Items Tagged with 'civil rights'

A new study questions the policies and procedures law enforcement agencies are drawing up for their body camera programs. 

A New York congressman anounced that he's sponsoring a bill that would make chokeholds a federal crime.

The New York Police Department has disbanded a special unit that tried to detect terror threats in Muslim communities through secret surveillance.

The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.

Prisoners in this unit are held without telephone privileges and very limited human contact for decades, the suit says.

A leading civil rights group wants Chicago to stop expanding its network of thousands of cameras covering the city because of privacy issues, First Amendment concerns and a lack of regulation.