Ferguson

The Ferguson Effect continues to result in more homicides. (iStock by Getty Images)

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538: ‘Ferguson Effect’ still operative

Michael Barone · July 14, 2017 5:47 pm

Ferguson's current mayor, James Knowles III (right), is running against retired businesswoman and city councilwoman Ella Jones (left). (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Ferguson could pick a new mayor for the first time since Michael Brown’s death

Kelly Cohen · April 4, 2017 4:11 pm

Jay Kanzler, attorney for the owners of Ferguson Market, discusses the new footage which lead to protests in Ferguson that resulted in gunshots and one police officer allegedly being punched. (AP/Christian Gooden)

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9 things to know about the new Michael Brown footage

Emily Jashinsky · March 14, 2017 10:09 pm

St. Louis County Police have said the incident in the video is "irrelevant to our investigation.—? (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Protests break out in Ferguson after unseen surveillance video of Michael Brown released

Kelly Cohen · March 13, 2017 5:41 pm

A student's painting that divided members of Congress for its depiction of Ferguson, Mo., has been removed from its Capitol Hill display, this time more permanently. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)

Artwork depicting police as pigs won’t return to Capitol

Susan Ferrechio · February 3, 2017 7:29 pm

The painting, done by a black Missouri teenager, was one of hundreds of winners of the Congressional Art Competition. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

‘Cops as pigs’ painting permanently removed from Capitol

Kelly Cohen · January 17, 2017 3:50 pm

Black lawmakers will hold a Tuesday event to rehang a painting that depicts police as pigs. (Screenshot)

Black Caucus to rehang controversial ‘cops as pigs’ painting

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 2:01 am

"He doesn't have the discipline," said Sheriff David Clarke of President Obama. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Milwaukee’s Sheriff Clarke: Obama is a ‘one-trick pony’

Rudy Takala · August 28, 2016 4:01 am

A city of Milwaukee employee cleans up a gutted beauty supply store was destroyed by fire and looting. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Sympathy for victims can be misdirected — and backfire

Michael Barone · August 21, 2016 9:00 pm

Similar to Ferguson, the 2015 death of a young black man, Freddie Gray, while in police custody prompted calls for a federal investigation into the city's police. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Justice Dept. slated to come down hard on Baltimore police

Anna Giaritelli · August 9, 2016 9:12 pm

‘Blue lives matter,’ Milwaukee sheriff tells GOP

‘Blue lives matter,’ Milwaukee sheriff tells GOP

Anna Giaritelli · July 19, 2016 2:10 am

At a funeral service in Dallas July 12 both George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered excellent speeches — until Obama went on at greater length to suggest once again that black men are being gunned down by racist police and that this problem could be solved somehow by gun control legislation. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Events roil the 2016 campaign

Michael Barone · July 14, 2016 12:06 am