Police Abuse

Politics

What We Saw at Tonight's Eric Garner Protest

Demonstrators pack the streets of Midtown Manhattan.

Jim Epstein | 12.3.2014 10:15 PM

Police Abuse

Why Bill De Blasio's Comments on Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Are Full of Shit

Ed Krayewski | 12.3.2014 6:21 PM

Civil Liberties

Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice Was Previously Kicked off Force for 'Dismal' Gun Performance, Emotional Instability

Robby Soave | 12.3.2014 4:55 PM

Civil Liberties

NYPD Chief Bratton Uses Unfortunate Metaphor of 'Breathing Room' to Describe How Cops Could Handle Garner Protests

Brian Doherty | 12.3.2014 4:44 PM

Eric Garner

Eric Garner's Death Won't Even Show Up in FBI Stats on Police Homicides

Scott Shackford | 12.3.2014 3:55 PM

Politics

"The Policies That Killed Eric Garner"

Nick Gillespie | 12.3.2014 3:43 PM

Eric Garner

Sometimes Cameras Don't Help: Grand Jury Declines to Indict Cop Who Put Eric Garner in Fatal Chokehold

Ed Krayewski | 12.3.2014 2:58 PM

Politics

NYPD Chokehold Cop Not Indicted in Death of Eric Garner

Nick Gillespie | 12.3.2014 2:26 PM

Eric Garner

Will Grand Jury Investigating Eric Garner's Choking Death Lead to New Outrage?

Scott Shackford | 12.3.2014 11:30 AM

Police Abuse

Albuquerque PD Fires Cop For Not Turning Body Cam On Before Fatal Shooting, Cop's Lawyer Claims Unfair Treatment

Ed Krayewski | 12.3.2014 10:31 AM

Militarization of Police

Four Members of Congress Put Their Hands Up in Solidarity With Ferguson Protesters, None Voted to Limit Police Militarization

Ed Krayewski | 12.2.2014 2:35 PM

Racial Profiling

Holder Says Feds to End Racial Profiling. Unless He's Declaring an End to the Drug War, No.

Scott Shackford | 12.2.2014 1:45 PM

Police Abuse

White Cleveland Cops Claim Harsher Treatment When They Shoot Black Suspects

Ed Krayewski | 12.2.2014 12:39 PM

Police Abuse

Obama Doesn't Really Care About Police Militarization

Scott Shackford | 12.1.2014 3:15 PM

Politics

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 12.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Ex Cop: Everyone Behaves Better When They're on Video

Joshua Swain | 11.30.2014 5:00 PM

Policy

Cops vs. Cameras: The Killing of Kelly Thomas and The Power of New Media

Paul Detrick | 11.29.2014 3:00 PM

Police Abuse

FBI Investigating After Denver Cops Punch Unarmed Suspect Six Times, Trip Pregnant Girlfriend, Delete Video of Incident

Ed Krayewski | 11.28.2014 7:49 PM

Police Abuse

Cops Arrest Man for Pointing Banana at Them, Say They Feared For Their Safety

Ed Krayewski | 11.27.2014 9:27 PM

Police Abuse

What Racially Biased Policing Looks Like

The Ferguson police search blacks more often even though they are far less likely to be found with contraband than whites.

Steve Chapman | 11.27.2014 12:00 PM

Police Abuse

Police Shooting of Pre-Teen in Cleveland Caught on Surveillance Video That Contradicts Cops Claims

Ed Krayewski | 11.26.2014 3:46 PM

Civil Liberties

Denver Cop Leg-Sweeps 7-Month-Pregnant Woman to Ground Bellyfirst While Beating Her Boyfriend's Head into Asphalt. Drug War is Working!

Brian Doherty | 11.26.2014 2:56 PM

Policy

LOL, Gawker Claims Ferguson Riots Good for Society, Economy, Something

Nope.

Robby Soave | 11.26.2014 2:33 PM

Politics

Why We Should Care About the Racial Divide in Perceptions of Law Enforcement

Emily Ekins | 11.26.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

Polling Finds a Stark Racial Divide in Perceptions of Law Enforcement

Jason Keisling and Emily Ekins | 11.25.2014 4:45 PM

Civil Liberties

How Grand Was That Ferguson Grand Jury? A Couple of Perspectives

Brian Doherty | 11.25.2014 3:18 PM

Politics

Why Police Officers Keep Claiming Their Unarmed Victims Had Guns, and What We Can Do About It

Emily Ekins | 11.25.2014 2:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Political, Public Pressure to Prosecute in Brooklyn "Accidental" Police Shooting of Black Man in Dark Stairwell

Brian Doherty | 11.25.2014 1:23 PM

Police Abuse

Post-Ferguson Police Reforms Require Look at Police Unions, Structural Power, Not "Community Relations"

Ed Krayewski | 11.25.2014 11:52 AM

War on Drugs

Family Business

Charles Oliver | 11.25.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

The Improbability of Federal Charges Against Darren Wilson

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2014 12:54 AM

Politics

Grand Juries Almost Never Fail to Indict, But They Did in Ferguson

Anthony Fisher | 11.25.2014 12:52 AM

Politics

In Utah, You're More Likely to be Shot Dead by a Cop Than a Criminal

Anthony Fisher | 11.24.2014 3:03 PM

Police Abuse

By Thor

Charles Oliver | 11.24.2014 6:00 AM

Guns

Cleveland Cop Shoots 12-Year-Old Boy Dead for Playing with Toy Gun

Robby Soave | 11.23.2014 6:54 PM

Civil Liberties

Brooklyn Man Killed By Police Officer, For No Actual Reason at All; An "Accident" Says NYPD

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2014 6:02 PM

Michael Brown

Federal Judge Orders Police Not to Interfere with Recording in Ferguson

Scott Shackford | 11.21.2014 3:00 PM

Puppycide

Buffalo Police Shot 92 Dogs Since 2011; More Than a Quarter By One Cop Alone

Ed Krayewski | 11.21.2014 12:50 PM

Michael Brown

Darren Wilson in Negotiations to Resign from Ferguson Police Department

Ed Krayewski | 11.20.2014 11:40 PM

Police Abuse

Cops Throw Smoke Grenade Into Room With 2-Year-Old, Family Says They Warned Police in Apparent Wrong Door Raid

Ed Krayewski | 11.20.2014 1:30 PM

Police Abuse

Cleveland Settles For $3 Million in Fatal Car Chase That Ended With 13 Cops Firing 137 Shots, Killing Two

Ed Krayewski | 11.18.2014 3:52 PM

Civil Asset Forfeiture

D.C. Police's Asset Forfeitures Are Very Lucrative and Very Petty

Scott Shackford | 11.17.2014 11:05 AM

Police Abuse

Colorado Cop Charged With Second Degree Murder

Ed Krayewski | 11.17.2014 10:15 AM

Police

Violence by Americans Is Down, Unless Those Americans Happen to Be Police Officers

Scott Shackford | 11.13.2014 11:10 AM

Civil Liberties

Is the Dangerous, Scandal-Ridden Border Patrol Being Quietly Disarmed?

J.D. Tuccille | 11.11.2014 11:18 AM

Police Abuse

Brickbat: Mind if I Have a Look

Charles Oliver | 11.11.2014 6:05 AM

Police Abuse

Mind if I Have a Look

Charles Oliver | 11.11.2014 6:00 AM