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 ...

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 — ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday delivered a damning condemnation of the use of force in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in this city, saying officers have ...

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 ...

Two officers roughly 400 miles apart claimed self-defense after they were indicted this summer in the murders of two Black women, killings that sparked a national outcry over police brutality and law ...

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 ...

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 ...