The best mental-health responders in the world can help only if emergency dispatchers know when to deploy them.
Are provisions meant to keep firearms off the streets too unjust to enforce?
America’s traffic laws hurt the poor, and don’t really deter anyone. But what if traffic fines scaled with income?
Representative Mary Gay Scanlon speaks about having her car stolen from her at gunpoint.
As a long decline in murder rates reverses, proponents of draconian law enforcement shouldn’t be allowed to monopolize the discussion.
Out-of-line police departments are subject to investigations and court orders. Why not apply those same tools to attorneys who disregard defendants’ rights?
Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.
Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real?
The most surprising aspect of the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is not the verdict, but the fact that it happened at all.
Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit
Even a guilty verdict would not have answered the questions the case had come to symbolize.
It’s time Henry Montgomery came home.
In the pursuit of killing its own citizens, this country has created a bestial regime.
To improve its police force, New Zealand used humor to attract a whole different kind of cop.
Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.
After decades of gains, departments face a wave of retirements.
As violent crime rose in 2020, property crime continued a years-long decline.
What the data can’t tell us is why.
One year after widespread protests, state reforms have brought accountability to policing, if not an end to brutality.
In an interview, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin discusses fatherhood, who deserves to be punished, his relationship with the police, and more.