Police Violence
Tracking updates on, reactions to, and racial dynamics of the disproportionate amount of police violence in America.
The biggest storyline at the 2026 Australian Open is Americans being asked about Trump.
A federal judge just threatened to hold the agency’s leader in contempt.
Alex Pretti’s death has pushed more and more lawmakers into saying something must be done.
The answer could hinge on a Supreme Court ruling from 1890 — and another from 2025.
Since Renee Good’s killing, more residents are trying to protect their neighbors themselves.
The Twin Cities were already on edge. Now they’re full of anguish.
The fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, briefly explained.
Broadly, there are 5 ways to constrain rogue federal law enforcement agents. The Supreme Court nuked 3 of them.
An expert on political violence offers warnings — and some hope.
Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.
The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.
Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.
The Birthright Citizenship argument wasn’t the only significant news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
The Bruen decision upended America’s gun laws. Years later, cops and courts are still trying to sort out the mess.
The Trump administration is freezing the Justice Department’s work on police reform.
It adds to a long and disturbing pattern of police violence toward Black Americans.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence.
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead.
Six former police officers tortured two Black men. They’re getting sentenced this week.
The Fifth Circuit has spent years harassing a civil rights activist, and they gutted much of the First Amendment in the process.
Ta’Kiya Young’s fatal shooting — and bodycam footage — renews scrutiny of police violence.
France finds itself at the center of the global reckoning over police violence.
A rogue federal court has spent years harassing a prominent civil rights advocate.
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of all three charges in the killing of George Floyd.
After the murder of George Floyd, the Department of Justice began investigating Minneapolis. Here’s what they found.
Incumbent mayors in Chicago almost never lose a reelection bid. But Lori Lightfoot ran into an issue that’s plaguing Democrats across the country.
How traffic stops became so dangerous for Black drivers.
Five Memphis police officers are facing murder charges over Nichols’s death.
Five Memphis police officers were charged with second-degree murder, and protests sprang up nationwide after Memphis released video footage of the assault.
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Taking a new look at one of the most commonly adopted police reforms in the country.
New calls for police reform face old Democratic and Republican divisions in Congress.
Body camera footage shows Memphis police viciously beating Nichols, who died three days later.
How the director of an astonishing new documentary used old government footage to shed light on the present.
Akron police officers released body camera footage of the killing that raises questions about excessive force.
Egbert v. Boule is a severe blow to the proposition that law enforcement must obey the Constitution.
What’s the remedy if a federal official violates your constitutional rights? The answer may soon be nothing.
America’s tremendous number of firearms makes it much harder to reform policing.
There’s solid evidence for the crime-fighting abilities of police. But it requires a close look.