Independent federal monitors found 97% of Cleveland police level one and level two use-of-force incidents in 2024 were constitutional, marking a major benchmark nearly 11 years into the consent decree ...

While some federal agencies have specific rules around less-lethal weapons – including CBP, which prohibits intentionally firing pepper balls at heads unless deadly force is justified, among other ...

A Fullterton police officer killed a man in 2024 by firing a bean bag round that pierced the man's chest. The use of force was ruled justified, but the incident raises questions about law ...

In a statement, Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak said a BPD officer was accused of using excessive force during protests on Dorset Street ...

A family is calling for justice and condemning the actions of Baltimore County Police after the release of body camera footage that captured the death of a man after a use-of-force encounter with an ...

Santa Fe police officers are using physical force with increasing frequency when responding to calls for service. The number of use-of-force incidents almost tripled between 2020 and 2024, a newly ...

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. Five years after the ...

In this file image made July 6, 2016, from video captured by a camera in the squad car of St. Anthony Police officer Jeronimo Yanez, the Minnesota police officer, left, is shown after shooting into ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Police Department said it is investigating an arrest under its "use of force" policy on Thursday. The police department said around 7:13 p.m. on Jan. 21, officers and ...

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Vancouver police under investigation for the death of Myles Gray in 2015 have suggested to a use-of-force expert that their clients tried to de-escalate the situation.

The family of Samuel Brown reacted to body camera footage of a police use-of-force incident in Baltimore County that left ...

A field training officer is a special kind of cop. They have to be both patrol officer and mentor, as they teach recruits who are fresh out of the police academy how to put their lessons into practice ...