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 ...

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

“Memphis police officers regularly violate the ... In a letter to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Memphis City Attorney Tannera George Gibson said the city had received 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 ...

In Memphis, people like the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher had asked the Justice Department for years to investigate the city’s police officers. But now, he worries that there will be no follow-through.

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

The Memphis Police Department refused multiple requests to ... an adjunct professor from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ross, a former academy instructor with the New York Police Department ...

The Graceland foreclosure case was back in court and St. Jude donated stuffed animals to the Memphis Police Department.