Very few law enforcement agencies take accountability seriously. Even when officers are held responsible for wrongdoing, their employers find ways to soften the blow. Powerful police unions make the situation worse. The gap between officers and...

Investigations says strip club arrest failed ‘conduct policy’, but finds no political motive

Local media reports former police officer Philip Brailsford signed an agreement that allowed him to be temporarily rehired to allow him to apply for an accidental disability pension and medical retirement.

Officers and their families abused and humiliated in what union boss calls ‘quest for revenge’ from ‘rioters.’ By Denise Tsang.

Police officer also advertised a system to track the location of buyers' gang rivals or spouses based on the telephone numbers.

We all have an innate ability to pick a face out of a crowd. But some can memorise thousands of people – often seen only fleetingly on CCTV. Alex Moshakis meets the ‘super recognisers’

These dramatic images today reveal Scotland Yard’s new hardline war on London’s violent moped gangs. Extraordinary dashcam footage shows police pursuit drivers ramming fleeing moped thugs, sending them sprawling in the road. Police said the new strategy of ending pursuits with what the Met calls “tactical contact” was now in  common use across London.

A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.

A police department in Washington state made a lot of people laugh this week with a back and forth Facebook exchange with a criminal who had a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly violating his probation. Anthony Akers, 38, had a warrant issued after he failed to comply with the terms of his probation, Richland Police Sgt. Drew Florence told BuzzFeed News. Florence didn't immediately have the information on Akers' original crime.

Though DNA has revolutionized modern crime fighting, the clues it may hold aren't revealed quickly. Samples of saliva, or skin, or semen are sent to a crime lab by car (or mail), and then chemists get to work. Detectives are accustomed to waiting days or weeks, or more, for the results. Some labs are so backed up, they only take the most serious crimes. Some samples never get tested.

A domestic terrorism briefing the FBI gave to law enforcement agencies in 2017 warned them about the threat of “pro-abortion extremists.” That would be fine, except—as the FBI’s own briefing materials subsequently admit—violent pro-abortion extremists barely exist, and in no universe do they constitute an organized domestic terror movement. The existence of this briefing was uncovered by Property of the People, a government transparency group that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to shed light on the workings of the government.

Motor City Muckraker and Deadline Detroit collaborated on a series about Detroit's declining police services. This is part 1.

Four Houston police officers were shot -- allegedly by now-dead suspects -- while serving a no-knock warrant on a Houston residence. The no-knock warrant was supposed to make everything safer for the officers, giving them a chance to get a jump on the...

The FBI -- late to the party -- proudly announces it's the first guest to arrive. The FBI has launched the nation's "first and only" database that collects information about police-involved shootings and use-of-force incidents.

The officers put the camera away but accidentally left it turned on.

Global policy on drug control is unrealistic, and has taken a harsh toll on millions of the world’s poorest people

In San Diego, the United States Border Patrol grabbed a girl who is 9 and a U.S. citizen and on her way to school, accused her of lying about her identity, then detained her for 36 hours. It's hard to imagine this sort of thing routinely happening under Trump's white supremacist presidency to families who look differently. Say, blonde and white and wealthy.

Forensic genealogists are using DNA databases to solve cold cases faster than anyone could have imagined. But how will their techniques hold up in court?

“There is no plausible explanation other than racial bias,” said Andrew D. Freeman of Brown, Goldstein & Levy, an attorney for James. The law firm refers to the incident as "lawyering while black" in a press release.

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