BURLINGTON, VT — Nearly two years after the murder of George Floyd, cities around the country were prompted to take a closer look at police budgets. Some called the movement "Defund the Police," ...

Emanuel is laying out a public safety strategy as his party grapples with how to approach crime in the midterms.

I was tear-gassed on Oct. 14, while covering unrest on the East Side. After experiencing what I did and being face-to-face ...

Sayed, a progressive Democrat running for the US Senate in Michigan, has quietly erased thousands of old social media posts — including a dozen tweets that championed the “defund the police” movement, ...

Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in ...

The Madison Common Council passed a budget for 2026 Tuesday night after a new amendment was introduced to defund the Office ...

The nationwide protests against racism and police brutality have opened up space for transformative policy discussions that would have seemed unimaginable even a few weeks ago. Into that space has ...