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Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police

December 18, 2024

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill?

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death.

March 28, 2024

A veteran with dementia got lost going shopping. He died months after an officer body-slammed him

March 28, 2024

A mom called 911 to get her son mental health help. He died after police responded with force

March 28, 2024

'Murder in progress': Police tried to spare attacker's life as they saved woman from assault

March 28, 2024

Key findings from AP’s investigation into police force that isn’t supposed to be lethal

March 28, 2024

For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

The incomplete narrative of a young man’s death has changed those he left behind.

March 29, 2024

He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead

Records show Jameek Lowery, a 27-year-old Black man from Paterson, New Jersey, died two days after he was restrained and repeatedly punched by officers.

March 29, 2024

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years.

April 26, 2024

AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.

May 14, 2024

Risks of handcuffing someone facedown long known; people die when police training fails to keep up

May 14, 2024

Florida family’s 911 call to help loved one ends in death after police breach safety protocols

When an Orlando-area man became violent while suffering paranoid delusions, his sister called 911 figuring police would take him for mental health help. Instead, officers shocked him with Tasers and pinned him facedown.

May 14, 2024

Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son

A Tennessee mother whose son was having a seizure in his apartment says in a new lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected him to “inhumane acts of violence.”

August 16, 2024

Policing group says officers must change how and when they use physical force on US streets

September 24, 2024

A series of deaths and the ‘Big Fight': Uncovering police force in one Midwestern city

Police leaders called the training “routine” when one recruit died and another was badly injured at their academy. It wasn’t the first time the Evansville Police Department in Indiana had downplayed the use of force, as a series of four deaths on city streets shows.

October 8, 2024

How Tucson police handled a death like George Floyd’s when leaders thought it would never happen

Like many American cities, in June 2020 Tucson was struggling with the murder of George Floyd. What protesters didn’t know was that their city had two undisclosed deaths of Latino men who — like Floyd — said they could not breathe after officers pinned them face down.

October 8, 2024