Police

New research suggests a culture of bias is a bigger problem than individual racist officers.

• By Tom Jacobs

William Gross will become the top cop in a department that's struggling to modernize and overcome accusations of entrenched racial bias.

• By Jack Herrera

A state Senate bill, which would significantly restrict police's use deadly force, faces stiff opposition from law enforcement organizations.

• By Rebecca Worby

A conversation with professor Frank Baumgartner, who led a research team that analyzed every North Carolina police stop since 2002.

• By Tanvi Misra

The perp walk scratches a satisfying itch for retribution, but it also gives alleged assailants the opportunity to co-opt what should be a somber moment for their own self-aggrandizement.

• By James McWilliams

Community trauma remains a major issue in marginalized communities. But there's still little research to show how police cause mental-health issues—or what can be done to lessen the communal anguish.

• By Rosalie Chan

A small town in northern Minnesota is paving the way for police departments in their efforts to process and mitigate huge backlogs of untested rape kits.

• By Ashley Hackett

By bending over backwards for the Protect and Serve Act, Democrats just proved that Trump's law and order mantra may remain his most lasting legacy.

• By Jared Keller

New research argues the answer depends in part on the color of your collar.

• By Tom Jacobs

School officials shouldn't joke about calling the cops on vulnerable children. They should also stop treating non-compliance as criminal.

• By David M. Perry

In a city that has continually pushed for stricter gun laws, the Chicago Police Department has routinely failed to flag people whom it considers mentally unfit to legally carry a gun.

• By Ashley Hackett

On the role that queer people of color play in resisting oppressive policing.

• By Che Gossett, Reina Gossett & A.J. Lewis

Este artículo trata sobre el papel que desempeñan las personas queer de color en la resistencia a la vigilancia policial opresiva.

• By Che Gossett, Reina Gossett & A.J. Lewis

The police chief of Chatham, New York, has a revolutionary strategy for policing the opioid epidemic.

• By Alastair Boone

On the historic role of policing in reinforcing racial inequality and how it has led to black Americans' fear of police.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones

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• By Pacific Standard Staff
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On the latest episode of Pacific Standard's podcast about how our stories are made, reporter Alli Maloney talks about investing institutional racism within the Columbus Division of Police.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Since 2013, the Columbus Division of Police has shot and killed dozens of people. The majority of them were black.

• By Alli Maloney

Many critics have praised Martin McDonagh's nuanced portrayal of bigotry. But his black characters are mere devices—and the bigot's redemption never really feels earned.

• By Hanif Abdurraqib

Professor John Hoberman turns his attention to cops.

• By Peter C. Baker

A firework explodes during clashes between protesters and police in central Athens on December 6th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Only a fraction of bias crimes ever get reported. Fewer still get successfully prosecuted. Perhaps the widespread lack of training for frontline officers has something to do with that.

• By A.C. Thompson, Rohan Naik & Ken Schwencke

Children ride a merry-go-round on opening day at the Christmas market in Magdeburg on November 27th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

1983's Policing a Class Society argued that the police has always protected the interests of the upper classes.

• By Elizabeth King