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Kobi Dennis (pictured at right) founded and runs the Project: Night Vision program for city youths and works in partnerships with the Providence police and the state police. Kibi asserts two plainclothes officers came upon his son and 2 friends, jumped from an...

At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade, an investigation by USA TODAY Network found. Officers have beaten members of the public, planted evidence and used their badges to...

the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) provided additional data and clarified information they provided to the NYCLU in July 2020. The updated database now includes information on the race or ethnicity of the impacted person and officer, incident location,...

Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter (BLM), international social movement, formed in the United States in 2013, dedicated to fighting racism and anti-Black violence, especially in the form of police brutality. The name Black Lives Matter signals condemnation of the...

There was no place to hide, no place to truly be safe. Across the U.S., black Americans lived in fear of law enforcement officials armed with weapons who monitored their every behavior, attacked them on the street and in their homes, and killed them for the...

What if the people storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 had been Black? Newsrooms around the U.S. posed that question as largely white pro-Trump rioters and white supremacists, incited by the president himself, stormed the Capitol, waving Confederate flags and Trump...

State lawmakers say a Hearst Connecticut Media Group investigation into state police misconduct underscores the importance of major legislative reforms they approved in 2020 and raises questions about if more should be done to bring additional accountability to...

Police officers across the region have been caught engaging in a variety of misdeeds in recent years — ranging from being late for duty to improper use of force to breaking into cars. But superiors rarely handed down the most serious forms of punishment, a Hearst...

Five members of the Vermont State Police resigned amid probes into allegations of misconduct and another was terminated, according to the latest semiannual state report on complaints leading to internal investigations. Three of the resignations from July 1, 2021,...

The Vermont Senate will debate a bill next year to eliminate a widely used legal defense that shields police from civil lawsuits over their misconduct.Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Sears (D-Bennington) announced the push to end so-called “qualified immunity”...