The Cato Institute gathers reports of credible allegations of police misconduct. The website includes annual aggregate statistical reports that examine long-term statistical information gathered by the NPMRP with additional detailed analysis including localized misconduct ranking information and statistical trending data. The annual aggregate reports include detailed per-capita misconduct rates and comparisons between law enforcement agencies for analysis as well.

The National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a membership organization of plaintiffs’ attorneys who work on police misconduct cases. The website is regularly updated with numerous articles written by attorneys in the field of police accountability.

A provocative essay about policing, with suggestions for further reading.

Review of indictment with examination of racial profiling and killing by police officers.

"It’s not just Ferguson—here’s how the system protects police."

A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.

A discussion of how post-non-indictment rebellion is not "looting" or a "riot."

There are so many cops who look at the killing of Eric Garner or Mike Brown and say race didn't play a factor. And there are tons of black people who say that's insane. There's a division between people who distrust the police — even fear them — and people who see cops as a force for good. Stories of people living on both sides of that divide, and people trying to bridge it.

Our second hour of stories about policing and race. We hear about one city where relations between police and black residents went terribly, and another city where they seem to be improving remarkably. And one of our producers asks: Why aren't police chiefs talking about race after incidents where unarmed black men are wrongly killed by officers?

A judge has ap­proved the re­lease of some de­tails about the grand jury pro­ceed­ings in the Eric Garner death case. Those de­tails are on the last page of this doc­u­ment.

Here are documents and evidence presented to the grand jury in Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown. The documents were released by the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch. Note: Some of the documents contain graphic language.

After data showed Kalamazoo's police racially profiled residents, the department is trying to right a decades-old wrong