Sheriff Tom Dart is personally leading a transit task force, required by the newly enacted sweeping transit law, that will ...

Police forces with records of unconstitutional policing continued to engage in excessive force even as the Trump ...

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Police use of force has overall remained stagnant since the 2020 murder of George Floyd and subsequent worldwide protests, with some jurisdictions reporting an increase in use of force, according to ...

Last year, 1,173 Americans were shot to death by police. That is an average of more than three every day. Police use of lethal force was greater last year than at any point in the last decade. So far ...

Police data shows that despite reduced crime, officers are using more force now, and Black people are seven times more likely to be targeted than whites.

Amid a dramatic rise in drug overdoses and several stabbings, Los Angeles County transit officials moved forward with creating a new police force in hopes of putting riders at ease. The in-house ...

Most cops don’t want to kill people, and most officers go their entire careers without firing their gun, but every officer knows he or she may someday have to make that choice. Police have the ...

The five new officers will be based across the county, police say.