Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did the agents' own actions create the dangers they faced? These are exactly the questions use of force policies exist to help ...

When Spokane Police Ombudsman Bart Logue wrote in a 2019 report that the department should remove the use of “exceptional techniques” from its policy manual following the firing of an officer who ...

The Aurora Police Department says calls involving the use of force continue to rise. But, a new report from the department says officers are using less lethal methods in those interactions. The ...

CLEVELAND -- The recent indictment of two Canton police officers in the April death of Frank Tyson, whom they had been trying to subdue, underscores a pervasive issue in law enforcement -- a culture ...

Four years ago, all eight elected Harris County constables gathered before residents and TV cameras to announce that they had all agreed to implement a single, unified use-of-force policy. The ...

DIFFICULT FOR OFFICERS. AND SANTA FE POLICE’S USE OF FORCE IS NOW UP 74% FROM 2021 TO 2023. THE RISE THAT WE’RE SEEING IS A RESULT OF MORE SUSPECTS AND MORE PEOPLE FIGHTING WITH OUR OFFICERS AND ...

A three-pronged research project seeks to empower communities, policymakers, and law enforcement agencies by improving access to and understanding of police use-of-force rules.

The Cleveland Police Department marked a major benchmark with its consent decree after independent monitors found that 97% of the division’s level one and level two uses of ...

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Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...