One of the Scottsdale Police Department’s slogans has been to “honor its past and imagine its future.” Within a few months, more than 43 years of the city’s law enforcement history will be donated ...

To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A look inside file cabinets left untouched for years uncovers history of the Minneapolis Police Department not known until now. "We have old rolls of film, some of them date back ...

The Minneapolis Police Department isn't going to be dissolved overnight, despite suggestions to the contrary, but in Minneapolis and nationwide, public pressure to overhaul American policing has hit a ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Jan. 26, 2015) -- A Mission and Installation Contracting Command information technology specialist's interest in an old news story about a riot at the ...

What Is ‘Defund the Police’? “Defund the police” is a phrase used to call for law enforcement reform in the United States.

A notorious gangster’s love life, Prohibition, bank heists and cutting-edge police work all play out in a new Dayton history book. Stephen C. Grismer, a retired Dayton police officer, has written “The ...

When the three-person Napa Police Department got its start in 1875, downtown Napa was mostly warehouses, churches, hotels and saloons, with commercial boats that headed up the Napa River with goods ...

SAN FRANCISCO – While the pride flag is bright and colorful, history shows us the ties between law enforcement and the LGBTQ community has been dark and full of tension. In 1969, the Stonewall Riots ...

A Denver Police Department SWAT vehicle. Photo by Victoria Carodine. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Like many departments across the country ...