Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kyle Mazza/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom In recent years, American public opinion about police has swung wildly from strong support for law ...

Police departments also began to embrace counterterrorism training, recruit military veterans, and adopt “warrior” mentalities that prioritized combat readiness over community connection. “It ...

The militarization of police - is it real, or a made up term by cop haters in an effort to discredit the service? Why do officers now look more like special forces than traditional cops? Tactical ...

Officers with assault rifles, backed by a huge armored grenade launcher, square up to a crowd furiously denouncing the killing of a young black neighbor. It is a scene which could have been taken from ...

When US police flooded the streets around the country to confront protesters two weeks ago, for many it appeared like the army had deployed, with camouflage uniforms and combat gear, heavily armored ...

A decade ago, an encouraging bipartisan consensus was emerging for the need to reform public-safety policies in a way that improved crime-fighting and cost-efficiency and assured that policing better ...

Police departments that get more equipment from the military kill more civilians than departments that get less military gear. That’s the finding from research on a federal program that has operated ...

We have reached an important crossroads in American policing. In the aftermath of the University of California, Davis, pepper spray debacle, people are finally tuning in to the militarization of the ...