Cincinnati's police department uses the community problem-oriented policing model. Milwaukee leaders continue to grapple with how to reduce crime. A Common Council committee began a series of public ...

to curb problems at their core to deter future crime. Police Chief Tom Osterholzer sat down at the MLive-Flint Journal offices Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 30, for a live chat about what the philosophy ...

If people think officers only need to arrest and jail offenders to solve all of a community's problems, they will be "doomed to failure," a policing expert said Monday. "We want to encourage the ...

Danger lurks everywhere in our world, as we see from the epidemic of gun violence. It’s impossible for the police to protect us from every madman with an assault rifle, as the recent tragic events in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland police officials are struggling to roll out a culture-changing philosophy that would affect the way officers deal with neighborhood problems, a new report says. The ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Community Oriented Policing (COP) has been a rapidly growing trend in law enforcement for the past several years. This method of law enforcement -- vastly different from typical incident-oriented ...

Policing in America is broken. Headlines remind us daily of the situation — excessive use of force, citizen deaths, the escalation of interactions into deadly confrontations, and more. The tragedy of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A shooting in a busy shopping center is the sort of thing that’ll get your attention. After one at 12th and Ajo KGUN 9 On Your Side heard from a frustrated business owner who ...

As many people in the U.S. feel outraged about the killings of Black Americans by local police, protesters across the country are calling for reforms of our law enforcement systems. Proposals for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We have a good police force in Colorado Springs, at least most of the time. But it could get better and that is not just an idle wish. To make an immediate point, we cannot have any more deaths of ...