The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law ...

The attack comes as tensions are heightened around the world at the beginning of Hannukah, the Jewish holiday that begins on ...

A prolonged slowdown in traffic enforcement by New Jersey troopers coincided with an uptick in fatal crashes. The pattern ...

Also in this week’s Independence Police blotter, a driver is uncooperative with officers after hitting a police cruiser.

Officials said there was a confrontation followed by an exchange of gunfire, leading to an officer shooting a 19-year-old, ...

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While police kill, their unions rally to their defense. Before Mayor Frey fired the officers involved in Floyd’s death, the Minneapolis Police Federation, the local police union, had openly defied him ...

It would be easy to think that the police officer is a figure who has existed since the beginning of civilization. That’s the idea on display in the proclamation from President John F. Kennedy on the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barry Friedman, the director of New York University's Policing Project, about the role of the police in modern society. What are police really for in this country?

• A paper from 2013 shows dramatically lower life expectancy for police officers than for members of the general public. • Two other studies have found either no gap in life expectancy or greater life ...