“There is a method by which the security of the [iPhone] can be compromised by devices law enforcement can purchase. There’s not really any reason to think only law enforcement will ever have those devices.”

The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common, but arrests are rare.

A Florida police officer is facing mounting backlash over a Facebook comment in which he seemingly wished violence upon Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and other young gun control activists.

If a government employee suspects you might be carrying drugs, be prepared to engage in a nonconsensual, highly-intimate relationship with the feds and their helpers. A New Mexico resident suspected of carrying drugs was subjected to multiple anal...

The digital privacy world was rocked late Thursday evening when The New York Times reported on Securus, a prison telecom company that has a service enabling law enforcement officers to locate most American cell phones within seconds. The company does this via a basic Web interface leveraging a location API—creating a way to effectively access a massive real-time database of cell-site records

White woman calls cops on black family who barbecued in Oakland Park's barbecue area

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.

You don't know the whole story of how close we came to one of the deadliest political shootings in US history last year.

Police stops in Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted predictive policing technology that may exacerbate that focused scrutiny. That’s according to a report put out this week by the research and activist organization Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which draws from the testimony of city residents and newly released police documents to paint a picture of a “racist feedback loop” in which a “disproportionate amount of police resources are allocated to historically hyper-policed communities.”

People who filmed high-profile videos of the police killings of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and others say they have faced retaliation and harassment.

Cruise says its car never came within 10 feet of a pedestrian.

Even in a world of omnipresent surveillance technology, old-fashioned pencil artists help police catch bad guys.

Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads.

Should law enforcement be able to test them?

Robinson said he thought about his loved ones and how the afternoon had taken such a turn as he was taken to jail. Nelson wondered if he'd make it home alive.

Cops refused to be intimidated by an official from the NY/NJ Port Authority.

A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.

A Georgia police officer has been fired after using his car to hit a fleeing suspect. Athens-Clarke County police department has released bodycam footage that shows Taylor Saulters pursuing Timmy Patmon, culminating in the officer using his patrol car to bring Patmon to a stop

Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives. A BuzzFeed News investigation.

In at least four investigations last year, Raleigh police used search warrants to demand Google device data near the scene of the crime.

The old truism is in play again with the FBI's renewed CryptoWar: if X is outlawed, only criminals will have X. In this case, it's secure encryption. The FBI may not be trying to get encryption banned, but it does want it weakened. No...

This palm-sized box can break your iPhone's password, giving police full access to a device's file system -- messages, photos, call logs, browsing history, keychain and user passwords, and more.

ICE uses Facebook's backend to hunt immigrants, with help from Palantir

Louisiana's attorney general has ruled out criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the fatal shooting of a black man outside a convenience store.

A response to Jack Dunphy.

A federal court jury awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a San Francisco man who spent six years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.

The subversion arises from a 1968 Supreme Court decision.

We're at the point in DNA technology where individuals who – having parted with $99 and a small vial of saliva – may suddenly find themselves in a criminal investigation.

The forensic use of DNA is rightly regarded as one of the most reliable ways of establishing the identity of someone who was present at a crime scene. As technology has advanced, it is possible to use extremely small traces of genetic material to...

The police refused to believe the Airbnb host even when they phoned and spoke to police. There's video of one of the Rialto cops telling them someone reported "there's three black people stealing stuff."

Orlando Police Chief John Mina held a press conference to explain the city’s facial recognition pilot, after ACLU documents revealed new details of the collaboration with Amazon’s Rekognition system.

Nigel Rothsay spent five years in his Masterton NZ home before discovering his neighbours owned it.

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

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.