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Documenting Police Use of Force
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less-lethal force.”
April 30, 2024
Lethal Restraint
The Associated Press and FRONTLINE investigated police use of force across the United States.
March 28, 2024
Vulnerable Veteran With Dementia Dies After Body Slam By Birmingham Officer
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, drove off from his Georgia home intending to shop for groceries. He became disoriented and wound up in Birmingham, Alabama.
March 28, 2024
This Is How Reporters Documented 1,000 Deaths After Police Force That Isn’t Supposed To Be Fatal
The federal government has struggled for years to track deaths that happened after police used force like physical restraints and Tasers that isn’t supposed to be lethal. After George Floyd was killed under a police officer’s knee, a team of reporters led by The Associated Press set out to do their own count.
March 28, 2024
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant To Kill?
Over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through means not intended to be lethal, an investigation led by The Associated Press found.
March 28, 2024
Key Findings From AP’s Investigation Into Police Force That Isn’t Supposed To Be Lethal
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
Check Your State: Here Are the Active Shooter Training Requirements for Schools and Law Enforcement
No states mandate annual active shooter training for police officers, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE. In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.
February 8, 2024
As Wayne LaPierre Resigns, a Look Back at His Role in the NRA's Transformation
Amid news that Wayne LaPierre is resigning as the NRA’s CEO and executive vice president effective Jan. 31, explore FRONTLINE's reporting on his role in the gun group's transformation.
January 30, 2024
DOJ Blasts Law Enforcement’s Uvalde Shooting Response in New Report, Calls for Agencies to Prioritize Training
In a long-awaited report, the Justice Department found widespread failures in the official response to the 2022 shooting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had officers followed accepted practices, “lives would have been saved.”
January 18, 2024
Reconstructing the Uvalde Shooting Response
Journalists behind “Inside the Uvalde Response” discuss how hundreds of hours of body cam footage and officer interviews reveal a chaotic police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX.
January 4, 2024
Reports Analyzing the Police Response to a Mass Shooting Can Leave Unanswered Questions — if They’re Released at All
Even if an after-action investigation is released, a lack of national standards leads to wide variability in the detail of information in reports, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE found.
December 27, 2023
Listen to the Top 5 'FRONTLINE Dispatch' Podcast Episodes of 2023
Here's where to find, and how to listen to, the 5 most-downloaded new episodes from ‘The FRONTLINE Dispatch’ podcast in 2023.
December 21, 2023