Escorting pro-refugee protesters to demonstrations outside an asylum hotel was a "public safety decision", a police force ...

The PEACE Act of 2022, an acronym for Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone, was introduced in both chambers of Congress by California lawmakers U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Alex Padilla.

New York Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, introduced a bill called the "Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act." The bill would establish a $24 million grant program for the next five years to ...

Thursday's demonstration was one of a series of protests outside the hotel since 38-year-old asylum seeker Hadush ...

Debate over police using excessive force in black and Latino communities has been an ongoing theme in America’s narrative long before this month’s high-profile police shootings of two black ...

Recent deaths at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo., and on Staten Island, N.Y., have rightly raised questions about illegal force and racial bias in law enforcement.

The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 is a Washington, D.C. law passed in 2022 to address transparency and accountability in the police force.

Deadly force occurs in less than 1% of the millions of encounters police have with people each year. A look at the laws and policies governing when police can use deadly force: There are two ...

Under a memorandum of understanding, the township agreed to pay Smith a pension of $1,149 per month retroactive to July 1, ...

Police Accountability Act reform: The Police Accountability Act seeks to amend this law by establishing a “last resort” standard, whereby use of force must be a last resort that officers can ...