Now in 2026, we are seeing more diversity in these roles, especially in police departments. Two police chiefs in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matteson recently appointed the village’s first African American police and fire chiefs, with both having extensive experience in ...

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (WLS) -- He was Merrillville's first African-American police officer in 1994. More than 26 years later, Wiley Luther Cuttino makes history again becoming the Northwest Indiana ...

President Trump has deployed federal law enforcement officers and the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. and threatened to take over predominantly Black Democratic cities by decree. The ...

Newspaper reports provide more details about pioneers profiled in Wendall Dabney’s classic book on Black history in Cincinnati. Henry Hagerman made history as the first Black patrolman in Cincinnati ...

Dartmouth's first Black police officer is being honoured by Halifax Regional Police. A room at police headquarters has been dedicated to the late Const. Sinclair Williams, who was hired by the former ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Police Department took to social media to honor the life of Captain Claudine Penn, the first Black woman in the City of Memphis to serve as an MPD officer. Captain ...

Two leaders who made history by being the first: Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. and former Chief of the Omaha Police Department Thomas Warren Jr. have been friends since childhood.

The number of Black recruits — especially women — has been dropping for years at the LAPD. The department quietly shut down its DEI program this year. President Trump’s efforts to do away with DEI ...

Missouri's governor recently authorized the state's National Guard to assist ICE with clerical duties. Black police officers fear the trust they've built with communities of color could take years to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The city of Charleston mourned the death of its first Black police chief, who led the agency for nearly a quarter-century on Sept. 24, 2014. Reuben Greenberg, 71, died nine ...

The raid utilized discriminatory vagrancy laws, similar to those used in the South to criminalize and re-enslave Black people after the Civil War. The mass arrests in 1909 are an early example of ...