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Students say they suffered broken bones, concussions and other injuries from allegedly aggressive police action breaking up pro-Palestinian protests last week.

Officials have deployed thousands of armed police and national guard troops into the system. Critics fear a new era of profiling

It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.

Lawmakers question if NYC enables bad policing by defending against misconduct claims instead of demanding change

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams lauded the NYPD’s controversial riot unit Monday and suggested it would stay in place — days after it and the police department came under fire for failing to appear at a City Council hearing on the unit’s handling of the 2020 George Floyd protests.

The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.

From a decision of the N.Y. Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, handed down on Jan. 27 but just posted on Westlaw: The inquiring full-time judge asks if it is ethically permissible to serve on the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). As the organization's website…

Inmates with opioid addiction suffered severe withdrawal after the Jefferson County Correctional Facility stripped them of their medication.