Police Accountability

A Queens man has filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit against Suffolk County. This is another in a growing series of police misconduct lawsuits.

An analysis by Newsday calculates that police misconduct claims have cost Long Island taxpayers $165 million over the last 20 years.

Two Nassau County detectives are under investigation by the state Attorney General’s Police Misconduct Office after a federal judge found they unconstitutionally strip searched a Cambria Heights man in public and then lied about it on the witness stand.

A list of suspected gang members managed by the Nassau County Police Department includes people with little to no explanation or vague justifications, according to a report released Tuesday by a civil rights group.

A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million.

New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson announced on Tuesday afternoon that he is recommending all four officers involved in the Randy Cox case be fired. Cox was left paralyzed from the chest down after he was handcuffed and put in the back of a police van without a seat belt.

The Suffolk County Human Rights Commission will utilize a public, online platform where residents can submit comments about interactions with county police.

The newly created Connecticut inspector general’s office investigated nine cases of police using deadly force last year, finding eight of them were justified.

Some Connecticut Democrats have pledged to support the legislative priorities of a multi-religious group called Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT).

A national database report shows Connecticut had among the lowest number of police-involved killings in the country this year.