A police officer has shot and killed an armed security guard at a suburban Chicago bar, and now the guard's mother is suing police.

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’

One of the former attorney general’s final acts was to make it nearly impossible for federal civil rights lawyers to rein in police abuse. By Ryan J. Reilly.

Border Patrol agents are extending their reach deep into the country’s interior. By Melissa del Bosque.

Apple makes a major stride in iPhone security, locking out the GrayKey device that promised governments a way into modern iOS devices.

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

Searching a smartphone is different from searching luggage. Our smartphones carry our innermost thoughts, intimate pictures, sensitive workplace documents and private messages.

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. By Ian MacDougall.

Dozens of school resource officers have been accused of crimes involving the students they were hired to protect. Joshua Spratt was one of them.

Lawsuits raise unsettling questions about authorities’ considerable power to detain people at the nation’s 328 ports of entry. By Susan Ferriss.

The police official acknowledged stating online that he's a person a color, even though he's white. By Daniel Connolly. (Aug. 20, 2018)

Analysis of five body camera models marketed to police departments details vulnerabilities could let a hacker manipulate footage. By Lily Hay Newman.

Two years after law enforcement arrested 120 gang members in the Bronx, the community is still debating whether it made them safer. By Mirela Iverac.

Prosecutors on Wednesday released hours of video interrogation of Florida's school shooting suspect, footage showing the young man slouching in a chair, being repeatedly urged by a detective to speak louder and punching himself in the face when he is alone.

MaryLinda Moss took on the role of lead hostage negotiator inside the Silver Lake Trader Joe's when a gunman entered the store wounded. By Robin Abcarian.

The Detroit Police Department has yet to identify the officer who had been with the department for 18 years.

Police officers try to solve New Zealand's most absurd paranormal and supernatural cases in Waititi and Clement's new comedy series. Absolutely hilarious, with that marvellous self-deprecating New Zealand humour.

Over two years, Ed Pilkington has interviewed eight African American radicals imprisoned since the 1970s. Will they ever be freed?

The Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday that one of its officers fired the bullet that struck and killed a Trader Joe’s employee in the frantic moments they exchanged gunfire with an attempted murder suspect.

An internal report found that Miami-area police commanders in Biscayne Park, Florida, pressured officers to make false arrests to look good for leaders. Former brass deny the allegations, which resulted in the indictment of the former chief. By Charles Rabin, Jay Weaver, David Ovalle.