Journalist Pamela Colloff has written an engrossing and damning book on how the case of the 1985 killing of 14-year-old ...

York County’s first new recruits in more than a decade are about to begin 18 weeks of intensive police academy training.

In her new book “Crime Fictions,” Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve analyzes the factors that ...

Human Rights Watch (headquartered in New York City; founded in 1978) is an international human rights organization that ...

California has been the target of more civil rights actions than any other state. The civil rights division is led by ...

Justice Todd Eddins accused the Roberts Court of reviving discredited 1857 and 1896 rulings while dismantling constitutional ...

M.T. Berry, Oklahoma City's first Black police chief and a dedicated public servant for 49 years, has died at 75.

Some provisions of the Constitution enjoy far more attention than others. At the Supreme Court, for example, it is a rare term that doesn’t have a case involving the First, Second, or Fourth ...

It is more important than ever for states to adopt evidence-based standards to ensure that only credible and vetted ...

Two men were arrested and facing dozens of criminal charges in connection with an alleged $1.2 million cheque fraud operation ...

Nearly five months after the New Mexico Attorney General asked the U.S. Department of Justice for unredacted files tied to ...

The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable ...