As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

Police body cams were supposed to change everything in Chicago. But a lot of them were rarely turned on.

Some cops give their friends and family union-issued “courtesy cards” to help get them out of minor infractions. The cards embody everything wrong with modern policing.

What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?

The wrong way to fight the opioid crisis.

Why don’t police catch serial rapists?

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?

How order collapsed in an American city.

Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.

A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.

Inside one of America’s most corrupt police squads.

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.

An investigation into the deadly use of Tasers by police.

Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”

The fake cops of Santa Monica.

Why domestic violence is even worse if the abuser is a cop.

A young mother and child, secluded in an apartment, face dangerous outside forces.

In an excerpt from the author's debut novel, LAPD officers search an affluent couple's home.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.