Police

The vast majority of payments came from settlements, which usually do not require the city or police officers to admit wrongdoing.

The Obama administration has begun making important changes to end racial profiling, emphasize community-oriented policing and de-militarize police forces.

A former Guantanamo interrogator was also a Chicago police officer.

Civil liberties groups warn that the rules still contain loopholes.

Does the existence of the board make it easier or more difficult to organize for fundamental change?

“What happened here is the usual: the town fills up with police and the army, but nothing happens,” says one mayor.

Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the US.

Embarrassing the accused before they've even been convicted of a crime only serves the interests of the state.

Police were created to protect the new form of wage-labor capitalism that emerged in the mid-to late-19th century.

“I was on the phone with my mom to arrange my pick-up when a searing pain shot through my ears, nostril and eyes, and spread across my face.”