Following a Skagit Council of Governments meeting on May 21, Mount Vernon City Councilmember Richard Brocksmith has filed a complaint with the Burlington Police Department against Skagit County Chief ...

Major Jeffrey Mauro, the new Commander of the Mount Vernon District Police Station, sees policing as a “noble profession” ...

The U.S. Justice Department said the investigation into claims of civil rights violations against Mount Vernon Police was ...

But it’s President Trump’s Justice Department now. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, called the decree “overbroad,” and “factually unjustified,” ...

The Justice Department said it will bring an end to investigations launched during the Biden administration after the deaths ...

The Justice Department has decided to dismiss lawsuits and withdraw from accountability agreements with several police ...

The Trump administration is shutting down investigations into the practices of several local departments and whether they ...

She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner ... closing investigations into police departments in Phoenix; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis; Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City ...

DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they had violated ...

The Justice Department also announced plans to reverse lawsuits it had filed seeking police reform against the departments in ...

Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...

The Mount Vernon police station’s new commander ... where crimes are spiking. Police recruiting by the department countywide is challenging, he remarked. Referencing the county’s diverse ...