If only Eric Garner wasn’t resisting arrest, he would be alive. NYPD defenders told me that as I covered the months of rage following the July death of the Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest ...

Police commissioner William Bratton told the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday that there’s a trend of people resisting arrest. “What we’re seeing … over the last several months [is] a number of ...

How do you tell a good cop from a bad one? Amid the debate over increasingly dangerous, and in some cases lethal, police tactics, a recent report by WNYC has discovered a disturbing reality about the ...

It can probably be said that no one wants to get arrested. And oftentimes – whether right or wrong – a person may put up a fight to avoid going to jail. Under South Carolina law, that’s called ...