To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French ...

One of the Scottsdale Police Department’s slogans has been to “honor its past and imagine its future.” Within a few months, more than 43 years of the city’s law enforcement history will be donated ...

Residents didn’t have to break the law to get up close and personal with the Glendale Police Department on Saturday, when the agency welcomed guests to its annual open house. The event featured ...

What Is ‘Defund the Police’? “Defund the police” is a phrase used to call for law enforcement reform in the United States.

The Miami Police on Thursday unveiled a Black History Month-inspired vehicle wrap that features the pan-African colors, outlines of the African continent, raised fists and kente cloth. “Miami Police ...

Miami police unveiled a Black History Month-themed cop car on Thursday afternoon, and many took to social media to share their dissatisfaction with the concept. The red, yellow, green, blue and pink ...

At least two police departments — one in Columbus, Ohio, the other in Miami — are celebrating Black History Month in a way some observers are not happy with. The Columbus Division of Police unveiled ...

The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far ...

An exhibition at Carillon Historical Park will transport visitors to a time when a secret knock opened the door to a speakeasy, brazen gangsters pulled daylight robberies and Dayton’s finest kept the ...

This story is being co-published by AL.com and Invisible Institute, a public accountability journalism nonprofit based in Chicago. In a wave of criminal justice reforms passed after George Floyd’s ...