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 ...

Remain with state police service, contract outside police services, join a regional police force or create a new stand-alone police department. A recent study analyzed the costs, benefits and ...

A four-year study of policing in three major cities shows that if the police treat people fairly and respectfully that the rate of crime drops and officers arrest fewer people. “The study demonstrated ...

A Slate Belt township that hasn’t had its own police force in almost 30 years is going to study what its law enforcement options are. Upper Mount Bethel Township supervisors voted Monday to ask the ...

After years of fits and starts, a study which will help the Chicago Police Department determine which neighborhoods see additions or subtractions in officer deployment is at last in development. The ...

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 ...

Police reforms in the wake of the George Floyd shooting have proven uneven All of the social justice initiatives and protests surrounding the deaths of Black people at the hands of police have not ...

A state study recommends that Etna and Reserve form a regional police department, while also finding that doing so will cost each municipality more for police services. The Governor’s Center for Local ...

Leechburg officials are moving forward with efforts to regionalize their police force with West Leechburg and Parks Township. A regional police study was completed in December, and it recommended ...

Off-duty police officers kill Black men in the United States at higher rates than they do their white and Hispanic counterparts. In a study published June 5 in the journal Health Services Research, ...

Apr. 24—An outside study of staffing at the Joplin Police Department released Friday by the city throws up red flags on workloads found in the patrol division and for the department's retention rates.