The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched, or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars ...

If police stop the vehicle after a known reporting error, that history may become important later. Investigations of plate-reader mistakes have found not only reading failures but also human or ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration recently agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Chicago police Lt. Franklin Paz, who alleged he was dumped ...

More than a decade ago, California passed a law aimed at curbing racial and identity-based profiling by police. The Racial and Identity Profiling Act, or RIPA, requires law enforcement agencies to ...

During the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge in D.C., U.S. Park Police tailed a Guatemalan man along Rock Creek Parkway, following him to a market in the Petworth neighborhood that ...

An alleged lack of proper identification on the roads has put countless Michigan immigrants on the path to deportation. Advocates point to another way.

Drivers better slow down in Gig Harbor, based on the traffic stops police conducted in the city earlier this year. From Jan. 1 to Feb. 2, Gig Harbor police officers conducted 405 traffic stops — over ...

California data shows law enforcement in Shasta and Siskiyou counties are more likely to stop Black people than White people. Black individuals in Shasta County had the highest rate of traffic stops ...