In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law enforcement with a holding in Graham v Connor (Graham), that changed the manner in which courts evaluated use of force claims, changing from a subjective due ...

Recruits from different law enforcement agencies are the region with one thing in common. They’re completing basic academy at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. A total of 70 hours is ...

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There is no common definition for “use of force” by police. Data about cases in which police used force is limited, as is data about cases involving “excessive” use of force. Black people are ...

Since August 2020, Minnesota has expanded its data collection of use-of-force incidents involving members of law enforcement, but questions remain for many about the integrity of the reporting process ...

Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Philando Castile are just a few of the Black Americans killed by police in recent years whose deaths spurred widespread ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two officers roughly 400 miles apart claimed self-defense after they were indicted this summer in the murders of two Black women, killings that sparked a national outcry over police brutality and law ...

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Shortly after midnight on Aug. 29, 2022, Portland police Officer Nicholas Wambold responded to reports of an alleged assault outside a bar in southeast Portland. Witnesses described a man who had been ...