Police Shootings & Violence

It took more than a year for officer Juan Delacruz to be charged with aggravated assault by a public servant for the incident, where 44-year-old Pamela Turner was shot to death.

Four Houston police officers were fired and one Baytown officer was indicted this month in two separate deadly shootings, amid a growing movement to hold police more accountable for deadly force.

The officer allegedly fired on Turner after she grabbed his Taser. But documents obtained by Houston Public Media earlier this year revealed that the Taser model was incapable of shooting a second set of darts without being manually reloaded.

"You don't get to shoot somebody 21 times," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter in April. "I cannot defend that."

The shooting, which wounded a 13-year-old autistic boy in Salt Lake City last Friday, has called attention to how police officers respond to calls involving a mental health crisis.

Over the past several years, the problem of police violence in the U.S. has garnered worldwide attention. Many of these highlight a devastating problem.

White police officers are more likely to be aggressive with civilians than Black officers, especially when policing in Black neighborhoods, according to a…

When her uncle died in the back of a squad car two years ago, Fort Worth police officer Tiffany Bunton said she cried her eyes out in front of her…

When George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott labeled the incident a “horrific act of police brutality” and…

A black man died in custody last year after sheriff’s deputies in Texas repeatedly used stun guns on him, despite his pleas that he was sick and couldn’t…

The Austin Justice Coalition, Grassroots Leadership and other advocacy groups are asking city leaders to fire Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, Chief of...