NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barry Friedman, the director of New York University's Policing Project, about the role of the police in modern society. What are police really for in this country?

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Police scanner apps allow you to listen to radio feeds, whether you're a hobbyist interested in police communications or want to learn about local police and crime in your neighborhood. Zeroing in on ...

Your local police department may know more about you than you think. Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools — including publicly ...

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 ...

What Is "Defund the Police"? “Defund the police” is a phrase used to call for law enforcement reform in the United States. Ideas about defunding the police range from replacing police forces with ...

Police officers routinely deal with people behaving at their worst. Frequent encounters with verbally abusive and sometimes physically combative citizens also come with the badge. Despite these ...