The Associated Press has found that about 1,000 police officers have had their law-enforcement licenses revoked for sexual misconduct while in uniform. AP based its yearlong study on a state-by-state search of decertification records. It covered a six-year period, 2009-2014, during which 550 officers lost their license for rape, extorting citizens into performing sexual acts…

The police say they believe they’ve caught the person who torched churches in the St. Louis area. Authorities announced Friday the arrest of David Lopez Jackson, who has been charged with the arson of two churches, according to the Washington Post. “Hopefully, there are more charges coming,” said St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, referring…

Scores of people gathered Saturday at Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach, Fla., to say their final farewells to Corey Jones. He was laid to rest, with his drumsticks inside his casket, during a nearly four-hour funeral, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Police Officer Nouman Raja killed Jones in…

St. Louis County Police said Saturday that the county medical examiner’s autopsy concluded that Amonderez Green died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound under the chin, the Associated Press reports. The bullet was fired from a .38-caliber revolver, which is the same type of gun that police said Green used during a shootout with them. According…

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is facing backlash over his comments at a police-brutality protest over the weekend. New York City’s police union is calling on New Yorkers to boycott the Academy Award-winning director’s movies, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater,…

GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson is comparing yet another public policy he rejects to slavery. This time, it’s a woman’s right to have an abortion. The retired neurosurgeon told NBC’s Chuck Todd Sunday that abortion should be outlawed, with almost no exceptions—equating women who abort their pregnancies to “slave owners,” the Washington Post reports. “During…

Donald Trump sees no need to apologize to Ben Carson for comments he made yesterday about Carson’s religion, according to ABC News. The Republican presidential hopeful noted at a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday that he is a Presbyterian—a denomination that he described as “down the middle of the road.” He then made a…

FBI Director James B. Comey thinks the “Ferguson effect” is impeding law-enforcement efforts. He says that closer scrutiny of police officers makes them less aggressive and that this probably contributes to an increase in violent crime, according to the New York Times. Comey, speaking Friday at the University of Chicago Law School, lends credence to the…

In a nearly unanimous decision, the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate voted to remove the state’s flag from campus, according to WMC-TV.   The 41-1 vote late Thursday supports an earlier decision by the Student Body Senate also to take down the state flag, whose design includes the controversial Confederate battle flag. In the more…

Fort Worth, Texas, swore in its first black police chief Tuesday at a ceremony packed with the city’s top leaders, WFAA reports. He takes over at a challenging time. Fitzgerald replaces Jeff Halstead, who retired in January amid federal discrimination lawsuits filed by several black police officers. Black Lives Matter called for a rally in…