The Justice Department is backing away from cases against police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., reversing course on the use of consent decrees to help ensure accountability for law ...

Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology reconfigures suspicion in subtle yet important ways, undermining so-called human-in-the-loop safeguards. Despite the long-standing controversies ...

ALL RIGHT ETHAN, THANK YOU. WELL, TONIGHT WE NOW KNOW THE NAME OF THE YORK COUNTY REGIONAL POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH A CRIME. 32 YEAR-OLD SEAN, LAKE OF DOVER. SEEN IN THIS PICTURE HERE. BEING SWORN ...

More than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the U.S. use interconnected Flock Safety cameras to track residents’ movements. Sandy Boyce, a 72-year-old retiree in Sedona, Arizona, first saw the ...

The White House recently issued an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens.” Claiming that local leaders ...

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Erie County District Attorney's Office has charged county's former IT director and a former county IT supervisor related to theft of computer parts.

Northern Ireland police failed to disclose two covert surveillance operations against journalists to the UK’s independent surveillance watchdog, in breach of their statutory obligations. The Police ...

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As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections. By Charlie Savage Reporting from Washington, D.C. A ...

The number of police uses of lethal force is on the decline according to a new report from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Researchers with the school’s Cline Center for Advanced ...