Five years ago, I led a charge to obtain details of police misconduct from hundreds of police departments across New York, made legally public in the state in 2020. I knew that police could try to ...

Four Charleston attorneys filed a letter with city officials accusing a Charleston police officer and members of a ...

In 2020, New York did away with its law allowing police misconduct records to be private. But a law that previously greenlit the destruction of many of those same records quietly remained on the books ...

An anonymous call to the Greenburgh Police Department in 2019 reported a man for choking his wife and hitting his teenage daughter. The man fled to a second floor bathroom, allegedly with a weapon.

For the past five years, the USA TODAY Network has collected and analyzed police misconduct records from every corner of New York, made public in 2020 thanks to a change in state law. We weren't just ...

Failure to perform duty, such as neglecting reports or follow-up, is a prevalent issue in New York police departments. This misconduct can range from relatively minor unprofessional behavior to ...

A group of local Charleston attorneys submitted what they are calling a formal complaint and request for investigation into ...

The city of Milwaukee has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle two police misconduct cases, including one involving the son of a former state senator and another involving a Chicago family. COMING UP IN ...

Many New York police departments are obstructing access to police misconduct records despite a law change five years ago aimed at making these records accessible to the public. Tactics used to block ...

Former Ithaca Police Officer Derrick Moore faced disciplinary action an average of once a year during his 25-year career. Moore accumulated 23 disciplinary cases, including incidents of ...

Five years after a Minneapolis police officer brutally murdered a handcuffed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes, prompting worldwide protests against wrongful police killings ...