For those fascinated with Tallahassee's past, there's a new book out that traces the long history of the city's police ...

This story is being co-published by AL.com and Invisible Institute, a public accountability journalism nonprofit based in Chicago. In a wave of criminal justice reforms passed after George Floyd’s ...

The video from Minneapolis marks a new tipping point for many Americans. There is now an even louder demand for police departments, elected officials and communities to do things differently. And yet, ...

The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far ...

In similar tragedies over the years, police encountered similar problems during the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Confusion, chaos and ...

The Black Shield formed in Cleveland nearly 80 years ago. Initially, Black officers came together to support and protect each other from discrimination and retaliation in the mostly White police ...

The complaints were coming in to the Fairfax County sheriff: Somebody needed to do something about traffic. The year was 1921. All of 20,000 people lived in the 400 square miles of Fairfax County, ...

SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD IS CHARLES W. WOLFERTZ III PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF WTAE. IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, THE POSITION OF POLICE CHIEF HAS NEVER BEEN A LONG ...

In 1944, the first five black patrolmen were sworn in which led to the creation of this precinct, the only one of its kind in the nation. Learn how this forgotten part of history is now making an ...