The attack comes as tensions are heightened around the world at the beginning of Hannukah, the Jewish holiday that begins on ...

The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law ...

An unidentified driver threw an object through another vehicle’s window in a November road-rage incident on Interstate 83 in ...

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than ...

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It would be easy to think that the police officer is a figure who has existed since the beginning of civilization. That’s the idea on display in the proclamation from President John F. Kennedy on the ...

After all the attention the Black Lives Matter-led racial justice movement generated after George Floyd’s death in 2020, new data show that the number of Black people killed by police has actually ...

• A paper from 2013 shows dramatically lower life expectancy for police officers than for members of the general public. • Two other studies have found either no gap in life expectancy or greater life ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing, and Derecka Purnell, a lawyer who advocates for defunding the police, about what abolishing the police would look like.

To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French ...