Police brutality in the United States, the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers. Forms of police brutality have ranged from assault and battery (e.g., beatings) to mayhem, torture, and murder. Some broader definitions of police brutality also encompass harassment (including false arrest), intimidation, and verbal abuse,…
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Crimes Against Peace, Security of Mankind and International Legal Order: Police Statistic for 9 Month2 2025
According to official data of the Office of General Prosecutor, as of 7 August 2022, the Ukrainian authorities were investigating almost 26 thousand criminal cases of suspected war crimes committed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In 2023, the number of war crimes increased 246 times as compared to 2021 (62128…
New State Law Requires Additional Safeguards When Police Use Generative AI
Gov. Gavin Newsom this month signed a first-of-its-kind California law requiring police to disclose how they use generative artificial intelligence, a move aimed at boosting transparency and public trust. California is among the first states to address the issue. The reporting was cited in the legislative analysis of the bill that ultimately became the law. Senate Bill…
UP Police Embraces AI and Cyber Training in Yogi Adityanath’s Hybrid Model for 60,244 Recruits
In a landmark move to modernize law enforcement, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has unveiled a tech-forward hybrid training model for 60,244 newly appointed police personnel. The initiative marks one of India’s largest digital transformations in police training, integrating artificial intelligence, cybercrime modules, and simulation-based learning into the traditional curriculum. Tech Highlights of the…
Crimes Committed With Firearms: Police Statistics for 9 Months 2025
While analysing crimes committed with firearms and corresponding crime statistics, it could be expected that crime rates resulting from illegal use of firearms would extremely rise after February 2022. Nevertheless, police statistics partly refute such a presumption. Yes, it is obvious that the number of crimes with weapons has seriously risen for the twelve months…
France: Two Men Arrested Over Theft of Jewels at Louvre Museum
Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum.The Paris prosecutor’s office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Items worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from the world’s most-visited museum last…
Crimes Committed by Russian Military Personnel During the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (as of 26 October 2025)
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, investigators from the National Police of Ukraine have opened 170,028 criminal proceedings into crimes committed on Ukrainian territory by servicemen of the Russian Federation’s armed forces and their accomplices. Of these:
Ukraine: 663 Strikes on Populated Areas in the Zaporizhzhia region in 24 hours: Consequences Documented by the Police
On 25 October 2025, Russian occupiers used 414 UAVs (mostly FPV), carried out 5 air strikes and 238 artillery strikes, and fired 6 times from multiple launch rocket systems. The enemy shelled Yurkivka in Zaporizhzhia, Stepnogorsk, Plavni, Stepove in Vasylivka, as well as Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Novodanilivka, Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaky, Novoandriivka, Charivne, Bilohirya, Uspenivka, Chervone, Malynivka,…
Shelling of Kyiv on 26 October 2025: Ukraine’s National Police Keeps Documenting the Aftermath of the Shelling of the Capital
Two dead and thirteen injured: police continue to document the aftermath of the hostile shelling of the capital that took place on 26 October 2025. In addition to a 36-year-old man whose body was recovered from the rubble in the Desnianskyi district, a 58-year-old man was killed in the same district and was taken to…
Cybercrime in Ukraine: Police Statistics for 9 Months 2025
Focusing on cybercrimes in Ukraine, we should note that we use the term ‘cybercrime’, although the full title of the relevant Section of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is ‘criminal offences in the field of the use of electronic computers, systems and networks, computer networks and electronic communication networks’. Cybercrimes (criminal proceedings, total) Cybercrimes…