ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department routinely engages in policing that violates residents' civil rights and discriminates against Black people, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a ...

Ferguson, Mo., police officers regularly discriminate against black residents, subjecting them to illegal stops, excessive force and arrests for petty offenses like “manner of walking in roadway,” ...

The list of U.S. big-city police departments under federal scrutiny seems to keep growing: Chicago; Minneapolis; Louisville. Kentucky; Seattle; and Phoenix. Now comes Memphis, Tennessee, where the ...