Memoirists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the origins of the war on crime to what comes after “broken windows.” By Sam Adler-Bell Sam Adler-Bell is a co-host of the podcast “Know ...

What the Founders rebelled against — armed government agents invading homes without cause — we are now being told to accept in the so-called name of law and order. Imagine it: it’s the middle of the ...

Small towns reshape their crisis response. Are social workers the future of public safety? Step inside a radical shift in public safety: social workers on the front lines of crisis response. Discover ...

McHarris is an assistant professor in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at ...

Editor's note: This op-ed is adapted from an article that first appeared in City Journal. More than 40 years have passed since the publication of one of the most important public-policy essays ever ...

Over the past month, a quiet but profound shift has begun rippling through U.S. law enforcement circles—and it’s being led not by policymakers, but by police chiefs themselves. In the wake of mass ...

Data like this seven-day crime map from Oakland, Calif., feeds AI-enabled predictive policing. (City of Oakland via CrimeMapping.com) The 2002 sci-fi thriller “Minority Report” depicted a dystopian ...

The killing of Sonya Massey at the hands of police should motivate federal policymakers to finally take action that will create real accountability and deliver lasting safety for people of color.

The case of Sonya Massey, the 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a law enforcement officer July 6 is the latest tragic example of why policing needs to be overhauled, ...

The killings come amid a rise in anti-Asian American hate crimes. After a gunman killed eight people -- the majority of whom were women of Asian descent -- at three spas in the Atlanta area, police ...