According to an Associated Press investigation, Iowa's Attorney General hasn't convicted a police officer for improperly using force since at least 2004, which was the earliest date for which records are available.

The city’s civilian police watchdog told elected officials last week that his office made little progress in overcoming barriers to independent oversight of the department in 2019.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily lifted a lower court’s preliminary injunction on federal law enforcement officers’ use of force, threats and dispersal orders against journalists and legal observers working at Portland protests.

OLYMPIA – In a report to the legislature released Tuesday, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson recommends law enforcement across the state begin reporting all uses of deadly force.

A man who was shot at by a police officer at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights on Monday said the whole thing started when he tried to cash out 7 cents from a slot machine.

Spokane police brass should have looked more critically and with greater transparency at an officer’s use of his police dog to apprehend a fleeing suspect in a trapped truck in February 2019, a report from the department’s civilian in charge of oversight found.

Spokane Police welcomed members of the media to its training facility on Thursday to demonstrate how, and in what circumstances, they use force to restrain a person. 

Spokane Police Academy trainer Officer Jake Jensen demonstrates the way officers are taught to take subjects, both compliant and combative, into custody, which can include putting the officer's weighted knee into the back or shoulder blades. New trainees are taught not to put the knee or shin to the back of the neck, but it may be used in circumstances where there is no other way to gain control of a combative subject.

The Spokane Police Department released on Thursday body camera footage of a March arrest that has received renewed and widespread attention in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

The Spokane Police Department fired an officer Tuesday who kicked a handcuffed suspect in the genitals during a July arrest. Prosecutors determined the kick appeared retaliatory, but the man did not wish to cooperate in the case.

A Spokane police officer kicked a handcuffed man in the genitals during a July arrest after the suspect surrendered but resisted restraints and allegedly kicked an officer, spurring an ongoing internal department investigation and criminal review by the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Officer Dan Lesser received one day of unpaid suspension for shouting vulgar death threats and failing to immediately activate his body camera during a February arrest in which he released a police dog into a suspect’s vehicle.

This moment is precisely why the ombudsman’s office exists. The police department has essentially signed off on everything in the video but Lesser’s demeanor. But we’ve got to have more than their word for it. Because it just doesn’t look right.

The chief watchdog of the Spokane Police Department raised a red flag on Tuesday about what he said is an “alarming,” crucial and unannounced change to how uses of force are referred to Internal Affairs investigators.

Spokane police Officer Daniel Lesser was placed on administrative leave after he fired two rounds at Charles E. Jackson Jr. on the afternoon of July 6. Jackson had allegedly pointed a real-looking BB gun at Lesser.

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office declined to file criminal charges Wednesday against Spokane police officer Kristopher Henderson in relation to an internal excessive force complaint in July.

Spokane, unlike other municipalities, is vague in its application of less-than-lethal tactics as laid out in the police department’s Use of Force Policy, Logue said. Specifically, there’s little clarity in the department’s treatment of what Logue calls the “sanctity of life.”