They wield the important power of determining a victim’s manner of death—but they’re susceptible to both political pressure and racial bias.

The years-long fight over a planned police training center in an urban forest near Atlanta has pitted community, climate, and justice activists against law enforcement. The result has been violence, arrests—and a renewed crackdown on protest.

The MPD’s violent treatment of nonwhite residents has a much longer tail than the Justice Department’s devastating report makes clear.

A report released on Friday found that the Minneapolis Police Department discriminated against racial minorities for years before Floyd's death in 2020.

The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

A new law in Arizona requiring people to stand eight feet back from police activity could set a new trend across the country.

Biden’s executive order on policing may apply only to federal agents, but until legislation can be passed, it still matters.

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?

If Minneapolis had voted yes to reshuffle the place of police in the city, it would have been an uphill battle to enact reform.

The New York Times and other news media are laundering an exaggerated narrative about besieged officers—one that’s meant to threaten anyone who questions police power.

The deception isn’t just a matter of language. It’s baked into the institution.

The Biden administration is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department, but history shows that the government’s power to rein in cop culture is limited.

The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.

District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

Tucker Carlson wants his viewers to believe that the convicted killer is the real victim.

State prosecutors argued, and a jury agreed, that George Floyd’s death was outside the boundaries of good policing. But the truth was more ambiguous, and tellingly so.

The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.

While police in Minneapolis assault reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is endorsing violence against demonstrators. It’s time for journalists to put up a fight.