President Donald Trump is seen on a screen speaking in June 2025 at Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army base in North Carolina. Reports ...

In recent years, American public opinion about police has swung wildly from strong support for law enforcement, to serious calls for reform in the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A convoy of armored personnel carriers arrives in Ferguson, Mo., in response to the protests of August 2014. (Scott Olson / Getty ...

CHICAGO - St. Louis County's top police officer said on Tuesday that the heavy-armored trucks and some of the military-style equipment used by police in last month's unrest in Ferguson helped keep ...

Former President Barack Obama is continuing his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s actions, this time warning against the 47th president of the United States’ recent takeover of the D.C. local ...

Rep. Hank Johnson didn't like the Pentagon's surplus military transfer program long before Ferguson, Missouri, turned into a war zone. The Georgia Democrat, a member of the House Armed Services ...

“It fundamentally shifted the role of police from guardians to soldiers,” Dr. Jessica Katzenstein, an anthropologist who studies police militarization, said. “The idea of public safety was replaced by ...

A decade ago, an encouraging bipartisan consensus was emerging for the need to reform public-safety policies in a way that improved crime-fighting and cost-efficiency and assured that policing better ...

The bright red line between domestic policing and our military is being blurred and represents an existential threat to our freedoms, our democratic values — and our way of life. President Donald ...