An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.

Rosa Brooks wanted to fix law enforcement. She decided to become a police officer.

Fox News’s prime-time star has long been a dull racist. Why is the mainstream media only realizing it now?

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

Tech companies praised the Derek Chauvin conviction, but their products underwrite the kind of impunity and overstep they claim to oppose.

State prosecutors argued, and a jury agreed, that George Floyd’s death was outside the boundaries of good policing. But the truth was more ambiguous, and tellingly so.

The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.

While police in Minneapolis assault reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is endorsing violence against demonstrators. It’s time for journalists to put up a fight.

Daunte Wright was dead. Minnesota police raised a “thin blue line” flag, claiming their deadly force with a mark of pride.

Recent reporting suggests that lawmakers across the country are ending a long-standing legal protection for police officers, but that isn’t quite true.

If George Floyd was somehow culpable in his own death, the defense seemed to argue, then so were the bystanders.

What is lost when we fail to name Everard’s alleged killer as a cop?

Convicting a police officer of murder or creating more oversight won’t stop the killing

The storm on Congress was extremely goofy and deadly serious. Making sense of it will require some dexterity.

From “Everybody Hates Bill” to “Go Home Jacob,” it’s been a rough year for the faces of local power.

Pollsters keep tripping over contradictions in how communities of color talk about cops.

All summer, police gave far-right demonstrators a long leash while cracking down on left-leaning protesters. Why would this week be any different?

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

A case out of Wisconsin reveals how fragile—and superficial—coalitions between anti-violence organizations and police really are.