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Video: 2 Officers Shot in Ferguson During Protest

Two police officers were shot just after midnight Thursday outside the Ferguson police department. One officer was hit in the face, the other in the shoulder. The wounds have been described as "very serious" but not "life-threatening."

March 12, 2015

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Ferguson Home Raided in Search of Shooters, Wounded Officers Treated and Released

Officers swarmed a home in Ferguson, Mo., Thursday morning in a search for those responsible for the shooting of two police officers outside the Ferguson police department about midnight.

March 12, 2015

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Ferguson Police Chief Resigns

Police Chief Thomas Jackson has resigned from the Ferguson (Mo.) Police Department effective March 19.

March 11, 2015

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Video: Justice Department Demands Changes After Investigation Reveals Ferguson Uses Police to Generate Revenue

The report describes a city government that uses its police and courts as an ATM, tolerating a culture of police brutality while pressuring the police chief and court officials to increase traffic enforcement and fees without regard to public safety.

March 4, 2015

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Ferguson Not Alone in Attracting Justice Department Ire

The report includes information on what is happening in Cleveland; East Haven, Conn.; Missoula County, Mont.; New Orleans; Albuquerque; and Newark.

March 4, 2015

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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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Video: St. Louis Chief Blames "Ferguson Effect" for Drop in Self-Initiated Policing

One of the steepest drops in S.I.A. occurred after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in a St. Louis suburb. Another steep drop in S.I.A. occurred after the Grand Jury decision on Nov. 24. Dotson said criminals felt empowered, while officers felt hampered by what he calls the "Ferguson Effect."

February 27, 2015

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Kansas City Officer Indicted for On-Duty Shooting

In an internal message to department members, Police Chief Darryl Forté said he believed the officer was “acting in the best interest of public safety when he was placed in that situation.”

February 23, 2015

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Ferguson Attracts Large Pool of Applicants for Police Jobs

Mayor James Knowles III believes city leaders have made it clear they are seeking minority officers to build a more diverse police force in the St. Louis suburb that endured months of unrest after Brown’s death last summer.

February 19, 2015

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Feds Expected to Sue Ferguson Police Department for Racial Discrimination

The Justice Department is preparing to bring a lawsuit against the Ferguson (Mo.) Police Department over what it believes to be a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics used by officers, if the police department does not agree to make changes on its own.

February 19, 2015

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Video: Shoving Match Erupts at St. Louis Police Board Hearing

Proposed after the Aug. 9 shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the civilian panel would hear complaints about police actions, be able to review evidence from internal affairs investigations and evaluate police policies.

January 29, 2015

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Missouri Officer Shot, Suspect in Custody

After hours of searching an area where a Springfield (Mo.) PD officer was shot early this morning, Springfield police found and arrested a man.

January 26, 2015