Growth in the police use of lethal force in the United States has been steady for many years, despite judicial efforts to ...

Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...

The Trump administration is shutting down investigations into the practices of several local departments and whether they ...

Milwaukee police are mulling a trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free use of facial recognition technology. Officials from the Milwaukee Police Department say swapping the photos with the software ...

President Donald Trump’s new executive order promising free private legal protection for law enforcement officers is likely to have little tangible impact on courtroom battles over alleged abuse, ...

Or in Fort Collins, Colorado, where police Sgt. Robert Younger said officers are free to use it on any type of report, though they discovered it doesn’t work well on patrols of the city’s ...

A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand. By Nate Rosenfield Brian Howey and ...

President Donald Trump’s new executive order promising free private legal protection ... against them agree that the law related to police use of force and alleged civil rights violations ...