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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Police Accountability Board (PAB) has released its first set of investigative reports since its inception, detailing alleged officer misconduct in nearly two dozen ...

For a second year in a row, Washington police accountability advocates have seen their priorities fall flat in Olympia. They entered this year’s session wanting to grant the attorney general stronger ...

The Police Accountability Board has rebuffed the advice of the city’s top lawyer and publicly released reports detailing its investigations into police misconduct for the first time. The reports come ...

Members of Baltimore’s police oversight body say the city should create an independent office for police accountability and audit how officials have spent city dollars budgeted for those efforts, as ...

The nationwide database has tracked police misconduct since 2023, when it was put into place by President Joe Biden. The Trump administration’s Justice Department has deleted the National Law ...

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In 2025, there were 51 complaints filed against county and municipal police officers in Carroll County — more than doubling the number from the year prior. In 2024, 20 complaints were filed. William ...

The killing of George Floyd and other highly publicized instances of police violence created a unique opportunity for meaningful police reform in 2020. Connecticut missed the mark. The Police ...

The Portland City Council voted down a controversial budget amendment Tuesday that would have taken $10 million from the new Office of Community Police Accountability to partly restore cuts to the ...

The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said ...