When a man wielding a metal bat charged at police officers outside a southeast Las Vegas Valley apartment complex in September, Metropolitan Police Department officers deployed an electronic control ...

Chandler Crumblish Paine is a full-time mom and regular jogger who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s never owned a gun, but last year she became increasingly concerned about her safety, especially ...

In January, 33-year-old Turrell Clay died not long after being arrested by Phoenix police. An autopsy report released on Aug. 8 – seven months after Clay’s death – pins the blame on the supposedly ...

The wave of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection has brought law enforcement’s use of force coming under renewed scrutiny — though even so-called “less ...

Around 2 p.m. on Jan. 10, Phoenix police officers surrounded a home in Maryvale, a neighborhood on the city’s west side. A lone, shirtless man sat on the roof after running from officers and ditching ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Fullerton police officer killed a man who refused to comply with orders by firing a beanbag round that pierced ...

Turrell Clay, 33, had an outstanding felony parole violation warrant and was wanted in connection with an armed robbery. From the front and back of the house, officers aimed at Clay with launchers ...

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee launched a probe Friday into the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) arsenal of “less lethal” weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, ...

ALBUQUERQUE — A new line of “less-lethal” guns has made its way onto New Mexico store shelves, and a teacher at Santa Fe Public Schools and her husband have the exclusive rights to sell them in the ...