After an ICE agent fired shots during an arrest in St. Paul, experts explain how federal and local use-of-force rules compare.

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death. Over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued ...

Kaicey Baylor joined WJZ as a reporter in October 2024. Before coming to Charm City, she spent the last three years as a morning reporter and multiskilled journalist at 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia. She covered several stories including the Chesapeake ...

In the heat of action, our careful plans often collide with the unpredictable, reminding us that control is just an illusion.

The shuttering of a military police battalion at Fort Drum, New York, this week marks the latest in a string of two dozen Army MP units closed in the last 18 months. The Army has already inactivated nine military police companies and 15 detachments.

Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor.

ATLANTA—When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. But that day in spring 2021 ...

Recent reports about a "Goon Squad" of abusive police officers in Mississippi have thrust police misconduct back into national headlines. And an essential question continues to be debated: What is the proper role for the police in American society?

The Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department’s budget increased by 5% this year — but it still costs its member communities less than what they were paying for their individual departments years ago. Cheswick, East Deer and Springdale Township each ...

Celaya’s mayor replaced most of the local police force with national guard troops after a wave of cartel violence and the assassination of a mayoral candidate. More municipalities are leaning on the military for local policing. Police corruption is ...

San Francisco is considering reviving its “patrol special” squad, a for-hire private security service enshrined in the city charter and with roots stretching back to the Gold Rush-era. Patrol specials are non-sworn but armed officers appointed by the ...