A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a telling problem in law enforcement.

Joe Arpaio, the notoriously brutal and racist former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was found guilty of criminal contempt, report correspondents from the courthouse in Phoenix. He'll be sentenced in October.

Deescalation isn't something most police officers want to talk about -- especially those who allow their unions to do all their talking for them. But shootings by police have achieved critical mass, forcing the issue to be confronted by law...

The trooper is on administrative duty while authorities investigate.

Efforts range from charging people for the costs of policing to making. By Ruthann Robson.

When an armed black radical group refused to surrender, the police responded with deadly and unprecedented force. By Alex Q. Arbuckle.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A second mistrial was declared Friday in the case of a white University of Cincinnati officer who killed an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop. It's the latest racially charged police shooting case to show the reluctance of U.S. jurors to convict officers.

Everything anyone has ever said about staying safe while interacting with the police is wrong. That citizens are told to comport themselves in complete obeisance just to avoid being beaten or shot by officers is itself bizarre -- an insane inversion...

Prosecutors charge three officers with conspiracy to cover up the death of a black Chicago teen.

Arrests in Virginia made in a bid to intimidate anti-racist protesters, while far-right groups continue demonstrations. By Creede Newton.

This is a symptom of a disease that runs bone-deep. By Shane Ryan.

South Dakota’s use of forced catheterization. By Mark Walker.

When a group of mothers, aunts and sisters found that no officials — not the state's attorney's office, not the mayor's office — wanted to take up their cause, the women went in search of justice themselves. By Melissa Segura. (Apr. 4, 2017)

The city will serve as a bellwether for how – or if – the Justice Department will fight police abuse under the new attorney general. By Ryan J. Reilly, Kim Bellware.

The police chief in Balch Springs admitted Monday that a car full of teens was driving away from police when an officer armed with a rifle fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in the head. By Jennifer Emily, Julieta Chiquillo, Charles Scudder, Eline de Bruijn.

Authorities believe the officer “intended to cause serious bodily injury” to 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. By Aria Bendix.

The right-wing extremist’s disregard for the Constitution is well documented, and now he’s reportedly joining Trump’s DHS. By John Nichols.

From its first episode in 2002, the HBO TV drama documented the poverty, politics and policing of a city. We visit its memorable locations and talk to the people trying to rebuild scarred communities• See more of JM Giordano’s photographs of Baltimore locations used in the wire here. By David Smith.

At a Portland alt-right rally, there was evidence that federal Department of Homeland Security police were cooperating with militia members. By Arun Gupta.

State’s attorney urges governor to sign the bill after Reason story shows poor hit hardest by asset forfeiture in Chicago. By C.J. Ciaramella.

Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda. But as the NYPD's contract with tech giant Palantir comes to an end, things could get messy.

Ten Ways Your Tax Dollars Pay for War – Past, Present, and Future . By William D. Hartung.

Officer drags tased 17-year-old like a sack of potatoes then drops him face first.

It seemed like the perfect way to help those biking along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa cool off on a hot, sunny day, but two little girls were told to pack up their lemonade stand for failing to have a permit. "I felt sad because I like selling lemonade. It was really fun and there were lots of customers," seven-year-old Eliza Andrews told CBC News. Eliza and her five-year-old sister Adela set up a lemonade stand on a grassy median between Echo Drive and Colonel By Drive...

Officials in Baton Rouge moved quickly on Wednesday to quell national outrage at what is the latest in a string of fatal police encounters captured on video — the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. By Wesley Lowery, Travis M. Andrews and Michael E. Miller.

Two police officers was shot in a Dallas protest Thursday night.

Never has an agency of the United States government done so little, and so much, to deserve the disgust of the citizenry, as the Transportation Safety Administration. By Scott H. Greenfield. (July 2, 2016)

As more police forces adopt body cameras as a way to prevent abuse of power and lawsuits, one company says they'll be adding new technologies in the future to make the cameras even more valuable in the field. Axon is one of the leading providers of body cams to police forces. They say that they'll be rolling out models with livestreaming capabilities and cloud storage services next year, and that in the future they expect to have facial recognition capabilities within the technology. With several high profile, fatal police shootings currently in the news, more access to footage recorded by police body cams is increasingly a demand of...

A diary from the sidelines of America, outside the Republican National Convention. By Matt Pearce.

Supreme Court has not ruled about compelled unlocking of fingerprint-locked devices.

Videos from the fatal shooting of teenager Paul O'Neal by Chicago police show officers firing down a street as O'Neal sped away from them in a reportedly stolen car and, moments later, officers handcuffing O'Neal as he lay mortally wounded behind a South Shore home.

Chicago's Independent Police Review has released video of the July 28 shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Paul O’Neal.

The New York Daily News often provided a platform for NYPD officials who were quick to blame any increase in crime on the decline in stops.

“My bosses never had a complaint — to the contrary, I received nothing but praise. What I didn’t know, and my editors didn’t know to tell me, was that the political cartoonist of The Los Angeles Times isn’t allowed to criticize the police. I wish I’d been informed…” By Ted Rall. (Aug. 10, 2016)