Paul Vallas has locked arms with the police, associated with an anti-LGBTQ group, and been mired in scandals. So why is he leading ahead of Tuesday’s election in the overwhelmingly Democratic city?

How a family in Missouri almost lost their kid, and couldn’t fight back thanks to qualified immunity laws.

The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.

A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.

How much carnage do we need to see before we understand that we have to radically change how traffic violations are policed?

Environmental defenders get killed at appalling rates in other countries. Could that trend come to the U.S.?

Politicians on both sides of the aisle spent the midterms telling us that more police and prisons will make us safer. Voters didn’t bite—and perhaps they know better.

Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.

Crime is real. Democrats should work to fight it. But caving in to fearmongering from the right isn’t the way to do it.

This is actually a mass sociogenic illness, and medical experts have been debunking it for years.

The bills would have increased police funding, but progressive Democrats wanted more language about police accountability.

A new law in Arizona requiring people to stand eight feet back from police activity could set a new trend across the country.

The justices consistently ruled against plaintiffs who had their constitutional rights violated—and, in some cases, their bodies abused—by police, the Border Patrol, and the CIA.

Cops have been given an incredible set of legal powers immunizing them from the fatal errors of their own decisions—including their decision to do nothing in Uvalde, Texas.

Working as a police informant can be deadly—and people with a history of drug use are at extra risk of relapse or overdose.

How about we worry a little less about post-verdict demonstrations and a little more about the fascistic hate that is on the rise in the United States?

If Minneapolis had voted yes to reshuffle the place of police in the city, it would have been an uphill battle to enact reform.

After decades in operation, Crime Stoppers’ role in shaping policy and public perception on criminal justice has received little scrutiny.

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

We’ve heard this story before, when police said criminal justice reform would lead to mass resignations.