Police Accountability

Officers were serving a search warrant inside a residential high-rise apartment when the shooting occurred.

She and her husband, former Police Chief Louis Kealoha, face their first trial on bank fraud charges in November.

The officer took $1,800 from a man during a traffic stop in 2015.

A court opinion in the Honolulu Police Commission’s Kealoha case would also affect the way public boards handle other high-profile staff departures.

The HPD streamlines its application process and revamps recruitment messages to get more people to consider a career in law enforcement.

He was accused of helping another former cop bribe the victim of a theft committed during a 2015 traffic stop.

UH General Counsel Carrie Okinaga, the latest appointee to the commission, was Honolulu’s corporation counsel from 2005 to 2011.

Garden Isle cops have been wearing cameras since 2016. There was some initial reluctance, but now “it’s part of our uniform.”

UPDATED: The Honolulu prosecutor’s office plans to appeal the ruling and still seeks to prosecute the federal agent in the killing of a Kailua man in 2011.

But it’s loaded with former police, prosecutors and judges, raising questions about whether it’s just a rubber stamp.

Officers were trying to serve a protective order in Nanakuli on a convicted felon armed with a shotgun.

At a cost of $3.5 million, Honolulu will equip all its officers with body cameras during the next year — following a step taken by many large urban departments.