In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law enforcement with a holding in Graham v Connor (Graham), that changed the manner in which courts evaluated use of force claims, changing from a subjective due ...

Recruits from different law enforcement agencies are the region with one thing in common. They’re completing basic academy at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. A total of 70 hours is ...

A Supreme Court precedent still dominates the legal approach to the use of force, while a patchwork of state and city laws governs how the police should act. By Adeel Hassan A federal civil rights ...

Four years ago, all eight elected Harris County constables gathered before residents and TV cameras to announce that they had all agreed to implement a single, unified use-of-force policy. The ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Police are nearly seven times more likely to use force on Black suspects than they are on White and Hispanic suspects, according to data obtained by CBS 8. From 2018 through 2022 ...

Shortly after midnight on Aug. 29, 2022, Portland police Officer Nicholas Wambold responded to reports of an alleged assault outside a bar in southeast Portland. Witnesses described a man who had been ...

Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...

The Authorization for Use of Military Force is a joint resolution by Congress that gives the U.S. president the authority to leverage military force in a conflict. Such authorizations carry ...

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Most cops don’t want to kill people, and most officers go their entire careers without firing their gun, but every officer knows he or she may someday have to make that choice. Police have the ...

The following questions and answers address the international legal framework applicable to violence and the use of force in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch in October 2023 published a ...