This article dicusses developments in excessive police force law, focusing on the Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Barnes v.

Black and Middle Eastern people in Hamilton continue to be overrepresented in use-of-force incidents recorded by the city's ...

Use of force by police officers in the City of Bakersfield went down in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to the ...

Welcoming an evolved Graham standard, and the three factors police and law enforcement officers can use to guide them during use-of-force incidents. In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law ...

While the law that was first passed in 2019 and updated in 2020 required all police departments to submit use of force reports to the UConn agency, there were nine departments that submitted none ...

WASHINGTON — Out of all use of force incidents by police in 2023, a DC government study found that 94% of all the people involved in these incidents were Black, according to a report released on ...

Is use of force standardized across all police forces? No, there are no national standards. There are about 18,000 police departments in the country, 80 percent of which have 50 officers or fewer ...

Ongoing series about the Fairfax County Police Department and its policies and history on use of deadly force. The Fairfax County Police Department General Order 540, Use of Force is scheduled for ...

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police's Civilian Use of Force Board oversees potential police misconduct in every instance where an officer uses force — many instances being officer-involved ...

Police use-of-force incidents across New York leaped nearly 30% from 2017 to 2022, according to Mapping Police Violence data. And injuries tied to police use of force in New York City alone spiked ...

A U.S. Justice Department investigation into the Memphis Police Department after the beating death of Tyre Nichols found a pattern of unlawful use of excessive force and discrimination against the ...

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police's Civilian Use of Force Board oversees potential police misconduct in every instance where an officer uses force — many instances being officer-involved shootings.