Police Reform

Civil rights attorney and former South Carolina state representative Bakari Sellers says national police reform is currently dead, but there is hope through voting to change the makeup of Congress.

Under Illinois law, all police agencies will be required to begin wearing body cameras by the start of 2025. East St. Louis got its first body cameras in September.

St. Louis’ Detention Facilities Oversight Board is calling on city officials to compel the division of corrections to provide requested documentation on the St. Louis City Justice Center.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen passed a bill Friday that puts the Detention Facilities Oversight Board and the Civilian Police Oversight Board under a civilian commissioner.

Mayor Tishaura Jones details plans to spend $150 million in north St. Louis and addresses recent setbacks in her aim to reform the city’s criminal justice system.

The St. Louis mayor says she remains committed to ‘reimagining public safety’ and efforts to make communities safer beyond policing.

Javad Khazaeli represents a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel swept up in the mass arrests that followed the St. Louis Police “kettling” protesters in downtown St. Louis in 2017.

The program launched by the St. Clair County Transit District is meant to relieve pressure on local police and offer better care for riders who need it.

The proposed Office of Public Accountability is an attempt to give civilians more control in police reform efforts.

The deaths of Don Ray Clark and Nicholas Gilbert at the hands of police are eerily similar to the highly publicized killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. St. Louis officers faced no consequences, but the City of St. Louis is trying to change how we hold police to account.