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...

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.

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

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

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.

From cussing McDonald's Minions to wrongful conviction, mishearing what is said can be funny but also very serious.

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.

Usage logs obtained by Muckrock show departments are cracking phones hundreds of times a year

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.

The wretched state of [U.S.] immigration enforcement. By Matt Cameron.

Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them. By Scott Shackford.

Rights group paints devastating picture of systematic racial discrimination by the sheriff’s department of Madison County in a federal court complaint

CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues' new book exposes the under-reported "ghost skins": hidden white supremacists in law enforcement.

Places like Troy [New York] used to be lily-white, and most of their police departments still are. That’s a problem for the black and brown people moving from big cities like LA and New York in search of quieter places to raise families. By Albert Samaha.

Detroit police play murderous ‘death game’ with teens during 1967 riot. By Bart Bealmear, with Danielle L. McGuire.

If the State of Florida's attempted murder-for-hire case against Dalia Dippolito unfolds like a reality show, maybe that's because it was made with television in mind. Dippolito, 33, became the key figure in a special edition of TV's "Cops," which worked with Boynton Beach police to show her allegedly conspiring to kill her newlywed husband. But this wasn't the show she wanted: Her defense lawyers say the entire plot was an act...

Following a motion filed Thursday by Alabama's attorney general, a judge dismissed state misdemeanor assault charges against a Madison police officer who allegedly slammed an Indian man to the ground last February during a suspicious-person stop. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's request came after two federal juries failed to reach verdicts in the civil rights case against Eric Parker, the officer accused of taking down 58-year-old Sureshbhai Patel...

A campaign to employ police officers of foreign origins regardless of whether they have a German passport or not has been launched in the state of Bavaria. The move is aimed at helping solve crimes involving migrants.

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

A Chicago police officer has been stripped of his police powers and placed on desk duty, pending an investigation into a video showing him apparently stomping a man’s head while a second officer was trying to restrain the man. The Independent Police Review Authority has launched an investigation into the video, which was recorded while a plainclothes officer was struggling with a man on the ground while trying to arrest him in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a $69.6 million plan to place body worn cameras on 7,000 Los Angeles patrol officers by the end of 2017. Originally, L.A. Mayor Garcetti had promised to have cameras on LAPD officers by the end of the year to improve accountability by both police and citizens, and provide evidence in criminal trials. City council members, however, balked at the price tag and approval was delayed six months.

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...

416 out of 833 officers added to the ‘disapproved register’ by English and Welsh forces resigned or retired before cases were resolved

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.

A disturbing video, purportedly shot by a black couple driving in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights, was posted to Facebook Wednesday night. If the events depicted in the video are accurate, they are among the most upsetting depictions of police violence against civilians captured to date.

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

American police kill 100 times more civilians than Finnish police. Racism and gun control are just part of the problem.

In the aftermath of two highly publicized police shootings and the deaths of five Dallas police officers, scenes of protest and prayer have unfolded around the country. Here is a glimpse.

After new video has surfaced showing an off-duty NYPD officer gunning down another man, experts say the officer will likely be fired.