Policing

Citing the need to increase the number of enlisted troopers, state officials announced an additional training class for 2023.

The U.S. Justice Department grant will be used, in part, to get people into treatment. And, to help children of substance abusers.

Springfield Township residents are divided over the Police Benevolent Association’s use of the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag in its logo.

Body camera footage shows a close-up view of an intense struggle — but the video goes dark 42 seconds before the officer shoots the Black man in the head.

Peter Lyoya brought his family from Congo to the U.S. in 2014 to escape violence. Now he fears they came here to die

Video shows a Michigan police officer struggling with a Black man over a Taser before fatally shooting him in the head while the man was face down on the ground.

The briefings emphasize police responses to shootings, which attendees and experts believe contributes to harmful portrayals of gun violence in the media.

The design for the sculpture commissioned for the new Philly police headquarters was altered following the 2020 protest over the killing of George Floyd.

Officers say they found the gunman dead from a gunshot wound that they determined was self-inflicted.

prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant.

The settlement pays a total of $865,000 to 10 plaintiffs, with a portion going to the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

The Provident Mutual building has since been reimagined, and an elementary school is moving in this fall.

City Council President Clarke’s goal is to embed officers in communities to build relationships that could lead to a decrease in the violence that has plagued Philadelphia.

Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday when the gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit.

Councilmember Green’s proposal, which would only kick in when staffing levels are low, would also relax requirements for city residency.