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

The Washington State Office of Independent Investigations, created by the Legislature in 2021, announced Monday it plans to take over conducting probes into fatal police encounters in Pierce County ...

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, ...

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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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.

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

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 ...