police reform

State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law.

More and more people are dying during high-speed police chases. Officers, suspects and people who weren’t involved in the chase aren't always protected from grave harm.

Experts say tracking police chases fosters transparency and can indicate whether certain pursuit policies are effective. So why don’t more states do it?

The four officers were given a written reprimand and sensitivity training, but members of the police oversight board requested a look into whether harsher punishment was appropriate.

Officers were caught on body camera mocking Dynell Lane when he urinated himself after officers denied him access to a restroom at a Deep Ellum pizzeria in June 2023.

Police killings like that of Tyre Nichols and high maternal mortality rates for Black women have informed some of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus' biggest concerns.

Dallas Police and other city officials made statements condemning the violence in the released footage, in which Nichols, 29, was beaten by Memphis police officers. He died three days later.

Video showing five Memphis officers beating a Black man has been made public. The release comes one day after the officers were charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols. The footage shows the Black officers savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes in an assault that the Nichols family’s legal team likened to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Phillip Goff of the Center for Policing Equity about how the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis speaks to larger issues with police department culture and diversity.

Fort Worth’s police oversight office marked the end of its second year with a report detailing its successes and the progress left to make. While the police department has completed many of the office’s recommendations, others remain “in progress” after months or years of work.

More than 800 Dallas police officers have completed a new training that aims to teach them how to best intervene if they see potential misconduct by another officer.

Negotiators on Capitol Hill continue to work on a police overhaul bill named after Floyd, which President Biden had hoped to sign by now.