Host Angela Davis examined the role traffic stops and searches play in policing, when they are necessary and how those interactions with police can affect the communities they are serving.
Minneapolis police had asked for the public’s help earlier Tuesday, believing the missing 2-year-old girl may have been abducted by her older sister. Officials say the toddler has been located safe near Syracuse, N.Y.
The Republican-controlled Senate included no police accountability measures in its budget bill and has already rejected several House proposals. A House-Senate conference committee on Monday began trying to find out whether any compromises are possible.
Guest host Chris Farrell talked to two criminal justice reform experts about the current state of cash bail, its effects on pretrial detention and mass incarceration and what advocates want to see changed.
Authorities say a man who shot and killed two people and wounded a third at a Wisconsin casino restaurant before police killed him had been fired from the eatery and banned from the property.
Hundreds of people joined the family of Daunte Wright on Sunday at the site where a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot the 20-year-old three weeks before. Then they marched to the city’s police headquarters.
On Monday, Apple faces one of its most serious legal threats in recent years: A trial that threatens to upend its iron control over its app store, which brings in billions of dollars each year while feeding more than 1.6 billion iPhones, iPads, and other devices.
A federal judge has ordered police in Columbus, Ohio, to stop using force including tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets against nonviolent protesters, ruling that officers ran "amok" during protests last summer.
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