Recent police killings highlight inconsistencies between police reports and the facts. One former lieutenant told Insider they are trained to mislead.

Rob heard a loud knock at his door late one night in August 2014. His landlord had been calling him about maintenance issues in his Columbus, Ohio, apartment, but that night she came with a male ...

The statute of limitations on domestic violence depends on the nature of the abuse, the state it happened in, and other factors. Technically, you can file a police report at any time. But there may be ...

A scathing new report by California's Auditor of five large police departments across the state found evidence of officer bias against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, as well as ...

In his nine years at the Fort Collins, Colorado, police department, Officer Scott Brittingham says he has taken a lot of pride in the process of writing reports after each call for service. But when ...

Robert Legare is a CBS News multiplatform reporter and producer covering the Justice Department, federal courts and investigations. He was previously an associate producer for the "CBS Evening News ...

The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of ...

The Department of Justice today released a report of its investigation into claims of civil rights abuses by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, where Darren Wilson, a white officer, shot and ...

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2014 shooting death of a black teenager, approaches the bench during a hearing in his case at the Leighton ...

In April 1995, two sisters in their late teens reported to police that a family member had molested them as young children during sleepovers at his house in the 1980s. The man they accused was a Mesa ...

The number of people killed by police officers rose slightly in 2024, the smallest increase recorded in years, according to a report released Tuesday by Mapping Police Violence. Police killed more ...

Rochester police had handcuffed a 9-year-old Black girl and put her in the back of a police car last month when an officer made a striking statement: “You’re acting like a child.” “I am a child,” the ...