JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has a track record of conducting shoddy police work and using excessive force, including the overly eager use of police dogs, against civilians ...

In a case making it easier to challenge police unreasonable force in court, the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously permitted the mother of a Houston man killed in a 2016 traffic stop to continue an ...

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating more than 80 complaints of officer misconduct during last month’s protests, with more than half of the cases involving claims of excessive force. The ...

A federal judge has determined an excessive-force claim by a teenager against several Warren police officers during an arrest can continue while the rest of the case was dismissed. U.S. District Judge ...

Seven western Tennessee law enforcement officers have been charged with official misconduct and other charges dating back to an October 2024 arrest where investigators say the officers used excessive ...

The Evanston City Council agreed to settle a 2023 lawsuit brought by a man who accused police department officers of using excessive force. After the case worked its way through federal courts for two ...

Police use-of-force incidents across New York leaped nearly 30% from 2017 to 2022, according to Mapping Police Violence data. And injuries tied to police use of force in New York City alone spiked ...

(Johannesburg) – Angolan police used excessive force and carried out arbitrary arrests while dispersing peaceful protesters in Luanda, the capital, on July 12, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.

The agency has reviewed nearly 3 dozen complaints about use of force in the past decade. None were found to be excessive. The Maine State Police reviewed 33 excessive force complaints over the past ...