The U.S. Department of Justice is pausing all active litigation being done by its civil rights division. How could this freeze affect Memphis' cases?

A federal judge ruled to replace a private attorney who monitors the Memphis Police Department with two lawyers employed by ...

A memo states that officials are implementing the freeze to be “consistent with the Department’s goal of ensuring that the ...

The Memphis City Council Tuesday reappointed Cerelyn "C.J." Davis as police chief. She spent the previous year as MPD's ...

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis City Council members voted to approve Cerelyn 'C.J.' Davis as the Memphis Police Department chief one year after being tagged as the interim. Davis was confirmed unanimously ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Former Memphis Police Department Police Chief Tony Armstrong was one of several law experts who spoke on a panel about the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Pattern or Practice ...

C.J. Davis is no longer “interim” police chief after Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to approve her as the permanent chief ...

The Justice Department has been ordered not to pursue new cases, settlements or legal action in ongoing cases, according to ...

The Memphis Police Department refused multiple requests to ... an adjunct professor from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ross, a former academy instructor with the New York Police Department ...

Justice Department investigations, often launched after controversial police killings, show how other forms of abusive policing can harm communities.

Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced officers ... Lucas Finton covers crime, policing, jails, the courts and criminal justice policy for The Commercial Appeal.