Blog: Police Misconduct

Require body cameras, hold police publicly accountable and stand up to powerful unions to rid system of racist practices. Ben Crump Opinion Contributor For decades, we have heard pledges from police chiefs and city leaders that they will reform policing and eliminate the persistent brutality that characterizes far too many encounters between police officers and …

By Ben Crump Ben Crump is a civil rights and trial attorney and founder of Ben Crump Law, headquartered in Washington, D.C. George Floyd’s close-to-last words in life — “I can’t breathe” — capture perfectly how so many black Americans feel in watching the slow, grueling video of his death. Another black person killed. Another …

The Minneapolis police department’s failure to arrest the officers responsible threatens our most basic sense of justice Ben Crump and Jasmine Rand Get off of his neck.” “Please! Please!” “I can’t breathe.” Police in America have far too many non-lethal ways to reliably kill black men without facing criminal charges. The weaponization of racism does …