The San Diego police oversight agency on Wednesday held a community hearing on pretext stops, as the department looks to rebuild trust while contending with a racial disparity in who gets stopped.

An enormous amount of police time and resources go into traffic patrol, in which officers pull over motorists for infractions as minor as a single nonfunctioning taillight. Traffic stops have become ...

Duane Bennett was early in his legal career in 1985, working as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County, when he was pulled over and held at gunpoint by Los Angeles police officers. Bennett, ...

Sometimes you have to call a pretext a pretext. That’s what Title 42 always was, a COVID-19 pandemic-related excuse to get rid of the problem of asylum seekers at our southern border. The legalese was ...