Through the passing and enforcement of laws, governments wield a powerful tool for keeping their communities safe. In this section, we highlight the myriad ways local governments engage with the legal system to move their communities forward and protect their citizens. Though by no means a perfect system – enforcement inequities continue to make the headlines – local leaders are striving to create laws that work fairly for all.
The report states there was also no captain on duty as a result of a staffing issue that left the Vierno Center eight captains short on the day the inmate died
Law enforcement agencies have seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, a more than tenfold increase in five years, the Justice Department said
All of the officers were found to have sincerely held religious beliefs that the arbiter found should have exempted them from the state’s vaccine mandate
Matthew Hamilton, the officer who was later fired and indicted for manslaughter in the death of Joseph Lopez, pursued "qualified immunity" from liability
The investigative tool can look collectively at an agency's stops, searches, or arrests; use of excessive force; possible discriminatory policing and more
The new bail schedules will correspond with pre-arraignment release terms based on the arrestee's risk of endangering the public and skipping arraignment