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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reynolds joined the department in 1994 as a patrol officer and will be sworn in within a few weeks. Explosions heard after ...

In 1996, when relations between African-Americans and the police seemed broken and growing worse, the Baker Institute for Public Policy did what think tanks do: It convened a summit to discuss the ...

Attracting more African American men and women to join the ranks of law enforcement agencies is the focus of a series of recruitment events organized by the Albuquerque Police Department ...

After the death of George Floyd, U.S. institutions made a lot of promises to change, from the way Black people were treated by police to ... are headed up by African-Americans, and while entities ...

The Historic Firehouse #11 on Vine St. was vandalized last Thursday. Now more than ever, the media program located in the building is determined to preserve its history ...