by Betty Nelander
Nighttime police encounters tend to be more unsettling than those that occur during the day, a new study confirms.
Public complaints against cops rise when they work the night shift, a time when they are more likely to be fatigued. Eighty-six percent of public complaints against the ...
by Betty Nelander
A decision by Alabama lawmakers means that death row prisoners in the state could face execution by nitrogen hypoxia instead of barbaric lethal injection.
The decision renders moot a lawsuit by eight death row prisoners who also opted for this untested method over the injections. On July ...
by Betty Nelander
A City of Minneapolis investigation has revealed that some people who were suspected of crimes were drugged by medical responders with a powerful anesthetic at the request of local police. The drugging requests took place over three years.
Ketamine, a date rape drug street-named Special K, was ...
by Betty Nelander
Disciplinary records of New York Police Department officers who arrest people have been closely shielded. Even the district attorneys, who sometimes must decide whether to charge arrestees with crimes based on an officer’s word, have often been out of the loop.
But now a news organization has ...
by Betty Nelander
One Vermont county is using the muscle of the law to help curb the deadly opioid epidemic.
Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George announced that her office will no longer prosecute “any citations or arrests for Misdemeanor Possession of Buprenorphine and related compounds such as Suboxone,” noting ...
