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 DOJ has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reforms negotiated by the Biden ...

A memo sent by President Donald Trump's administration is asking for all civil rights investigations to be put on hold.

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?

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced officers ... Lucas Finton covers crime, policing, jails, the courts and criminal justice policy for The Commercial Appeal.

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

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