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Billy Jensen and Alexis Linkletter's new investigative podcast 'Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer' looks at the case of disgraced police chief James Burke — and asks what the Suffolk County Police Department may have been hiding

Segment opens with a delightful, if unrelated, tangent on the short-lived TV musical, Cop Rock

A grand jury declined to indict cops who detained and knelt on Prude, who died seven days after the incident

There are varying perspectives and ideas on what "defund the police" means

“It’s a problem that police departments across this country sometimes can’t even tell you how many people they shot and killed the prior year and that we don’t know how pervasive [their] use of force is,” Lynda Garcia, director of the policing program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, tells TIME. “Police…

The Rochester Police Department (RPD) is investigating the actions of several officers after a 9-year-old girl was restrained and pepper-sprayed during an arrest on Jan. 29. Around 150 people peacefully took to the city’s streets on Monday night to protest the incident, which has garnered national attention after bodycam footage of the arrest was released…

A New Hampshire police chief; a Philadelphia detective; two Seattle Police Department officers who traveled cross-country, to name just a few. In the aftermath of the historic insurrection that took place in Washington D.C. last week, which left five people—including a Capitol police officer—dead, police departments across the U.S. have begun reckoning with the likelihood…

A Wisconsin DA has declined to file charges against officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot seven times Jacob Blake during an August 2020 incident

The federal government is joining an investigation into the shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was killed by a Sheriff’s Deputy in Columbus, Ohio on Dec. 4. The U.S. Attorney in Ohio, the FBI, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Columbus Police Department will work together to investigate the latest…

Independent police academies graduate thousands of officers a year, but there's no oversight of their programs and no national standard for what a good cop should—or should not—be taught

For many Americans, one of the more pressing domestic issues a Biden-Harris administration needs to tackle upon their inauguration in January is that of criminal justice and police reform. A hot-button issue during much of the presidential campaign, calls for action at the federal level have been at the front of public consciousness since the…

The lawsuit counters the widespread calls to defund police departments and take officers off the streets