Black police officers

A Miami cop who has numerous complaints and lawsuits leveled against him for racist actions against Blacks is now claiming to be Black. “I’m a Black male,” Capt. Javier Ortiz said at a City of Miami commission meeting regarding his racially-charged abuse of power against Black employees at the Miami Police Department, Miami New Times reports. “Yes, I am. […]

The Courageous 12  were 12 Black officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department in Florida who banded together to stand up for their rights. The daring dozen sued the city to win the right to fully use their powers to arrest any offending citizens, not just Black ones. Their remarkable story began in St. Petersburg […]

Several Black Little Rock police officers filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the city.

Kim Royster had dreams of becoming a professional singer after leaving her small North Carolina town and heading to New York. While her artistic aims fell through, Royster has earned several achievements as a member of the New York Police Department and is the highest-ranked Black female officer on the force. This week, Assistant Chief […]

Want to help? Get this photo out as far and wide as possible. Know where he is? Call @CrimelineFL and help OPD & @OrangeCoSheriff find him. pic.twitter.com/uPYMXmCRyf — Orlando Police (@OrlandoPolice) January 9, 2017   ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A massive manhunt was underway Monday in the popular tourist destination of Orlando as authorities searched […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Renata Phillip was 11 years into a satisfying teaching career when she shocked her friends and family last August by deciding to make a drastic career change: become a police officer. Her decision came amid growing concern over police tactics in the wake of a number of deaths at the hands […]

Could the strained relationships between police and the Black community improve if there were more African- American cops patrolling predominantly Black neighborhoods? Civil rights activists have been calling for more Black police officers after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the death of Freddie Gray Jr., from Baltimore, who died in police […]