According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, 8.7% of African Americans initiate contacts with the police annually, vs. 11.9% of whites. By contrast, the police initiate contact with ...

Their work builds on a considerable collection of surveys that show African Americans have long felt that they are treated differently from whites by the police. In the February 2015 issue of AEI ...

Their work builds on a considerable collection of surveys that show African Americans have long felt that they are treated differently from whites by the police. In the February 2015 issue of AEI ...

And they’re preoccupied with a skyrocketing shooting and homicide rate. Police shooting deaths of African Americans in Chicago and nationally are further putting black officers on the defensive ...

While four in five whites say their local police make them feel mostly safe, that drops to 52 percent among blacks. Forty-three percent of African Americans say the local police make them feel ...

But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black ...

Nearly half (46 percent) of African Americans say they have "very little" confidence in the police to treat blacks and whites equally, according to a new USA Today/Pew Research Center poll.

A majority of African Americans want the police presence in their neighborhoods to stay the same, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday — even though less than one-in-five say they’re ...

Charles Epp and Steven Maynard-Moody are professors at Kansas University’s School of Public Affairs and Administration. They are the co-authors, with Donald Haider-Markel, of “Pulled Over: How ...

Because the images of police violence are so pervasive, they inflict a unique harm on viewers, particularly African Americans, who see themselves and those they love in these fatal encounters.