A former East Texas deputy has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the...
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Police in Ohio’s capital will be limited in how they can use force against protesters and will have to display...
Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have approved the formation of a police oversight board. The Louisville Metro Council voted last...
The family of a man who died after being arrested by Valley City, N.D., police in 2018 has reached a...
The company that owned a Cleveland, Ohio, bowling alley has settled part of a lawsuit brought by the family of...

The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests...

The diverse opponents of qualified immunity have thrown their weight behind at least five appeals now awaiting the Supreme Court’s...
Dog bites man may not be a news story — but in nine western states, it’s grounds for a constitutional...
South Carolina taxpayers are spending millions of dollars a year addressing alleged misdeeds by law officers or detention officials including...
Minnesota’s Stearns County’s insurance trust has paid $350,000 to a man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s...