LAPD officers respond to a call of a public disturbance in Van Nuys on Aug. 14. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) When Angelenos face a situation that requires calling 911 — such as encountering a ...

Lawmakers are pushing to eliminate the binding powers of police oversight boards, with an eye towards Indianapolis. Some worry the bill is too sweeping.

The New Jersey attorney general’s office is investigating a deadly “encounter” between cops and civilians in the state’s ...

Civilian oversight of law enforcement is dying. Not in statute, not in mission — but in impact, in execution, in public faith. What began as a bold democratic intervention into the secretive world of ...

Chicago will add civilian investigators to Internal Affairs to address a growing backlog of misconduct probes.

Police departments in central North Carolina are using civilians to respond to car crashes instead of police officers. The Apex Police Department employs a part-time civilian crash investigator.