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Patrol
Fired Oakland Officer Files Gender-Bias Suit
Karla Rush's actions were similar to that of her male counterparts, her attorney is quoted telling the news outlet. Rush was one of four officers fired in April for telling judges that substances seized from suspects had tested positive in the crime lab as narcotics, when they had not.
October 5, 2009
Training
Anti-Gay Muslim NYPD Recruit Claims Bias
A police recruit who was rejected by the NYPD after agreeing that gays "should be locked up" has sued the department claiming discrimination.
June 12, 2012
Patrol
Video: Las Vegas Police Refute Claims of Racial Bias in Detention of NFL Player
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Undersheriff Kevin McMahill on Wednesday denied race played a role when officers detained Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett last month after the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight.
September 7, 2017
Patrol
Las Vegas Police Refute Claims of Racial Bias in Detention of NFL Player
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Undersheriff Kevin McMahill on Wednesday denied race played a role when officers detained Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett last month after the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight. More Here.
September 7, 2017
Women in Law Enforcement
Competency Trumps Gender
It wasn't until I became the first female to reach the rank of lieutenant and subsequently commander in my organization that gender became the focus. The media and the public were trying to shine a light on what I had spent so many years successfully deflecting and it was making me extremely uncomfortable.
March 13, 2012
Patrol
Syracuse Settles Police Gender Discrimination Suit
The Syracuse Common Council approved paying $375,000 to settle a gender-discrimination lawsuit filed in 2009 by a female officer of the Syracuse Police Department.
February 6, 2012
Patrol
Dealing with Confirmation Bias
One of the biggest things you can do to correct confirmation bias is to try to disprove your theories instead of trying to prove them. It seems it is human nature to stop working once you have proven your theory to your own satisfaction.
July 16, 2014
Patrol
Feds Sue Puerto Rico Police for Gender Discrimination and Retaliation
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Puerto Rico Police Department alleging that it discriminated against female officer Jeannette Caraballo Lopez (Caraballo) on the basis of her sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
March 11, 2008
Patrol
California Agency Settles Claim In Gender Discrimination Case
The city of Concord, Calif., has agreed to pay $47,000 to an officer who had sued the city, alleging that the police department retaliated against him for standing up for a female officer who was denied a promotion.
March 9, 2011
Patrol
Normalcy Bias
Officers might find themselves in a mental state called "normalcy bias" which can cause them to woefully underestimate the possible negative impact of a crisis or disaster.
August 20, 2015
Patrol
CO Students Shown Video Biased Against Police
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen responded to the video’s showing by saying, “That training doesn’t exist. That training doesn’t exist in this department. It doesn’t exist in any police training that I’m aware of in this state or this country.”
August 26, 2022
Patrol
Federal Report Slams San Francisco PD for Bias
A report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice accuses the San Francisco Police Department of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups.
October 12, 2016
Patrol
Minneapolis Police to Begin Tracking Race, Gender on Traffic, Other Stops
The Minneapolis Police Department has begun tracking the ethnicities and other demographic characteristics of drivers and pedestrians stopped by its officers to determine whether racial profiling is a common problem in Minnesota's largest city.
September 16, 2016
Point of Law
Former California Police Chief Awarded $7 Million in Gender Discrimination Suit
The suit alleges Lili Hadsell, chief of police from 2008 to 2013, was subjected to prejudicial treatment that ultimately led to her firing. It also accuses the department of promoting Hadsell to the position as a form of “tokenism” as the city “paraded her around as a prop to celebrate themselves for having a female police chief.”
March 27, 2019
Patrol
4 Calif. Black Officers Claim Bias by Black Chief
Days after then-Chief Ron Davis of the East Palo Alto (Calif.) Police Department announced last month that he was leaving for a high-profile federal job in Washington, D.C., four African-American officers filed a racial discrimination complaint against him.
November 17, 2013
Patrol
San Francisco Faces Race and Gender Discrimination Suit from White Male Officers
According to Forbes, plaintiffs claim that although they received higher grades on the civil service promotional exam, minority and female candidates were promoted ahead of them.
June 14, 2019
Patrol
Consulting Group Conducting Racial Bias Audit of Charleston, SC, Police
An outside consulting group called CNA has been conducting a racial bias audit since February and is expected to continue interviews with officers until into the fall.
July 1, 2019
Patrol
Justice Department to Fault Ferguson Police, Seeing Racial Bias in Traffic Stops
The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created years of racial animosity leading up to an officer's shooting of a black teenager last summer.
March 2, 2015
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