Vicksburg Police Department Streetball Program 2012

How to Honor Your Local Police Department

Police officers can always benefit from some encouragement from members of the community. They spend each day doing a great job guarding our lives and property, often at risk to themselves. Take time to let them know how much you...

How diverse is your police department? Search map for your community

7 On Your Side Investigates looked into the diversity of local police departments to see how representative they are, or aren't, of the communities they patrol.

Why we should be talking about the Police Department's stop-and-frisk data

For the first time ever, the city published data in a narrative format, in an effort to provide greater context around a data release. But narratives are tricky.

How security cameras can help police departments find suspects

What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

That's a recipe for mistrust, resentment -- and still more unsolved crimes.

How police departments are using these 11 questions to help victims of domestic violence

When most people think of domestic violence, they think in terms of physical assault that results in visible injuries, but there are actually many forms of abuse.

Police Departments Deal with Distracted Driving Among Their Own Officers

The term “distracted driving” typically conjures images of drivers splitting their attention between the road and a cell phone, which they might be using to talk, text, or use the internet. These types of distractions factor into a significant number of traffic accidents. Recent investigations have shown that law enforcement, in addition to enforcing distracted …

How funds from major fossil fuel corporations help control police departments

A recent investigation from the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its LittleSis database partners breaks down some of the…

What Police Departments and the Rest of Us Can Do to Overcome Implicit Bias, According to an Expert

Psychologist and author Jennifer Eberhardt explains how it differs from racism

‘Scoop and Run’ Can Save Lives. Why Don’t More Police Departments Try It?

Each city has its own first responder system, and scoop and run may not be feasible — or necessary — in some places.

How A Facial Recognition Tool Found Its Way Into Hundreds Of US Police Departments, Schools, And...

A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.

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If you live on a snow emergency street, you must remove your vehicle to provide access for emergency vehicles.<br>Please make every effort to utilize off street parking. Neighbors should cooperate ...

Due to significant snow accumulations, please remove all vehicles from roadway for snow removal....

PARKING AND SNOW REMOVAL INFORMATION;<br>Resident are asked to remove any vehicles from roadways to assist public works in keeping roads clear. Please use your driveway or a neighbors if ...

25 signs you’re a police officer's kid

If you’re a first-generation police officer, there are some things you should know about what it’s like to be your kid

What to do if you get pulled over by the police

You do not have to give them consent to search your vehicle.

States require more training time to become a barber than a police officer

It's not just barbering, either. Many trade jobs require more hours of training than policing.

When you get hacked, figuring out who to call for help can be a puzzle

Even the FBI and your local police can't agree on who you should contact first.