We hear it all the time in true crime podcasts, headlines and neighborhood chatter: Call the cops. The cops showed up. Good cop, bad cop. But have you ever stopped to investigate where the word cop ...

ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro. The Department of Homeland Security says the ...

Five police officers were shot and three were killed in a shooting in York County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, authorities said. The gunman, who has not yet been publicly identified, was killed by ...

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The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of Mr. Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. Killings of armed people have increased, while killings of unarmed people ...

The number of people killed by police officers rose slightly in 2024, the smallest increase recorded in years, according to a report released Tuesday by Mapping Police Violence. Police killed more ...

A small but growing number of police departments are adopting software products that use artificial intelligence (AI) to draft police reports for officers. Police reports play an important role in ...

Police departments have been forced to find all sorts of new vehicles to make up for the loss of the iconic Ford Crown Victoria, which served as a staple of cop car fleets for decades. As far as we ...

A police department in Southern California says it has the country’s first Tesla Cybertruck for police use, but the unusual vehicle won’t see much action. The Irvine Police Department unveiled the ...

A Missouri police officer and mother of six was killed during a high-speed chase after losing control of her patrol car while trying to conduct a traffic stop. Osage Beach police officer Phylicia ...

Understaffing in the Austin Police Department in Texas has left residents concerned about crime in the city. Residents in the Montopolis neighborhood in Austin’s southeast told KVUE-TV crime in their ...

According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. Wolford, Jr. was, in fact, ...