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 ...

For the past 60 years, concerns over U.S. police officers’ excessive use of force and race-based targeting of citizens, and deteriorating relations between police and communities of color have spurred ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did the social justice protests of 2020 cause a wave of police officers to leave the force? A recent study suggests the truth may not be so simple. In May 2020, a Minneapolis police officer killed ...

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 ...

Police officers are a common sight in many schools, but research suggests they do not improve student safety (Photo by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Stationing police officers in ...

A recent Rice University study found that many victims of hate crimes in Harris County often decide not to report it to authorities, relying more on loved ones. The Rice University Kinder Institute ...

Leechburg officials are moving forward with efforts to regionalize their police force with West Leechburg and Parks Township. A regional police study was completed in December, and it recommended ...

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 ...