Nigeria's government has a long history of promising police reform. Here's what to know about that past—and whether this time is different.

But history suggests that radical change is possible. We can defund the police (and probation and parole, too) if we want to.After all, we have done this kind of thing before. Defund-and-invest is ...

In February, the Miami Police Department unveiled a redesigned police SUV in honor of Black History Month. The Ford Interceptor featured raised fists, an outline of Africa, red, green and yellow ...

At the time of Garner’s death — and Michael Brown’s, Ezell Ford’s, Laquan McDonald’s, Tamir Rice’s and many others — police cautioned the public that what they saw or heard was not ...

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.

A traffic stop arrest. The first modern traffic stop of any note occurred in Washington D.C. in 1872. William West, a black policeman, arrested Ulysses S. Grant, the sitting President of the ...

In an online training seminar reviewed by The Times, Praet instructs detectives to approach a mom before she learns her son has just been killed by police: “You got about five, 10, 30 minutes to ...

Police called to suspect's home 'a number' of times before July 4 shooting. Robert Crimo III is accused of killing 7 people in the Highland Park shooting.

Police were contacted about an elderly man who was murdered by a woman living with him seven times in two years before he was found dead, an inquest has heard. Barry Spooner, known to his family ...

The Phoenix police's report about its reform efforts underway are "attempts to discredit the DOJ findings before they come out," said Ben Laughlin of Poder in Action, a nonprofit that seeks to ...