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An illustration shows 6 boxes, containing: 1) hands holding a taser, 2) an armored police vehicle, 3) a surveillance camera, 4) three people at a shooting range, 5) the exterior of a prison, and 6) a police officer wearing a vest.
Analysis September 7, 2022
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief
President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts.
By Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li and Susie Cagle
Police officers in Denver, Colo., in March 2021. From 2019 to 2020, the number of people working at local police departments and sheriffs’ offices decreased by less than 1%, according to monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
News September 1, 2021
Police Say Demoralized Officers Are Quitting In Droves. Labor Data Says No.
While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.
By Weihua Li and Ilica Mahajan
St. Louis County police make an arrest Dec. 15, 2015 in Jennings, Mo.
Commentary February 9, 2016
Does Predictive Policing Lead to More Police in Black Communities? Readers React
What you had to say about our latest story on predictive policing.
By Maurice Chammah
Feature February 3, 2016
Policing the Future
In the aftermath of Michael Brown's death, St. Louis cops embrace crime-predicting software.
By Maurice Chammah, with additional reporting by Mark Hansen
News February 10, 2015
Our Body-Cams, Ourselves
Now that police are always on, who gets to watch?
By Clare Sestanovich
Graphics December 5, 2014
A Department of Defense Gift Guide 2014
Just pay shipping and handling.
By Tom Meagher, Andy Rossback and Lisa Iaboni
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