She 'Came at Me With Boiling Water,' a Cop Charged With Murder Claims, Contradicting What Video Shows
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.
Jaleel Stallings became an attack ad for Republicans. What they don't mention is that he was acquitted, and a police officer pleaded guilty to assaulting him.
Gov. Janet Mills’s office referred critical social media posts to the police. The FPC pushed back.
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled.
Most officer retirements happened in 2021, and there is no evidence showing cities with more intense protests saw a greater number of officer exits.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
The surveillance company mSpy just suffered its third data breach in a decade, exposing government officials snooping for both official and unofficial reasons.
A year after a court told Maryland police that Cellebrite searches were too broad, Baltimore quietly resumed using the software.
The Ben Kredich Act, named for a young man killed by an allegedly impaired motorist, overcorrects in response to a tragic incident.
The plaintiffs are challenging the state's widespread surveillance, which it collects through over 600 cameras.
Phoenix police are trained that "deescalation" means overwhelming and immediate force, whether or not it's necessary.
An analysis by The Washington Post found that nearly 1,800 police officers were arrested for child sex abuse-related crimes between 2005 and 2022.
While the data is far from perfect, if the overall trend holds, violent crime could be back to pre-COVID levels by the end of the year.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."
A new law will make it much harder to film law enforcement officers in their public duties. Does that violate the First Amendment?
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
The fourth Bad Boys film is an uninspired retread.
Yareni Rios was severely injured after a train struck a police car she had been placed in after being arrested in 2022.
The University of Texas is just one campus that has seen police arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators.
Even in an era of police militarization, there’s something shocking about seeing cops in riot gear on college campuses.
While drones are less likely to shoot or maim innocent civilians, they could also pose privacy issues.
The town of Sturgeon initially defended the officer, saying he was afraid of being bitten by the 13-pound blind and deaf Shih Tzu.
Justin Pulliam's arrest and lawsuit once again demand we ask if "real" journalists are entitled to a different set of rights.
Detectives in Fontana, California, told Thomas Perez Jr. that his father was dead and that he killed him. Neither was true.
In practice, police unions' primary responsibility seems to be shielding officers from accountability and defending their conduct no matter what.
The Minneapolis Reckoning shows why calls to defund the police gained momentum after George Floyd's death and why voters with no love for the cops still rejected an abolitionist ballot measure.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.