State Police have a far weaker disciplinary system than those used in other large departments in New York.

The Prison Policy Initiative has highlighted the importance of independent data projects in tracking police misconduct, providing models for local and national efforts to hold law enforcement ...

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a rare artifact that strangely became part of a settlement in a lawsuit that ...

Jessica Tisch promised to restore transparency to the scandal-plagued NYPD when she became police commissioner almost a year ago. And by one measure, she’s disciplining officers much more than her ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Ben Berke of Ocean State Media joined Eli Sherman and Dan McGowan on “Behind the Story” this week to discuss the rollout of a police reform law that went into effect ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned a state law that makes it a crime to file a knowingly false complaint against a ...

New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found. By Sammy Sussman Sammy Sussman pored over thousands of ...