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A community in Alabama can soon be forced to close its local police department. Last week, a big jury Recommended the abolition of the Hacville Police Departmentconcluding that “it has recently worked as a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency.” City officials said they were In view of the recommendationBut for now, the department is actually closed. Five officers were arrested and the whole force was put on leave.

In a traveling state, a former deputy of the sheriff in Rankin County came clean today at Mississippi this week about his role in a The reign of the two -decades terror by the “Goon team” of the department. Former deputy Christian Dedmon said he and his colleagues Suspects brutalized and humiliated regularlyHe lied in official reports and frequently confiscated and destroyed the samples without a mandate during drug attacks. Dedmon, like several former deputies in Rankin County, is carrying out their prison after being sentenced last year in brutal aggression and torture of two black men.

No case will be shocking for the ordinary readers of this newsletter. Previous editions have highlighted in a similar way extremely – Even cartoon – cases of incorrect police behavior, corruption and brutality. We also covered how some of these cases have triggered reform and responsibility efforts. But as The federal governmentand to a lesser extent, Public opinion, returns more and more From concerns about the police – more than four years since the protests on police violence has exceeded the national discourse – the future of police responsibility seems uncertain.

The deadly violence of the police has increased slightly since 2020. The statistics on killing the police on the inhabitant show an easy but durable growth from the Pandemic and George Floyd protests, according to an analysis of the Marshall project of the mapping police database. Numbers launched this week Suggest this trend continued by 2024 even as violent crime rates have back largely to pre-pandemic levels.

Within the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice insinuated to be no longer follow the types of federal investigations This regularly followed acts of high police violence during Obama and Biden. President Trump also canceled an executive order Signed by the former Biden President in 2022, who established restrictions on the use of the force for the application of the federal law and created a national database for the pursuit of the incorrect conduct, which all the federal law enforcement agencies were forced to present.

Earlier this month, Trump administration took that offline databaseReported The Washington Post. Because of the short lifespan, it is difficult to Evaluate how effective the database wasOr it could have been, to its aforementioned goal: preventing officers with a serious conduct historian to find new jobs in applying the law. One report launched on the database in December last year found that Despite nearly 10,000 questions led by officials in the first eight months of 2024, only 25 searches They were made by the agencies requesting information about an officer outside their own department.

The vast majority of incorrectly captured conduct incidents In the database were generated by border application agencies and correction officers in federal prisons, the call reported on Thursday.

The executive branch is not the only part of the federal government that has reduced a role in the police in the police responsibility. This week, the Supreme Court refused to hear a case that could have increased the legal responsibility that the police have to ensure that they have the correct address when they make raids on the houses of crime suspects. These “wrong” raids can create lasting trauma for the people they fit. A process filed on Tuesday at Denver, for example, claimed that the police looking for a man In apartment 307, on the other hand, he attacked apartment 306 and ended by closing a mother and her 5 and 6-year-old daughters in an hour’s car.

In Chicago this month, Anjanette Young marks the six -year anniversary of a raid at the wrong home that has done national news. The young man was handcuffed and left naked, despite the fact that he explained to the officers they were in the wrong place. Since then he has become a lawyer to change the way the police approach these types of arrests. “Six years since I stayed in front of the officers – crying, pleading, fear – just to be ignored.” Young said at a press conference outside the town hall last week, WBEZ Chicago informed. “And yet, I stay here again, fear and ask for justice, responsibility, still asking for those in power to keep their promise.”

Beyond the changes in how the law enforcement are (and not) subject to supervision and responsibility, the evolutions of the last weeks have also raised some questions about who enters the profession and how they are trained.

In New York City, NYPD announced it is Decreasing his standards of educational employment In response to what officials describe as a recruitment crisis. With new requests declining by more than half of 2017, the department reduces its college credit requirements from 60 to 24 loans-at the same time a 1.5 mile requirement of 1.5 miles, which department decreased in 2023Based on the belief that more women would help carry out qualifications.

The return of this requirement comes just a few days after Associed Press has published an investigation that found that at least 29 police recruits have died in training in the last decadeOften from the heat layer, excessive physical stress or basic medical conditions that have been aggravated by training activities. A disproportionate number of deaths took place at black students with seceral cell features, a genetic condition that can cause fatal complications under high physical stress otherwise.