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A brief city effort to rein in the illegal parking was limited to one tiny area before it was abandoned.

A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there's no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.

A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there's no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.

A NY police officer admitted to a years-long string of misconduct in a four-hour interview. None of his former jobs knew about his checkered past.

The NYPD is issuing more traffic-related summonses citywide ... with one glaring exception.

Mayor Mamdani didn't overrule NYPD's shutdown of the massive watch parties outside Madison Square Garden, but others will happen.

Footage published by New York Focus sparked a debate over deputies’ practice of calling Border Patrol on Spanish-speaking drivers.

Troopers based in the city routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assaul...

Absolute placard corrupts absolutely, but a fake placard is even worse!

Oswego County sheriff’s deputies held drivers for up to 45 minutes as they waited for immigration agents, potentially breaking the law.

The Quizlet flashcards, which WIRED found through basic Google searches, seem to include sensitive information about gate security at Customs and Border Protection locations.

Carroll’s cooperation agreement and participation means its four full-time police officers are committed to assisting ICE in federal immigration enforcement. They did just that in December when they d...

Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not alo...

Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not alo...

Over a decade marked by a pandemic and nationwide cuts to health care funding, Marschall S. Runge led Michigan Medicine in a historic triple-leadership position. He served as executive vice president ...

New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, theyremained on the job, an investigation found.

In the mid-1980s, a North Carolina School of the Arts student took a brave step that affected the rest of her high school career: she met with Robert Hickok, the school’s dean, to report that Stephen ...

Most officers suspected of driving under the influence received suspensions ranging from three to 16 days, records the Tulsa police union tried to keep secret show.

Officers in New York State crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded…

New court filings offer the fullest picture yet of the scope of the alleged misconduct at the New York Philharmonic.

The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.

On a little-known web page called War Diary, the military spokesperson provides information on its activities in five languages, but reports details of West Bank operations in Hebrew only

FBI inquiry into Heidi Poscher’s alleged attempt to influence a former City Councilmember. Poscher has since become a large donor in Ann Arbor politics.

The state's prison agency has censored lawsuits, emails, and Hell Gate stories during the three-week-long wildcat strike.

When you recognize a pattern of where to find information on documents over and over again, DocumentCloud’s Regex Extractor Add-On can help you pull it out and turn it into data. After that, the fun b...

Our investigation identified dozens of cases in which a wrongful conviction unit denied someone's application, only for a judge to later exonerate them.

With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.

Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.

Former SMTD Voice Department Chair Scott Piper violated UMich sexual harassment policy, ECRT report finds.