President Obama is calling for a sustained national conversation about what he calls "simmering distrust" between police and minority communities. We…

Grand Jury decisions in Ferguson Missouri and New York City not to indict white officers for killing unarmed black men has provoked a kind of national…

Traffic stops account for the most common encounters citizens have with local law enforcement. Most stops are routine. Others can provoke considerable…

Over the past four decades, courts and legislatures have given increasingly broad powers to the police. According to constitutional law experts, there's…

In the mostly minority Ferguson, Missouri neighborhood where Michael Brown lived, residents have taken what they call a pro-active approach to monitoring…