When Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara took over the department in 2022, he says it was like walking into a funeral parlor. "People weren't even talking to each other," he says. "A lot of ...

Indeed, recent years have seen renewed liberal support for disinvestment in the criminal-justice system, propelled by the widely held view that we over-police communities of color and over ...

When a police officer beats someone to death or shoots an unarmed motorist or steals drugs from the evidence room, there is often at least one witness: Another cop. What happens when those ...

Community advocates and Metro Council members say the DOJ's move to drop a consent decree is Louisville is disappointing - ...

The San Francisco Police Department is down more than 600 officers, almost 30 percent of its allotment. Phoenix needs about 500 more officers to be fully staffed. The D.C. police force is smaller ...

This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question.

Police in St. Louis, Missouri, have been battling stiff budget cuts and severe staff shortages in the wake of the defund the police movement, even as the city has more than 1,000 unsolved murders ...

"Sound of the Police" connect the dots in its examinations of riots that have inflamed Black communities since 1919, and how an "us vs. them" mindset has developed as members of the Black ...

The Minneapolis police had responded to a call that a man had tried to use a fake $20 bill at a corner store. All in the midst of a pandemic in which Black people have died at more than twice the ...

His thoughts spun around and around the events of March 30: the footsteps pounding up the street behind him; the uniformed police officer grabbing him hard by the hood of his sweatshirt and ...