One of the Scottsdale Police Department’s slogans has been to “honor its past and imagine its future.” Within a few months, more than 43 years of the city’s law enforcement history will be donated ...

The Minneapolis Police Department isn't going to be dissolved overnight, despite suggestions to the contrary, but in Minneapolis and nationwide, public pressure to overhaul American policing has hit a ...

What Is ‘Defund the Police’? “Defund the police” is a phrase used to call for law enforcement reform in the United States.

To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French ...

SAN FRANCISCO – While the pride flag is bright and colorful, history shows us the ties between law enforcement and the LGBTQ community has been dark and full of tension. In 1969, the Stonewall Riots ...

When the three-person Napa Police Department got its start in 1875, downtown Napa was mostly warehouses, churches, hotels and saloons, with commercial boats that headed up the Napa River with goods ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A look inside file cabinets left untouched for years uncovers history of the Minneapolis Police Department not known until now. "We have old rolls of film, some of them date back ...

A Denver Police Department SWAT vehicle. Photo by Victoria Carodine. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Like many departments across the country ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Operators of the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum say they are racing against the clock to find a new home after the Cincinnati Museum Center rejected its latest attempt to move in ...

The night before Rebecca Hooks started at the Illinois State Police Academy in 2002, she spoke on the phone with her father and her brother – both of whom worked in law enforcement. Her father ...