A proposed change to the city's charter would give the City Council greater authority over the LAPD.

Though the number of police officers killed in the line of duty has dropped, non-fatal assaults against them have been rising since 2021, according to new data released Monday by the FBI.

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (KDKA) - One officer was killed and another was injured after a shooting in McKeesport. The officers were responding to a domestic call on Wilson Street when they encountered the ...

To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French ...

In Minneapolis and elsewhere, the movement faltered after crime surged and activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition. George Floyd Square is seen through the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barry Friedman, the director of New York University's Policing Project, about the role of the police in modern society. What are police really for in this country?