Law enforcement

More than a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Department of Justice continues to spend enormous amounts of time and energy pressing cases against people from across the country who tried to overturn a presidential election with violence. Seventeen Missourians are facing federal charges.

Seven years after Ferguson and months after the George Floyd murder verdict, police reform has stagnated. The legal system remains stacked in favor of police. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funded a team of a dozen college journalists to take a broad look at the issues.

On "St. Louis on the Air," the Legal Roundtable discussed the most important developments in the past month involving the area's judicial system, including two 8th Circuit rulings on qualified immunity and lawsuits over Missouri's Sunshine Law.

Donald Hutson’s family had been waiting for his release from prison for decades.But in September 2018, Hutson died at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center…

Dayton, Ohio-based Persistent Surveillance Systems developed its aerial surveillance system to help the military in Fallujah. The company’s CEO, Ross…

Former St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson first introduced the idea of the “Ferguson effect” in a 2014 column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when he…

Only 20% of FBI agents nationwide are women — and that number is less in St. Louis: 10%.So, the bureau hopes an event scheduled for July 24 in St. Louis…

Officials from the St. Louis County Police Department want the public and the region’s law enforcement to know touching the synthetic opioid fentanyl…

Decriminalizing marijuana doesn’t necessarily lead to an increase in adolescent use, according to research from Washington University.Marijuana possession…

Four rural counties outside St. Louis will ask their voters Tuesday for more money in an effort to keep officers at their departments and make it easier…