More than 250 alleged criminal figures were charged in Australia after an international sting by the AFP and FBI involving an encrypted app. But not one arrest was made on American soil.

Australia's "very weak" privacy protections are why the nation was such a key player in a major international crackdown on organised crime, legal and counter-terrorism experts say.

In an apparent effort to kill fewer people, police departments across the country are investing in the BolaWrap Remote Restraint device—basically an electronic lasso designed to automatically restrain suspects without cops having to electrocute or shoot them.

Officers raid a property near Birmingham suspected of housing a cannabis farm, but find 100 computer units running Bitcoin mining and stealing electricity.

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van in a dawn raid.

One of the NYPD's unions -- the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) -- is feeling ways about stuff again. Last month, the New York City Council passed a number of police reforms which included taking away qualified immunity as a defense in...

A majority of states have laws making it illegal to hang anything from a rearview mirror that obscures a driver’s view. But critics say the laws are often used as pretexts.

Access to the records, one expert said, could help squash the "wandering-officer phenomenon."

A Brisbane woman who received an "astronomical" fine for speeding at twice the legal limit believes "crafty thieves" made near perfect copies of her number plates.

Last week Rodney Reese, an 18-year-old black man, was arrested in Plano, Texas for walking home from his job at Walmart. Police had received a call that a black man with short sleeves was walking through the snow.

Amy Cooper completes therapy involving racial bias instruction. Video of encounter in New York’s Central Park went viral in 2020.

Amid thousands of racial justice protests nationwide since George Floyd's death, over a hundred drivers have plowed into crowds marching in roadways. Those included 8 cops. Prosecutors determined that 43 of the incidents were malicious, and have charged 39 drivers.

The Trump Administration hasn't met a slope it isn't willing to grease up and go sliding down. There's not much united about the states at the moment and the President's lavish devotion to all things "law and order" is...

The laws that govern the use of tear gas are downright illogical, argue human rights advocates.

Gedmatch, the DNA analysis site that police used to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, was pulled briefly offline on Sunday while its parent company investigated how its users’ DNA profile data apparently became available to law enforcement searches.

The level of racial bias in American policing is overwhelming. Between 2012 and 2018, US police killed more Black men in their 20s than diabetes, pneumonia, chronic respiratory disease, or cerebrovascular disease.

Amid calls to rethink policing, body cameras remain a popular reform tool. But they remain locked within a larger system that resists transparency and accountability.

Over-policing traps Aboriginal Australians in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to get a handle on the problem. In Victoria, despite a commitment to begin mandatory recording of ethnic appearance descriptors in police interactions with the public, the force has refused to make the data public.

A resident at a unit complex where an Aboriginal baby girl died on Sunday says he heard the child's mother asking police not to separate them when she was arrested.