U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed a national data collection program in her “Exit Interview.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed her support for a recently announced program ...

A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy San Diego Police Department) The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly ...

Pittsburgh police in riot gear stand across from demonstrators with Indivisible Pittsburgh at the intersection of South Craig Street and Forbes Avenue (Caleb McCartney for Next Generation Newsroom) ...

In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along ...

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It’s quite democracy-affirming, if somewhat startling in its frankness, to open up the website for the brand new Police Records Access Project database for the state of California. It’s the official ...

Since 2023, both criminal homicides and total violent crime have been trending downward in the nation’s fifth-largest city.

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Constanze Kurz and Franziska Görlitz warn against the use of Palantir by the police. Fundamental rights are at risk.

The former sergeant is facing one charge of breach of trust and one charge of unauthorized use of a computer Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Today, for the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in California. KQED, along with journalism and police accountability advocates, is publishing a database ...