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Feature June 23, 2021
Violent Encounters With Police Send Thousands of People to the ER Every Year
That's probably an undercount. But data from San Jose offers a glimpse of what the national scale of police violence might be.
By Simone Weichselbaum, Lisa Riordan Seville, Emily Siegel, Joseph Neff and Abbie VanSickle
CLEVELAND, OHIO DECEMBER 4, 2014:..Kiara Jacobs, 8, hugs her brother Quentin Stamen, 13, at a makeshift memorial site dedicated to Tamir Rice at Cudell Coms Park, the park where the 12 year-old boy was shot to death by police, on Thursday, December 4, 2014. The memorial is made up of toys, a few pictures and letters and drawings from friends.
News March 4, 2021
Six Years After Tamir Rice, Cleveland Makes New Rules About Policing Kids
Critics say a new policy for police encounters with children doesn’t go far enough.
By Abbie VanSickle and Jamiles Lartey
People march in the street to protest the death of Elijah McClain on July 25, 2020 in Aurora, Colorado. On August 24, 2019 McClain was walking home when he was forcibly detained by three Aurora police officers and was injected with ketamine after officers requested assistance from the Aurora Fire Rescue. McClain suffered a heart attack on the way to the hospital that night and died six days later.
News December 18, 2020
Colorado Tries New Way To Punish Rogue Cops
Individual officers can’t claim ‘qualified immunity’ in excessive force cases, but may not end up paying damages out of their own pockets.
By Cary Aspinwall and Simone Weichselbaum
The System October 23, 2020
The Future of Policing
What do advocates mean when they call for “defunding,” “abolishing” or “reimagining” the police?
by Jamiles Lartey and Annaliese Griffin
Feature July 22, 2020
One Roadblock to Police Reform: Veteran Officers Who Train Recruits
Field trainers "are part of the old guard of the department. They teach the old way of doing things."
By Simone Weichselbaum
A demonstrator was arrested during a protest against police brutality in May in New York.
News June 26, 2020
What Are Cops Really Thinking When Routine Arrests Turn Violent?
“You have to use a lot of force, or you are going to die.”
By Simone Weichselbaum and Jamiles Lartey
News June 18, 2020
Which States Are Taking on Police Reform After George Floyd?
Lawmakers in 16 states have introduced bills to improve police oversight and accountability.
By Weihua Li and Humera Lodhi
Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, expressed his support for President Donald Trump at a rally in Minneapolis in 2019.
Analysis June 10, 2020
A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses
Even in the 15 largest departments where the majority of officers are people of color, only one union leader is black, our analysis shows.
By Eli Hager and Weihua Li
A man held a flag with a thin blue line at a vigil for five police officers killed in Dallas in 2016.
News June 8, 2020
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy.
By Maurice Chammah and Cary Aspinwall
Law enforcement officers amassed along Lake Street in Minneapolis as fires burned during a night of unrest and protests over the death of George Floyd.
News June 3, 2020
From Michael Brown to George Floyd: What We’ve Learned About Policing
Stories from The Marshall Project’s archives that shine a light on police, violence and racial inequality in America
By Weihua Li
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