Jul. 20—Respect and composure can help ease the strain of a police stop, Muskogee Police Officers told an audience Tuesday night. "The first words spoken dictate how that encounter will turn out," ...

Aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk are linked to worse newborn health outcomes in neighborhoods where such ...

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The Detroit Police Department is hosting a community meeting to address concerns about traffic stops and profiling, aiming to improve perceptions and build trust with residents. The event will include ...

Harker Heights Police Chief Sonja Clay presented the City Council with the Police Department’s annual racial profiling report Tuesday, and several figures stood out.

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In Lake Worth Beach last September, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper pulled over Jose Hernandez Alvarez and detained him after federal immigration authorities said he lacked legal status to be in the ...

More than a decade ago, California passed a law aimed at curbing racial and identity-based profiling by police. The Racial and Identity Profiling Act, or RIPA, requires law enforcement agencies to ...

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The enforcement tactic of using traffic violations to look for more serious crimes was already limited, some activists want ...