This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police play in modern society and how they came to serve this ...

A study of budgets in over 400 American cities over the last 5 years shows that, despite persistent claims by politicians, pundits, and police unions, there was no mass defunding of police. Police ...

The New Orleans Police Department is averaging about 3.8 traffic crashes per week in 2015 involving department vehicles and officers. (Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) A study of more than ...

A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians. Citing ...

The study, conducted by Matrix Consulting Group, was commissioned by the City Council in February 2024 to find ways to close gaps between police response times in different neighborhoods.

Remain with state police service, contract outside police services, join a regional police force or create a new stand-alone police department. A recent study analyzed the costs, benefits and ...

A state study recommends that Etna and Reserve form a regional police department, while also finding that doing so will cost each municipality more for police services. The Governor’s Center for Local ...