What does "21st Century policing" actually mean, and how would a forward-thinking department be different than what most jurisdictions have now? Ronald Davis, the former head ...
James Comey wasn’t the nation’s embattled former FBI Director in 2002; he was the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. It was around then that he gave a speech to a group of ...
The federal government doesn't track how often or what happens when police shoot civilians, and there's no official national database to show how big or complex the problem is.
The Trump administration has promised a return to "tough on crime" criminal justice policies, including a recent memo that instructs federal prosecutors to reverse Obama-era ...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to renew the National Commission on Forensic Science in April, effectively ending federal efforts to standardize how crime scene ...
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a 2013 memo written by his predecessor, Eric Holder, that told prosecutors not only will they abide by previously set ...
One police chief decided he needed to apologize for an incident 77 years ago: a lynching in his small Georgia town in 1940. LaGrange Chief Louis Dekmar explains why he ...
Many American cities are struggling with police-community relations, and racial divisions are often the heart of the problem. David Kennedy talks about the painful path to ...
From Obama-era task forces to widespread protests, the idea of community policing has become part of our national conversation. Jerry Clayton, the elected sheriff of ...
DNA tests have proved something surprising: people sometimes confess to terrible crimes that they definitely did not commit. One reason seems to be traditional American ...