Each night, volunteers spread out through courtrooms to try to keep judges honest.

How do you use police to address sexual violence when they themselves are part of the problem?

Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.

There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.

Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?

In a global health crisis, political déjà vu becomes deadlier.

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since

The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

Arrests and crime are down amid cops’ protest of the firing of officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner.

A new documentary tells the story of cops who have blown the whistle on the NYPD's predatory tactics.

It's not a crime to ask for a swipe, but the NYPD might arrest you for it.

The NYPD can’t delete brutality from its history.

The DOJ's Ferguson probe shows why we need to get proactive

The NYPD commish strikes the right note, but real reform still waits

What police officers' demand for respect really means