Policing

Federal prosecutors will not charge a NYC police officer in the death of Eric Garner, closing another door for Garner's family and police reform activists.

Lawyers for rapper Meek Mill say if granted a new trial, he would not be convicted since prosecutors would not call the officer who testified in the first one.

Krasner filed a motion arguing the state has used the death penalty arbitrarily, thus violating protections against cruel punishments.

The disclosure of civilian complaints for officers in the scandalizing social media database is likely the largest records disclosure in department history.

Law-enforcement agencies across the country would be able to get funding for mental health resources, under legislation passed by Congress this week.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross has vowed to fire some officers who made offensive Facebook posts. But whether those firings stick isn't up to him.

Forty out of nearly 8,000 inmates processed at the county jail in 2018 were found to be undocumented immigrants and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Philadelphia police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a 39 year-old officer with the department and his estranged wife.

The report comes amid growing outrage over detention conditions for migrants

Two friends touched by last month’s shooting at a graduation party in Southwest Philly organized a rally that drew 50 people, including city officials.

Mayors and police commissioners have been trying to reform the arbitration process for more than half a century.

“You need to say if we do this, this is the commitment we would have to make financially."

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charge

The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing state police for, it says, illegally turning drivers over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Police officials in Philadelphia are describing the action as the largest removal of officers from the street in recent memory.