The Justice Department on Wednesday said a 17-month civil rights investigation found that the Memphis Police Department engages in the systemic use of excessive force and discriminates against ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is pausing all active litigation being done by its civil rights division. How could this freeze affect Memphis' cases?

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...

The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and follows policies that discriminate against black people, the US justice department has said. This includes unnecessarily escalating ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Former Memphis Police Department Police Chief Tony Armstrong was one of several law experts who spoke on a panel about the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Pattern or Practice ...

The Justice Department has been ordered not to pursue new cases, settlements or legal action in ongoing cases, according to ...

Memphis will not agree to negotiate federal oversight of its police department until it can review and challenge results of a yet-to-be-released Department of Justice investigation into how its ...

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may ...