In certain situations, police officers are authorized to use deadly force, and since the beginning of 2020, more than 6,000 ...

Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...

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DALLAS — A Dallas police officer who was charged for firing "less lethal" ammunition and wounding a protester who lost an eye during the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd has been demoted, ...

Police use-of-force incidents across New York leaped nearly 30% from 2017 to 2022, according to Mapping Police Violence data. And injuries tied to police use of force in New York City alone spiked ...

Police chief says the weapons are needed for de-escalation, but the LAPD has come under scrutiny for its use of force during ...

A lawsuit has been filed against the Burlington Police Department, alleging that a police officer used excessive force and made an illegal arrest, bringing a man to the ground and breaking his wrist.

Five years ago, after George Floyd's murder, mostly peaceful but sometimes violent racial justice protests broke out in Columbus and across the country. Columbus police were not prepared and met ...

Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) cited recent changes in Maryland’s use-of-force policy for why multiple law enforcement agencies were reported as being unable to assist with ...

The number of police uses of lethal force is on the decline according to a new report from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Researchers with the school’s Cline Center for Advanced ...