NYPD

A new study suggests police may search and use force more often against black and Hispanic men they perceive to be large.

• By Kate Wheeling

A conversation about the limitations of the “broken windows” theory and our unreasonable expectations of the police.

• By Lauren Kirchner

A blog hosting posts from former and current New York City officers reinforces the worst kinds of stereotypes.

• By Joaquin Sapien

Psychiatric hospitals are not as good at diagnosing the mentally ill as you’d think, and they never really have been.

• By Kate Wheeling

Arizona may become the first state to invest in predictive technologies to stop crimes before they occur.

• By Kate Wheeling

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The NYPD has a secretive program that uses unmarked vans with X-ray machines designed to detect bombs. ProPublica tried to find out more about it, but the NYPD refused to answer for three years. Now, a judge has stepped in.

• By Michael Grabell

As Rudy Giuliani’s old police commissioner William Bratton returns to New York City, new research still fuels a debate over their pet policy.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The “Tobacco Trail” tempts two-bit crooks and big-time smuggling rings.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Racial profiling in luxury stores is causing way more problems than it’s preventing.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Will we soon see video cameras on the shoulder of every cop and corrections officer? Or will the high cost to both budgets and, potentially, individual privacy be enough to stop their adoption nationwide?

• By Lauren Kirchner