Independent federal monitors found 97% of Cleveland police level one and level two use-of-force incidents in 2024 were constitutional, marking a major benchmark nearly 11 years into the consent decree ...

Victoria Lee. Najee Seabrooks. Deborah Terrell. Andrew Washington. And, on Jan. 19, a Newark man, later identified in reports as Wali Bey. These are the names of just five of the victims of at least ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Safety officials announced Thursday that the Cleveland police department reached a significant benchmark in its reform efforts, with independent monitors finding cops are using force ...

Melvindale Police Officer Matthew Furman is on trial for allegedly using excessive force during two traffic stops in 2024.

Public conversations about policing often begin the moment force is used, but they rarely start with the question officers must answer in real time: When is force necessary? Police officers are ...

After an ICE agent fired shots during an arrest in St. Paul, experts explain how federal and local use-of-force rules compare. Federal immigration agents are governed by many of the same ...

The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that Anton’s Law, the state’s historic police transparency measure, requires law ...

Santa Fe police officers are using physical force with increasing frequency when responding to calls for service. The number of use-of-force incidents almost tripled between 2020 and 2024, a newly ...

Arlington police saw an 11% decrease in the number of times force was used against people from 2024 to 2025. Police in Arlington used force against Black people about twice as many times as the next ...

Federal immigration agents are governed by many of the same constitutional limits on use of force as local police. But they operate under different policies and face different accountability systems.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Use of Force Directive, revised in 2020 and 2025, governs when police officers in New Jersey can use deadly force against citizens. Data from the Attorney General's ...