Cooperation with federal immigration authorities isn’t new. But it has been supercharged since 2025.

Police departments should harness the tech to improve accountability and training.

Using machine learning and natural language processing, researchers reviewed thousands of recorded encounters to determine whether officers followed legal standards for stops and detentions.

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Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...

Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

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The University of Florida Presidential Search Committee has unanimously and enthusiastically recommended Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., to be considered by its Board of Trustees as the sole finalist to become t...

Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics between January 2015 and December 2024, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.

Trump's attacks on DEI at University of Michigan is part of a larger deployment of misinformation and government threats to weaken universities.

The University of Michigan Alumni Association has ended the LEAD Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship that worked to improve enrollment for minority students.

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Examining body camera videos at scale reveals racial differences in how police treat drivers during traffic stops—and what corrective programs really work

The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that – relationships. And those relations generally start with […]

AI can improve police "professionalism" by monitoring officers' body camera footage, according to the first independent study on the topic. Police aren’t so sure the benefits are worth the cost.

Abstract. Can training police officers on how to best interact with the public actually improve their interactions with community members? This has been a