Police Accountability

Recently unsealed court documents point to a questionable link between a suspect in a drug case and the Honolulu prosecutor’s office.

Defense attorneys had wrongly hoped federal prosecutors were dropping conspiracy charges involving an alleged mailbox theft.

But a labor board panel has temporarily blocked Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard’s effort to release information explaining the decision.

Darren Cachola, a former HPD sergeant, could get his job back four years after he was caught on tape beating his girlfriend inside a Honolulu restaurant.

One Honolulu council member is pushing to amend the city charter to revamp how the chief and police commissioners are chosen.

A federal judge’s ruling that the couple should receive separate trials on various charges was a legal victory for the defendants.

Honolulu’s police chief offers blunt assessments of homelessness and the scandal that tarnished her predecessor.

A judge will soon decide whether to grant defendants’ wishes to split up the case or fulfill prosecutors’ desire to keep it intact.

A conference committee of legislators agrees to a bill that establishes a standards board instead of just studying the idea.

UPDATED: Every state except Hawaii already does so, but a measure that passed the House has been gutted in the Senate.

Federal public defenders quickly unraveled a case about the alleged theft of a mailbox. How did  U.S. attorneys miss the clues?

Federal prosecutors added three new charges in the corruption case involving the former police chief and his deputy prosecutor wife.