The past year was filled with several shocking and viral police encounters and courtroom moments, whether they involved a suspect who flung his entire body at a judge, or police officers who were ...

Police in the United States are empowered to detain, search, and interrogate people walking the streets or driving in cars as a tool for criminal investigations, without suspicion of criminal ...

The debate on whether police are warriors or guardians has dominated policing reform conversations for over a decade. But this binary no longer fits the complexity of modern law enforcement or the ...

In March, police in Phoenix stopped a man for a minor traffic violation. He now faces deportation as a result of the stop, the head of an advocacy organization told the Phoenix New Times. Phoenix’s ...

This story was produced andoriginally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible bydonors like you. Deadly police encounters in Wisconsin were up last year ...

More than a quarter of a century has passed since the brutal beating of Rodney King in 1991. The nation was focused on this case, with its videotaped beating of King by members of the Los Angeles ...

Imagine someone being pulled over by police who is anxious and possibly fearful about what happens next — a reasonable concern considering a nationwide rise in police killings — but they have the ...

The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched, or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars ...