This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police play in modern society and how they came to serve this ...

SEATTLE — Police pursuits should be rare and limited to violent criminals who pose an imminent threat, according to a new study published this week. The research by the Police Executive Research Forum ...

Police in Alameda County are more likely to handcuff Black children experiencing a mental health crisis — particularly girls — than children of other races, according to a new study out of UCSF ...

How do female police officers, who are often excluded from the traditional masculine occupational culture of policing, feel about their working environment and how the public perceives them? A new ...

For the past 60 years, concerns over U.S. police officers' excessive use of force and race-based targeting of citizens, and ...

LGBTQ+ people are significantly more likely to stopped, harassed, and even falsely accused by the police than non-LGBTQ+ people, according to a new study released by the Williams Institute. As a ...

After years of fits and starts, a study which will help the Chicago Police Department determine which neighborhoods see additions or subtractions in officer deployment is at last in development. The ...

A state study recommends that Etna and Reserve form a regional police department, while also finding that doing so will cost each municipality more for police services. The Governor’s Center for Local ...

EAST LANSING - A study of East Lansing's policing practices found low morale among employees, seven or more use of force incidents annually for more than one in five officers and several "poorly ...

Milwaukee police are short staffed and short on time for proactive policework, and changing that will require some combination of additional, reallocated and civilianized personnel, according to a ...

Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto presented some of the study's findings at a press conference Wednesday. A long-awaited police staffing study has found that Pittsburgh has an adequate number of ...

Leechburg officials are moving forward with efforts to regionalize their police force with West Leechburg and Parks Township. A regional police study was completed in December, and it recommended ...