This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police play in modern society and how they came to serve this ...

The New Orleans Police Department is averaging about 3.8 traffic crashes per week in 2015 involving department vehicles and officers. (Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) A study of more than ...

A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians. Citing ...

A staffing analysis found “real and uneven staffing pressures” within the Chicago Police Department and recommended hiring 270 additional officers and 90 sergeants while shifting about 600 sworn ...

Three communities in Beaver County are considering a new method of policing, with the potential of creating the largest police force in the region. The Department of Community and Economic Development ...

Researchers comparing information from death certificates with data from organizations that track police killings in the United States identified a startling discrepancy. By Tim Arango and Shaila ...

The study, conducted by Matrix Consulting Group, was commissioned by the City Council in February 2024 to find ways to close gaps between police response times in different neighborhoods.