President Donald Trump calls him a “communist." His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he's ...

The 2020-era defund the police movement is echoing across the nation yet again as Democratic lawmakers and activists decry the Trump administration's efforts to snuff out crime in cities such as ...

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Some of the country’s largest police departments have lowered education requirements in recent years, sparking questions ...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville praised Virginia gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger’s messaging on crime, writing in an op-ed Tuesday that other Democrats should take a page out of ...

Once the emergency ends, Trump will lose his broad authority under the DC Home Rule Act to commandeer local police services for federal purposes. In recent weeks, the administration has ordered DC’s ...

The messages relied on an enigmatic, coded communication style used by the habitually online. By Richard Fausset Sheera Frenkel and Aric Toler When investigators in the killing of Charlie Kirk found a ...

A vocal group of citizens is pushing back on the Staunton Police Department’s use of Flock cameras as the city begins its second year of using the automated license-plate reader technology, known as ...

Lansing — Michigan House Republicans have accused state department leaders of committing fraud by having thousands of seemingly unfilled positions within their agencies, but budget experts and a batch ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — When city officials told police to ease up on traffic stops for equipment violations two years ago, the hope was fewer Black motorists would get pulled over for minor infractions in ...