How Police, National Guard And Military Are Preparing For Election Day Tensions
Nov. 3 promises to be an Election Day unlike any other, and public safety entities say they're preparing for tensions and the possibility of violence. Poll workers are usually the first line of defense...
View ArticleWhat A Biden Administration May Do To Change Policing
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This summer, after the death of George Floyd, police use of force became one of the most urgent political issues in America. And...
View ArticleMovement To Limit Police Raids Looks Beyond 'No-Knock' Warrants
"No-knock" search warrants, which allow police to force their way into a home with the element of surprise, have attracted criticism since the height of the "war on drugs" in the 1980s and 90s. But it...
View ArticleD.C.'s Acting U.S. Attorney Calls Scope Of Capitol Investigation 'Unprecedented'
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, says "hundreds" of people may ultimately face charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, which interrupted...
View ArticleU.S. Capitol Mob Brings Questions, Fallout For Pro-Trump Police
In the aftermath of Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol, attention is turning to the nation's police: How many sympathized with what happened? The head of the Chicago police union minimized the...
View ArticlePolice Departments Search For Political Extremism In Ranks Following Capitol...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: We know a number of off-duty police took part in the Trump rally on January 6, which turned into a siege on the U.S. Capitol. A Houston officer...
View ArticleAfter The Capitol Attack, Does Police MAGA Sentiment Cross The Line?
Law enforcement agencies around the country are dealing with the fallout of off-duty officers who took part in the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally that turned into a violent siege of the U.S. Capitol. So far,...
View ArticleDid Record Gun Sales Cause A Spike In Gun Crime? Researchers Say It's...
The year of the pandemic was also the year of the gun. Shootings took off in almost every city, large and small. New York saw shootings double , and nationally, non-suicide gun deaths jumped about 25%,...
View ArticleFraudsters Still Claim Unemployment Relief, As Feds Pump Billions More Into...
This year's tax season comes with an extra source of stress: Will you find out that scammers claimed government money in your name? Unemployment benefits fraud was rampant in 2020 as the government...
View ArticleOn The 9th Day Of The Chauvin Trial, The Focus Was On The Science Of Breathing
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: In the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin today, the focus was on the science of breathing. Prosecutors say Chauvin...
View ArticleHow The Chauvin Trial Could Impact Policing
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: To talk about what this verdict might mean for law enforcement going forward, we are joined by NPR's Martin Kaste, who has been talking with...
View ArticleAmerican Cops Are Under Pressure To Rely Less On Guns And Take More Personal...
A couple of summers ago in Poulsbo, Wash., in a crowded park before a fireworks show, a man named Stonechild Chiefstick was bothering people, according to police. They got complaints about him seeming...
View ArticleAn Increase In Violent Crimes Is Complicating A Push To Defund The...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: More than a year after the killing of George Floyd sparked massive protests, policing in the U.S. is in a kind of limbo. The defund...
View ArticlePolicing In Minneapolis May Look Different After A Ballot Vote In November
Minneapolis voters will decide this November whether to end their city's police department, replacing it with a new "Department of Public Safety." The city council last week signed off on language for...
View ArticleAmericans Who Trained Afghan Pilots Now Fear For Pilots' Safety
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Americans who trained Afghan pilots and ground crews are now raising the alarm about their safety. Though some flew out of the country,...
View ArticleSirhan Sirhan Has Served 53 Years For Killing Robert F. Kennedy. Soon He May...
Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy during a Los Angeles presidential campaign stop in 1968, was recommended for parole Friday in San Diego. Two commissioners of...
View ArticleThe Man Convicted Of Killing Sen. Robert Kennedy Has Been Granted Parole
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A panel of the California Parole Board has recommended that the man convicted of killing Senator Robert Kennedy be released from prison....
View ArticleMore than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
Deaths involving police have been greatly undercounted in the United States, and African American people die in such encounters at 3.5 times the rate of whites, according to a new analysis by public...
View ArticleWisconsin Christmas parade case raises questions around bail
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The death toll in Waukesha, Wis., has risen to six following the mayhem caused by an SUV that plowed through a pre-Christmas parade on...
View ArticleStocks and oil prices drop as the world reacts to new coronavirus variant...
Updated November 26, 2021 at 2:44 PM ET Stock markets around the world tumbled on Friday after scientists in South Africa identified a new, fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus , with the Dow...
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