Four years ago, all eight elected Harris County constables gathered before residents and TV cameras to announce that they had all agreed to implement a single, unified use-of-force policy. The ...

In response to some excellent questions from a reader on the previous post about engaging in “corrective violence,” this post continues that discussion. Basically, the questions were: Should all use ...

A federal judge has released an extensive report on "Operation Midway Blitz." It is over 200 pages long. The 7th Circuit Appellate Court has temporarily blocked the preliminary injunction handed down ...

Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...

Springfield police used force 158 times in 2024 — a slight increase from the previous year and enough to mean officers used force in nearly 1 out of every 25 arrests, according to a new report ...

For the fourth year in a row, use-of-force incidents involving Chicago police officers are increasing, with advocates and officials saying the trend is helping to bring the reform process to a key ...

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The killing of George Floyd five years ago by a Minneapolis police officer ignited what many reform advocates hoped would be a national effort to end, or at least curb, excessive use of force. But the ...

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KANNAPOLIS — In this week’s Citizen Police Academy with Kannapolis police, Lt. Justin Smith gave the run down on use of force by officers, including use of deadly force, and what the state allows and ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now ...