What is the song about? How did it help The Police avoid the sophomore slump? And why does Sting feel it’s one of the finest songs that he’s ever written? Let’s get that cork out of there and find out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Throughout the late ‘70s and the ‘80s, The Police changed the sound ...

And yet the streets of Minneapolis tell a different story. As a result of the “very strong movement to defund the police,” in the words of Brian O’Hara, the new police chief, the number of officers on ...

"Why has Seattle lost so many police officers?" The answer is not that the Seattle Police Department was defunded. Let's rewind to 2020, when protests following the police murder of George Floyd ...

Critics have blasted it as undermining support for police officers. Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, and other police-involved ...

Police diversity correlates to arrests among people of color, an analysis found. Before joining the local police force eight years ago, Ryan Tillman, a young police corporal in Chino, California, was ...

A few weeks into the largest racial justice protests in modern American history, the lone Black woman in the U.S. Senate appeared on “Good Morning America” to address one of the most controversial ...

According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. Wolford, Jr. was, in fact, ...

A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid ...

Months before winning New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor, Zohran Mamdani sat inside a Pakistani restaurant in Queens with around two dozen off-duty police officers. The officers were ...

This story is part of “Trump Two: Six Months In,” our series taking stock of the administration’s efforts to reshape immigration enforcement and criminal justice. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of ...