SHAILA DEWAN

The moment was captured on video by a news helicopter, and criticism swiftly followed on social media.

The public increasingly expects that police interactions will be recorded. And police unions increasingly expect a raise for doing the recording.

The Minneapolis Police may agree to court-enforced federal oversight. Experts say it can lead to improvements, though defining success can be difficult.

After the Supreme Court ruled last year that people could carry guns outside their homes, legal challenges and legislative debates have been playing out across...

In Houston, the jail has reached its highest population in a decade. More than half of the detainees who died there had a history of...

Testimony in the George Floyd murder trial raised questions about how Maryland had handled similar cases.

While some mass shootings are committed by people with diagnosed mental illnesses, a life crisis is a better predictor of violence, researchers say.

Disastrous errors by medical examiners have raised questions about whether they are influenced by prejudgments and a close relationship with the police.

Voters ousted Chesa Boudin as the city’s district attorney, but his allies across the country say policies like his can still succeed.