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 staffing analysis found “real and uneven staffing pressures” within the Chicago Police Department and recommended hiring 270 additional officers and 90 sergeants while shifting about 600 sworn ...

SEATTLE — Police pursuits should be rare and limited to violent criminals who pose an imminent threat, according to a new study published this week. The research by the Police Executive Research Forum ...

COBLESKILL, NY (WRGB) — The village of Cobleskill presented the findings to a months-long police shared-services study looking into whether merging village police with the Schoharie County Sheriff’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers ...

Got a question about life in Philly’s suburbs? Our suburban reporters want to hear from you! Ask us a question or send an idea for a story you think we should cover. A recent study of the Yeadon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Drexel University and the University of Washington have found that American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people face a disproportionate risk of being killed by police in areas on ...

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 ...

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 ...