Fourth Amendment law provides that police use of force during an arrest, stop or other seizure must be reasonable. Despite the seemingly straightforward nature of the reasonableness standard, §1983 ...

Springfield police used force 158 times in 2024 — a slight increase from the previous year and enough to mean officers used force in nearly 1 out of every 25 arrests, according to a new report ...

Shortly after midnight on Aug. 29, 2022, Portland police Officer Nicholas Wambold responded to reports of an alleged assault outside a bar in southeast Portland. Witnesses described a man who had been ...

The following questions and answers address the international legal framework applicable to violence and the use of force in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch in October 2023 published a ...