The Latest Breaking News from Police Department

MINNEAPOLIS — Activists and community members voiced outrage at a rally outside Brooklyn Center City Hall on Monday evening to denounce what they call a hyper-militarized video produced by the Police Department to recruit officers to the force.

CHICAGO — Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department’s 26th District faced widespread criticism in June 2020, after its officers stood by as white vigilantes with bats and hammers terrorized Black Lives Matter protesters in Fishtown.

CHICAGO — After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago has begun to see a decline in homicides, as the Chicago Police Department works to correct crime trends to levels before the coronavirus and turmoil over the killing of George Floyd took hold.

MINNEAPOLIS — There was a shooting inside the Mall of America on Friday night, a spokesman for the Bloomington Police Department has confirmed.

CHICAGO — Most of Chicago’s major mayoral candidates said they would undo Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to block live transmission of Police Department scanner traffic from the media if they are elected next year.

WASHINGTON — Austin Lee Edwards, the cop who “catfished” a 15-year-old Riverside, California, girl and killed her grandparents and mother before taking his own life, used his own father as one of three character references on his application for a job as a sheriff’s deputy.

TAMPA, Fla. — Two years before Mary O’Connor was named as Tampa police chief, a reign that ended with her humiliating exit from public life earlier this month, her husband was hired to run the city’s neighborhood enhancement division — still known colloquially as code enforcement.

PHILADELPHIA — For years, Philadelphia police officials had been alarmed by an internal list that tracked the number of officers who were out of work but still getting paid.

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was fired late Thursday for his role 18 years ago in one of the biggest scandals in department history.

BOISE, Idaho — A retired Boise police captain who has espoused white supremacist views and prompted an in-depth investigation of potential racism at the Boise Police Department filed a complaint against the city with the Idaho Human Rights Commission in November.