In the 19th-century, society began to grapple with an emerging problem: How do you prove people are...
Law Enforcement
Follow the institutions and people charged with maintaining order across history, from local watch systems and constables to professional police forces. These histories examine how enforcement developed alongside state authority while remaining contested by the communities it policed.
The Militia of Great Britain were the principal military reserve forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain....
Mayors are facing a phenomenon – officers slowing their work in the wake of high-profile episodes of...
The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has...
Academic conversations around defunding or abolishing the police have been around for decades, but now, some politicians...
The early colonists of America considered the militia an important social institution, necessary to provide defense and...
Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act to prevent exactly this type of action. It doesn’t take a...
Legal estrangement speaks to detachment and eventual alienation from the law’s enforcers. Originally published by the Yale...
This guide seeks to provide information useful for a long-term strategy of police reform. Originally published by...
What will it take to change a brutal and militaristic style of policing in America? Political will....
It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a centralized municipal police department first emerged...
Giving police military gear doesn’t reduce crime or keep officers safer – but it does hurt citizens’...
We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta...
Hoover became increasingly worried about communist threats against the United States – and it morphed into all-encompassing...
We can’t reform police until we reckon with their history of enforcing white supremacy. In November 2006,...
When a grassroots campaign called “Stop Killer Cops!” exposed an active White supremacist group inside the Richmond...
It has “a chilling effect against those exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and express their views.”...
Police across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national...
The ancient Egyptians believed that, if one adhered to ma’at, one would live a harmonious existence. Introduction...
The nation’s Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys with law enforcement and...
America’s racial past is hardly past but rather powerfully connects past and present. Even amid the continuing...
Police interaction with black people can be much more insidious than these headline-grabbing moments we’re seeing today....
“It really comes down to change in the culture.” By Christianna Silva and Scott Simon With nationwide...
It’s been difficult, if not impossible, to end the career of the worst cops who commit many...
A bill before the New York City Council would help protect the public’s rights by ensuring the...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent offenders, bystanders, and...
North Penn Tactical Response Team of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, practicing Cellular Team Tactics / Photo by Tim...
Getty Images Survey data shows a public that is conflicted about how law enforcement adopts new technologies...
A police box is set to go up for auction / Photo by Rightmove In attempting to...