law enforcement

Three members of a North Carolina police department have been fired after a department audit of a video recording captured one of the officers saying a civil war was necessary to wipe Black people

Greensboro's city council is debating potential changes to law enforcement policy in the wake of widespread racial justice protests. 

Many law enforcement agencies in suburban Minneapolis and St. Paul that policed protests are recent entrants to a decades-old Pentagon program of transferring military gear to cops.

A proposal to allot $1 million from Winston-Salem's police budget to anti-poverty initiatives has collapsed, despite calls from activists to defund the department. 

Earlier this week, police gathered in front of precincts across France and threw down their handcuffs in a symbolic gesture.

Members of Winston-Salem's City Council discussed shifting funding away from the police department at a meeting Monday.