Home surveillance video captured an incident in Wilmerding, Allegheny County, where it appears excessive force was used during the arrest of a juvenile over the weekend. Several organizations, ...

A man has filed a $1 million federal lawsuit against the town of Stoughton and the Stoughton Police Department, alleging three of its officers used violent and excessive force by repeatedly tasing him ...

“I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force,” Trump said, adding at a press conference later, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A Boone County sheriff’s deputy forcibly administered NARCAN to a disoriented Lebanon man by wrestling him to the ground, but the sheriff’s department denies that the force required to ...

Maine’s public safety chief will take questions from lawmakers Tuesday following two excessive force lawsuits against the state police this fall, one of them related to the beating of a handcuffed man ...

Maine Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck speaks during a graduation ceremony at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. Photo by Linda Coan O ...

In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU) method ...

A former Paterson police officer has sued the city, its police department and several officials, alleging civil rights violations and malicious prosecution, after he was indicted and acquitted on ...

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A federal jury has awarded $2.56 million to a protester who says she was left brain damaged after NYPD cops slammed her head to the pavement during a 2020 Black Lives Matter George Floyd demonstration ...

In the span of less than 72 hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Victor Mojica went from being widely vilified and placed on administrative leave — to being returned right back to his ...