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. As one ...

Ernest Spradley, who is African American, says he chuckled when a suburban white cop pulled him over and told him he was going 95 mph down a main drag.

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

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.

When African Americans and Latinos are stopped and questioned by police, they are no more likely to be killed or seriously injured than are white people drawn into similar encounters with the ...

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

African Americans resent not so much the police but a particular type of police activity. They, like whites, accept police stops made for a clear violation and not as a pretext to question and search.

Unarmed African-American men and boys are an astounding 700% more likely to be shot and killed by police than unarmed white men. In fact, unarmed black men and boys are killed at almost the same ...

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.

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, in ...