Databases Vastly Underreport Police Homicides
But a CDC database that began in 2003 may help solve that problem.
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Can Someone Please Convince Cops That Most Rape Allegations Are Not False Already?
Research shows only a small number of rape allegations are actually false, so why are the police so hard to convince otherwise?
Which Police Strategies Work?
A new report examines data from more than 1,400 studies of programs such as broken windows policing, gun buybacks, therapy, and other attempts to curtail death and violence in American cities.
Cops Use Less Force on Suspects Who Look Really, Really White
A new study of arrest records finds a different sort of racial bias.
How Ferguson Is Trying to Fix Its Police Force
Your guide to the Department of Justice's agreement with the Ferguson Police Department.
Two of Los Angeles’ Biggest Wrongful Conviction Cases Exemplify the Justice System’s Biggest Errors
Together, the exonerated men have spent 60 years in prison.
Should Los Angeles County Predict Which Children Will Become Criminals?
One major difference separates troubling Minority Report policing programs from what happened in L.A. County's child welfare system.
You Are Now Under the Influence
At a police academy, future officers learn to test drivers' intoxication levels by testing the legal limit themselves.
Eight Beers Deep With America’s Finest
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Inside the Police-Industrial Complex
At the 2015 convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a view of the public-private partnerships that have come to shape modern policing—and to complicate questions of reform.