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Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...
The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law that prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, [2] except the president and vice president, [3] from engaging in some forms of political activity.
The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to rein in abuses and hold agencies accountable. [25]
Some law enforcement members participated in arson and murders that occurred during the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released Friday. The ...
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 H.R. 7120: June 8, 2020 Karen Bass (D-CA) 236 Passed in the House (236–181) [39] Justice in Policing Act of 2020 S. 3912: June 8, 2020 Cory Booker (D-NJ) 36 Died in Committee 117th Congress: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 H.R. 1280: February 24, 2021 Karen Bass (D-CA) 199
Law enforcement organizations have criticized President Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters. The International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Fraternal Order of Police, the ...
Obstruction of justice is an umbrella term covering a variety of specific crimes. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines it as any "interference with the orderly administration of law and justice". [2] Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime, [3] a public-order crime, [4] [5] or a white-collar crime. [6]
The appeals court judges who dissented said there’s now a national consensus among a large majority of states that permanent disenfranchisement of those who have completed their sentences is an ...