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Pretty Demanding Standards at the D.C. Police Department

Perhaps too demanding, though who knows (and it may well be that the punishment was suitably modest). From 2021 D.C. Office of Police Complaints 21-0072, 2021 WL 6804783 (decided Dec. 10 but just posted on Westlaw) (I'm focusing here on only one of the two complaints, against SUBJECT OFFICER #2):…

Reason · Feb 10, 2022

Once-fired Minneapolis police officer promoted to department training director

A police officer who once was fired for his role in the seizure of cellphones during a raid but later reinstated has been placed in charge of all training for Minneapolis police.

Tribune News Service · Feb 7, 2022

Minneapolis police insisted on 'no knock' warrant that led to Amir Locke's shooting death; city announces moratorium

MINNEAPOLIS — St. Paul police had applied for a standard search warrant for the predawn raid Wednesday that ended in the shooting death of 22-year-old Amir Locke, but they were overruled by Minneapolis police, who wanted to carry out a no-knock operation in connection with an ongoing homicide investigation, according…

Tribune News Service · Feb 5, 2022