Bobbie M. Hill broke up a drug ring, reduced Civil Rights era violence and ran the intelligence division, all after being ...

Betty Cater, an 80-year-old Black woman, was parked in front of her home in Long Island, New York, when she called police in ...

Asked to identify the age of a young boy that committed a felony, participants in a study routinely overestimated the age of black children far more than they did white kids. Worse: Cops did it, too.

*Speaking at the annual conference of the National Organization of Black Law (NOBLE), Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed a group of Black police officers at the 40th annual event, where she said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, with Capt. James Hwang, left, inspect graduating recruits at the Los Angeles Police Academy on May 2, ...

A black former Michigan State Police officer believes that race is the reason he was demoted after he reportedly left work early, while a white colleague who had two dogs from his K-9 unit die in his ...

President Trump has deployed federal law enforcement officers and the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. and threatened to take over predominantly Black Democratic cities by decree. The ...

To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind ...

The number of Black recruits — especially women — has been dropping for years at the LAPD. The department quietly shut down its DEI program this year. President Trump’s efforts to do away with DEI ...