Oklahoma City police shot dead a deaf man who refused to obey shouted orders to put down a metal pipe.

Successful prosecution in a police shooting is rare due to the legal standard that must be overcome. By Joel Currier and Robert Patrick.

Same corruption; new, empirical respectability. By Cory Doctorow.

The concept would be familiar to anyone who has watched the Spiderman movies.

Trump is playing a dangerous game by mainstreaming "constitutional sheriffs" like Joe Arpaio and David Clarke. By Bridgette Dunlap.

A Georgia police officer has been accused of making racist statements to a woman during a traffic stop, telling her the officers “only kill black people.” Dash-cam video shows the Cobb County police officer, who has been identified by local news organizations as police Lt. Greg Abbott, standing outside a vehicle during a DUI traffic stop in July 2016.

Apple has added two features that could make the lives of law enforcement investigators significantly more difficult.

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

The man who beat the FBI to identify the mastermind of global online drugs market Silk Road.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

“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)

Brazilian police have recommended that charges of falsely reporting a crime be brought against U.S. Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen.

Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

One SHARK "Angel" drone causes the California Highway Patrol and the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to totally lose their cool for two straight days.

Skylar Dore was fired two days after posting a profanity-laced Facebook message. The message and his firing instantly set off charges of political correctness and hints of racial violence.

Officer Osvaldo Villarreal claims an unarmed suspect named Benny Herrera had a weapon before Villarreal shot and killed Herrera. Villarreal also claims that Herrera “charged” him — or, at least, that Herrera “closed the distance . . . very quickly” — after the officer ordered the suspect to remove his hand from his pocket. Video of the incident disagrees. That video, according to a federal appeals court, “shows that the command and the shots were almost simultaneous, separated by less than a second.”

An unarmed black man killed by a white Oklahoma officer who was responding to a stalled vehicle can be seen in police video walking away from officers and toward his SUV with his hands up before he approaches the driver’s side door, where he drops to the ground after being shocked with a stun gun then fatally shot.

It may come as a surprise, but throughout the country, police officers are legally allowed to take and keep your cash and property — even if you are never charged or arrested for a crime. All it takes is officers claiming they think your belongings were obtained through illegal means. How about your due process and personal property rights? They’re out the window under most state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws.

The New York Police Department, the largest city police force in the United States, has agreed to buy 1,000 body cameras, officials confirmed. The move is part of a nationwide push to equip more police with the technology in response to a national outcry over the deaths of unarmed — often African American — men at the hands of police in disputed circumstances.

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.” By Ryan J. Reilly.