Police Brutality

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

Todd Miller speaks with Truthout about his new book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security and about how the public is unaware that this …

Los Angeles activists' vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff's Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.

An officer assaulted a woman in a waiting area, claiming that she was violating custody rules because she took a dose of painkiller for an infected tooth.

The law's passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.

A police shooting of a 28-year-old man in San Francisco last Friday has left the city divided, angry and uncertain over the fast-changing social and economic landscape of the …

Outrage is growing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the latest incident in a spate of police shootings.

A secret policy allowing Dallas police to wait 72 hours before making an official statement was instituted in 2013 after a police shooting report was contradicted by a home …

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton seems to see his role as dampening controversy over the force's tactics, not rooting out tactics that are criminal or ineffective.

The War on Drugs and Crime has made over policing a part of our culture; it permeates every aspect of public and private life.