Like the president, New York City’s mayor has shrunk from sight amid anti-police protests.

Mainstream press coverage of state violence tends to frame it as if it happened by magic.

The protests across the country are about more than police violence.

The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

The mayor of New York City was once a hero on the left. His inability to rouse interest in a run says a lot about him as a politician—as well as the current anxieties of the Democratic Party.

A new documentary tells the story of cops who have blown the whistle on the NYPD's predatory tactics.

How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality

Many whites see the police as a tool to enforce a certain racial order.

California lawmakers want to raise the legal threshold for officers' use of lethal force. Will the idea catch on across America?

The trial of two crooked cops could mark a turning point for the broken department, despite Trump's indifference to the problem.

Taking the knee has become an anodyne symbol of opposition to a reviled president. But there are ways to get Kaepernick's original message across.

Police are suppressing the rights of protesters—and that's just the way Trump wants it.

A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.

Two years after his death at the hands of police officer Raymond Tensing, a jury stands poised to deliver a historic verdict.

The outrage over the incident has largely left out discussion of the man's race. And that's a problem.

An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans, and turned the city into a battleground.