Police Archives

Viewfinder: Protests Against the Cook County State’s Attorney Over the Jussie Smollett Case

Protesters organized by the Fraternal Order of Police call for the removal of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx on April 1st, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Comoros Police Quell Protests Over the Presidential Election

Comoros Gendarmerie officers disperse opposition supporters in the city of Moroni on March 25th, 2019.

Pacific Standard Staff

Police move to disperse thousands of people marching down Istiklal Street during a rally for International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 8th, 2019.

Viewfinder: Istanbul Police Disperse International Women’s Day Rally

Police tried to break up the rally as marchers moved down Istiklal Street.

Pacific Standard Staff

Metropolitan Detention Center security staff and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Team patrol the grounds after reports of a bomb threat at the facility on February 4th, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Power has been fully restored to the prison after inmates suffered the past week without heat or access to televisions, computers, or telephones. On Monday morning, the facility received a bomb threat following a weekend of protests against the frigid conditions and just hours after defense lawyers filed a lawsuit over this "humanitarian crisis."

Viewfinder: Police Respond to a Bomb Threat at a Brooklyn Jail

Security staff patrol the grounds of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after reports of a bomb threat at the facility on February 4th, 2019.

Pacific Standard Staff

Police investigate the scene of a shooting near the Chinatown neighborhood where four people were shot in an apparent road rage incident on September 19th, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

News in Brief

Police Are Most Likely to Use Deadly Force in Poorer, More Highly Segregated Neighborhoods

Researchers say knowing where fatal police interactions occur can help community leaders target programs aimed at reducing those deaths.

Francie Diep

News in Brief

Overheard: The Conversation, in Context

"Verizon has always reserved the right to limit data throughput on unlimited plans."

Pacific Standard Staff

A body camera from Taser is seen during a press conference at City Hall on September 24th, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

How Do Body Cameras Influence Our Judgment of Blame?

A new study finds that people who watch body camera footage attribute less blame to police officers involved in incidents than if those same officers were caught on dash cams.

Kate Wheeling

A police officer wears a body camera during an anti-Donald Trump protest in Cleveland

Social Justice

A Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Activists Who Covertly Record Police Interactions

The ruling is an important step forward for the First Amendment's "right to record," which has become increasingly valuable at a time when images of police brutality often go viral.

Mark Joseph Stern

A police officer in Bakersfield, California.

A New Database Seeks to Catalog—and Hold Accountable—Police Officers Across the U.S.

Pacific Standard spoke with Camille Fassett, a researcher with Lucy Parsons Labs, about the OpenOversight program—a public database indexing law enforcement officers by name, photo, incidents, and more.

Arvind Dilawar

Former United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Social Justice

What a Lack of Federal Oversight Means for Local Police Reform

In his last act as attorney general, Jeff Sessions severely limited the Department of Justice's oversight of police departments in places like Elkhart, Indiana.

Christian Sheckler & Ken Armstrong