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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Supreme Court precedent still dominates the legal approach to the use of force, while a patchwork of state and city laws governs how the police should act. By Adeel Hassan A federal civil rights ...

A police firearm is shown. When it comes to being a law enforcement officer in Kansas, you better have done some reading before you ever pull your weapon. The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center — ...

Ongoing series about the Fairfax County Police Department and its policies and history on use of deadly force. This matters in our county because only by capturing the full picture of each such case ...

The killing of George Floyd five years ago by a Minneapolis police officer ignited what many reform advocates hoped would be a national effort to end, or at least curb, excessive use of force. But the ...

Most cops don’t want to kill people, and most officers go their entire careers without firing their gun, but every officer knows he or she may someday have to make that choice. Police have the ...

The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups ...