MONDAY. A BASEBALL FIELD IN BENSON NOW BEARS THE NAME OF OMAHA’S FIRST BLACK DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF. CURRENT CHIEF TODD SCHMADERER AND MEMBERS OF THE BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF OMAHA WERE ...

He said he reached a breaking point in December 2023 while driving with friends — all of them, like Burton, Black — to an art exhibit on campus. Police pulled over his gray Jeep Compass for ...

A Peel Regional Police officer engaged in the racial profiling of a Black motorist in an example of a “systemic” problem within the service, a judge has ruled. The case, which resulted in the ...

Black Americans’ perceptions about police have grown more positive in recent years, according to new polling, which comes on the five-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Photo from ...

Monroe Coleman, who loved baseball, was Omaha’s first Black deputy chief of police. Coleman, shown in 1995, died in 2013 at age 94. There were two teams of eager youngsters waiting to play on ...

Police accountability always has been important to me. As a young Black police officer, I fought against police brutality by my fellow officers. As the founder of Concerned Police Officers for ...

Michael Burton was stopped by Southern Illinois University-Carbondale campus police so many times that he dreads driving anywhere near the college. “Any time I got behind the wheel, I was ...

Black Americans’ perceptions about police have grown slightly more favorable in recent years, though they remain below the national average, according to new polling. In a Gallup survey released ...