NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barry Friedman, the director of New York University's Policing Project, about the role of the police in modern society. What are police really for in this country?

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Your local police department may know more about you than you think. Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools — including publicly ...

Americans alive today have never lived in a country without police. But, sparked by the death of yet another black man at the hands of police, there’s a growing movement to create a police-free ...

The 911 call placed from the teenager’s phone last week reported a young person who may be brandishing a gun in an Austin, Texas, parking lot. When officers arrived at a community park early Friday ...