According to ICE's numbers, more than 70 percent of its detainees, on average, are living in privately run facilities, where unsafe and abusive conditions have been amply documented.
Women are the fastest-growing population in U.S. jails, yet few facilities are equipped to address the specific issues that come with their detention.
James O'Neill, taking over from William Bratton, plans to emphasize meaningless reforms that leave police powers and practices all but unchanged, critics say.
As "pattern and practice" investigations of police departments become increasingly frequent, skepticism is rising about what they can actually achieve.
Cleveland weathered the RNC, but the problems that led to the police killing of Tamir Rice remain unresolved.
Facebook is at the heart of a national conversation on race and policing. Is it too close to law enforcement?
“A Vision for Black Lives” is at once an exhaustive indictment of the nation’s systemic racism and a clear-eyed presentation of concrete solutions.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein sees little difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Some women in Philadelphia celebrated her achievement, but others were unaffected by her breaking of the glass ceiling.
The "mothers of the movement" took the stage at the Democratic convention where they read the names of black victims of police violence.
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