A familiar face will take the helm of the New Rochelle Police Department following the announced retirement of Commissioner ...

Neil Reynolds, a 31-year veteran of the New Rochelle Police Department, has been appointed city police commissioner, the ...

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 ...

Seventy percent of African Americans in the poll said the police unfairly target minorities and 76 percent that it was understandable that some teenage boys and young men are wary of police officers.

In 1995 and again in 2014, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal asked questions that reveal the deep suspicion among African Americans about the police. Only 32% of blacks in 1995 and 28% in 2014 ...

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 ...

Police shooting deaths of African Americans in Chicago and nationally are further putting black officers on the defensive — forced to answer for the actions of fellow law enforcement officers.

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.

Sixty-one percent of African-American respondents indicated that they want police to spend the same amount of time in their neighborhoods, nearly in line with the 67-percent figure for all surveyed.

Yet 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.