As part of Obama's Police Data Initiative, researchers and police are studying "predictive analytics" to improve existing officer early warning systems Several high-profile cases of law enforcement ...

The methods that police officers use to detect cannabis-impaired driving lack a scientific basis, reported a new editorial published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Increasing ...

When criminologist Robin Engel suddenly found herself leading the effort to reform a police department under fire after a white police officer killed an unarmed Black man in July 2015, she looked for ...

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The police killings of several unarmed black men in recent months have sparked protests nationwide demanding justice, heightening tensions between police departments and communities. In one narrative, ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Over the past few months, millions of citizens in Hong Kong ...

Cities across the U.S. have been rocked by nightly protests against police brutality following the May 25 killing of a Black Minneapolis man named George Floyd by a White police officer. And as videos ...

Any encounter between police and civilians has the potential to go awry (SN: 11/17/21). Stop and frisk, where police pat down pedestrians suspected of carrying contraband, can be particularly fraught, ...

Just a few months ago, the Chicago police department was regarded as America’s laboratory of police science. As the country’s most violent big city struggled to contain an epidemic of deadly shootings ...

This story was produced by AL.com in Alabama and MLive.com in Michigan as part of the new national investigative team at Advance Local. Haley Butler-Moore sped up to pass a semi on the highway when ...

In the United States, the average police academy course lasts 21 weeks. A retired top New York City detective is recommending "throwing out the book" on training for would-be police officers across ...