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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remain with state police service, contract outside police services, join a regional police force or create a new stand-alone police department. A recent study analyzed the costs, benefits and ...