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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Police Accountability Board (PAB) has released its first set of investigative reports since its inception, detailing alleged officer misconduct in nearly two dozen ...

The Police Accountability Board has rebuffed the advice of the city’s top lawyer and publicly released reports detailing its investigations into police misconduct for the first time. The reports come ...

The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to make it somewhat easier for individuals to try to hold police officers accountable for using deadly force, in a case involving the fatal shooting of an ...

The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said ...

The killing of George Floyd and other highly publicized instances of police violence created a unique opportunity for meaningful police reform in 2020. Connecticut missed the mark. The Police ...

In 2025, there were 51 complaints filed against county and municipal police officers in Carroll County — more than doubling the number from the year prior. In 2024, 20 complaints were filed. William ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. On Oct. 29, 1984, a ...

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The Portland City Council voted down a controversial budget amendment Tuesday that would have taken $10 million from the new Office of Community Police Accountability to partly restore cuts to the ...