By Lee A. Daniels
Peter Applebome’s Feb. 2 column in the New York Times about the decision of the Latino community in East Haven, Connecticut to challenge the campaign of harassment some officers in that city’s police department had mounted against them recalls an anecdote author Patricia Sullivan recounted in her recent, important history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

By Lee A. Daniels
The racial crisis which last week led to the arrests of four police officers of the small Connecticut town of East Haven deepened Monday as its embattled police chief resigned from office amid word that he could soon be arrested, too, along with more of the department’s officers.

By The Editors
The bullying swagger of Michael Daragjati, once apparently his perverse badge of honor, was nowhere in evidence earlier this week as he sat in Brooklyn’s federal district court.

By The Editors
The contentious relationship between the police force of a small Connecticut town and its Latino community reached a new stage Tuesday when the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four of the town’s police officers and charged them with racially profiling and harassing Latinos.

By Lee A. Daniels
The words allegedly spoken by a New York City police officer accused of illegally arresting a black New York City resident – “fried another nigger,” – are shocking.

Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News Service
Public housing residents can proceed with a class action lawsuit claiming that New York City and the New York City Housing Authority allowed the police to set up “checkpoints” that routinely violated tenants’ rights in front of their homes, a federal judge ruled.

By Erica Ferrari
The city will pay out more than $170,000 to settle with nine people who claimed they were illegally stopped and frisked by police at city housing projects.

By The Editors
Five current and former New Orleans police officers, charged with perpetrating one of the most notorious incidents of police misconduct in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, went on trial this week in federal district court in New Orleans.

By Johanna Steinberg
Thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers are unfairly and unlawfully subjected to stops-and-frisks because New York City Police Department officers routinely make unfounded assumptions of criminality based on race or ethnicity

By TaRessa Stovall
Thanks to changing laws, there may soon be fewer videos of police actions to post online or contribute to television news stories. The blog Gizmodo.com, reports that, “in at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer … even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.”