Allegations of racist conduct among police forces have led to numerous calls for reform, most of which fail to address the core issues.
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Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
The new police unit will attempt to prevent crime from happening before it starts. But research is mixed with this type of policing.
Even crime we think of as ‘local’ can exploit force boundaries.
It’s a common misconception that facial recognition technology captures and stores an image of your face.
Proposed reforms are a missed opportunity to give the public what they want from policing.
The 1984 shooting death of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.
Kenya now needs to rethink its approach by targeting police funding to improve the poor working environment.
Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
People who are in distress and need support are often met with handcuffs, detention and are sent to hospital emergency departments.
One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
The current blue-on-blue battle between competing law enforcement agencies in a large British Columbia city does little to strengthen public trust in the rule of law and in our police forces
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is a police-like body which is not subject to police oversight. This must change.
Due to limited interactions with the police, Kenyans in rural areas are less likely to see the police as relevant actors.
Police brutality disproportionately affects Black communities and can cause numerous adverse effects, including depression, anxiety and trauma.
President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
The case of Tyre Nichols highlights how traffic stops can turn deadly. Traffic stops are also prone to racial bias, can break down community trust in police and yield few results, research shows.
The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history.
London’s police force has a deeply ingrained culture that can’t be fixed by one commissioner.
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
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