U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed a national data collection program in her “Exit Interview.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed her support for a recently announced program ...

Earlier this summer, bystanders on Pittsburgh’s North Side captured video of several police officers pulling a Black man with a physical disability from his car and pinning him to the ground. The ...

A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy San Diego Police Department) The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly ...

In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along ...

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Today, for the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in California. KQED, along with journalism and police accountability advocates, is publishing a database ...

It’s quite democracy-affirming, if somewhat startling in its frankness, to open up the website for the brand new Police Records Access Project database for the state of California. It’s the official ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Since 2023, both criminal homicides and total violent crime have been trending downward in the nation’s fifth-largest city.

Constanze Kurz and Franziska Görlitz warn against the use of Palantir by the police. Fundamental rights are at risk.

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