Policing

Lawsuit filed against police claims invasive search that violated civil rights.

The New York City Police Department's controversial “stop-and-frisk” program was a major issue for voters going to the polls in the city's mayoral election.

Officers sworn to serve, protect, and keep the peace should not show off their guns to children and put them in their eager hands.

Rallies are held nationwide against police brutality, meanwhile the family of Kyam Livingston, who died in a Brooklyn jail after allegedly being denied medical care, filed a wrongful death …

While the right wing forces couldn't overwhelm the protests, their emergence nonetheless revealed the demonstrationsu2019 uncertain path.

Director Amy Berg's “West of Memphis” is a searing indictment of prosecution and police misconduct in the conviction of three poor white teenagers for the barbarous 1993 murders of …

One young woman is dead. Another has been shot and is injured and another is in jail, denied bail.

State lawmakers across the U.S. are introducing legislation that would restrict the use of unmanned drones.

Truthout talks with Radley Balko about how the friendly police officer walking the streets has evolved into the warrior cop.

That is precisely what happened to two men, in two different states, over the past weekend.