This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police play in modern society and how they came to serve this ...

Since the high-profile police killings of Philando Castile, Daunte Wright and Tyre Nichols, all of which began as traffic stops, calls for de-escalation by officers have been growing. A study ...

A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians.

Police investigate a crime scene where three people were shot on June 23, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. A new study of over 30 years worth of medical data reveals the number of deaths at the hands of ...

The study, conducted by Matrix Consulting Group, was commissioned by the City Council in February 2024 to find ways to close gaps between police response times in different neighborhoods.

Out of 242 times between 2013 and 2021 in which police killed people while not on duty, approximately 40% of the victims were Black men, according to researchers at Yale. Off-duty police officers kill ...

Racial slurs, sexually explicit language and homophobic comments six Greenwood officers shared among each other were at the heart of a police department investigation last year. But whether those ...

Police in Alameda County are more likely to handcuff Black children experiencing a mental health crisis — particularly girls — than children of other races, according to a new study out of UCSF ...

The New Orleans Police Department is averaging about 3.8 traffic crashes per week in 2015 involving department vehicles and officers. (Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) A study of more than ...

Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto presented some of the study's findings at a press conference Wednesday. A long-awaited police staffing study has found that Pittsburgh has an adequate number of ...

(TNS) — It was a test the Newtown Police Department didn't know it took until 500 body camera videos were reviewed from a two-month period in early 2020, and scores were awarded. In one of the first ...