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 ...

"Martini's was located in a predominantly white area of downtown Biloxi and the defendants did not want a large influx of ...

On a more personal level, African-Americans are far more likely than whites to say they have been subject to police discrimination because of their race. 54 percent of blacks - and 66 percent of ...

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.

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. As one ...

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

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 ...

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.