Police officers should be held to high standards and punished where they fall short. But theirs is an immensely stressful, challenging, and emotionally draining job. And police officers do far more ...

Police officers hold extraordinary powers. The public are entitled to expect integrity, restraint, fairness and decency. But ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will stop promoting “Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect” on the exterior of its patrol cars, dropping the three-word motto decades after it was adopted ...

Those of us who are professionals in the criminal justice system but who are not sworn law enforcement officers interact with cops frequently and some of us do so on a daily basis. Cops become not ...

Criminal prosecutions against police for acts of force in the line of duty are rarely successful. Two years ago this month, 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from a neck and spinal injury he sustained ...

Lincolnwood village president Barry Bass has touted the fact that crime has gone down in the village in the past year. After Police Chief Jason “Jay” Parrott was appointed chief last year, crime in ...

A North Hollywood elementary school planned Pride Month assembly brought out protestors from two dissenting sides Friday morning, and as the hours passed, tensions rose to a physical altercation. The ...