Radley Balko

If there’s no accountability for an abuse of power caught on video, in front of hundreds of witnesses, how can we expect accountability anywhere else?

As national support for police reform grows, Congress's bills lack teeth.

The highest-ranking law enforcement official in a California county is using the law to seek retaliation against a lower-ranking county employee.

The Hallandale Beach SWAT team’s record includes violent drug raids, racial bias, terrorized residents and killing an unarmed man. Maybe it’s better if the town no longer has one.

Even controlling for crime rates, class and income, racial bias infects every nook and cranny of our courts, prisons, jails and police stations.

The police crackdown on largely peaceful protests has shown that bad cops are largely protected, covered for and shielded from liability, says Radley Balko.

She's just the latest casualty of a judicial system that refuses to protect the Fourth Amendment.

White people can compartmentalize these stories. Black people don’t have that luxury.

Charles Hobbs was sick for weeks. The staff at his Miami jail did little to help. He died alone.

Some jails and prisons are seeing astronomical infection rates. But most have chosen not to look.