In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law enforcement with a holding in Graham v Connor (Graham), that changed the manner in which courts evaluated use of force claims, changing from a subjective due ...

Recruits from different law enforcement agencies are the region with one thing in common. They’re completing basic academy at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. A total of 70 hours is ...

There is no common definition for “use of force” by police. Data about cases in which police used force is limited, as is data about cases involving “excessive” use of force. Black people are ...

Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Philando Castile are just a few of the Black Americans killed by police in recent years whose deaths spurred widespread ...

Since August 2020, Minnesota has expanded its data collection of use-of-force incidents involving members of law enforcement, but questions remain for many about the integrity of the reporting process ...

KANNAPOLIS — In this week’s Citizen Police Academy with Kannapolis police, Lt. Justin Smith gave the run down on use of force by officers, including use of deadly force, and what the state allows and ...

Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...

Two officers roughly 400 miles apart claimed self-defense after they were indicted this summer in the murders of two Black women, killings that sparked a national outcry over police brutality and law ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Police are nearly seven times more likely to use force on Black suspects than they are on White and Hispanic suspects, according to data obtained by CBS 8. From 2018 through 2022 ...

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The woman stood on the sidewalk outside her home and waited for the first officers to show up. Blood streamed down her face and shoulders. She had called 911 after her significant other stabbed her.

The Authorization for Use of Military Force is a joint resolution by Congress that gives the U.S. president the authority to leverage military force in a conflict. Such authorizations carry ...