This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police play in modern society and how they came to serve this ...

SEATTLE — Police pursuits should be rare and limited to violent criminals who pose an imminent threat, according to a new study published this week. The research by the Police Executive Research Forum ...

Police in Alameda County are more likely to handcuff Black children experiencing a mental health crisis — particularly girls — than children of other races, according to a new study out of UCSF ...

LGBTQ+ people are significantly more likely to stopped, harassed, and even falsely accused by the police than non-LGBTQ+ people, according to a new study released by the Williams Institute. As a ...

Remain with state police service, contract outside police services, join a regional police force or create a new stand-alone police department. A recent study analyzed the costs, benefits and ...

EAST LANSING - A study of East Lansing's policing practices found low morale among employees, seven or more use of force incidents annually for more than one in five officers and several "poorly ...

After years of fits and starts, a study which will help the Chicago Police Department determine which neighborhoods see additions or subtractions in officer deployment is at last in development. The ...

A state study recommends that Etna and Reserve form a regional police department, while also finding that doing so will cost each municipality more for police services. The Governor’s Center for Local ...

(TNS) — It was a test the Newtown Police Department didn't know it took until 500 body camera videos were reviewed from a two-month period in early 2020, and scores were awarded. In one of the first ...

The New Orleans Police Department is averaging about 3.8 traffic crashes per week in 2015 involving department vehicles and officers. (Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) A study of more than ...

Milwaukee police are short staffed and short on time for proactive policework, and changing that will require some combination of additional, reallocated and civilianized personnel, according to a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new traffic study found Black drivers were six times more likely to be stopped by police in Chicago. Even in areas like Lincoln Park, where Black drivers are less than one-third of ...