In an investigation published Tuesday, the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman reports on the existence of a warehouse in Chicago called Homan Square, where police take suspects to keep them out of official databases, deny them legal counsel, and beat them.

The NYPD has been showing a scene from Patrick Swayze's underrated 1989 classic Road House as part of a mandatory, three-day retraining course for 22,000 cops, the New York Post reports. It's the part where Swayze tells a bunch of tough guys to "be nice."

The three Los Angeles Police Department officers who shot and killed Brian Beaird after a car chase on live television in 2013 will not face criminal charges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beaird, a 51-year-old a National Guard veteran, suffered from mental illness.

A Minneapolis police officer is in stable condition after being shot early Saturday morning, the Associated Press reports. Police believe the officer was targeted because he was a cop.

A Brooklyn cop trying to shoot at a dog took out a slightly more substantial target—his boss.

In footage being used as evidence in an excessive force lawsuit against the St. Louis Police Department, an officer can be seen warning a group of at least seven cops arresting a suspect that a car's dashcam was on and recording them before the footage cuts out for more than two minutes.

Two Philadelphia cops who allegedly beat a man senseless before arresting him for assault are now facing jail time themselves after the man's sister found surveillance footage of the attack.

A new video appears to show a New Rochelle police officer pulling his gun on a group of black teens who had reportedly been having a snowball fight. "Don't fucking move, guys," the officer tells them, before frisking two kneeling on the ground.

Seattle high school teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian is suing the city for $500,000 after police fired pepper spray at him as he walked past officers at a Martin Luther King Day rally. In video of the incident obtained and released by the NAACP, it appears Hagopian and other bystanders were sprayed by officers unprovoked.

A brawl ended a public meeting at St. Louis City Hall Wednesday night to discuss a proposed civilian review board of local police.

Roxanne Rimer was arrested by police two weeks ago about 10 miles away from the Pennsylvania Kohl's she is accused of shoplifting from. After she was handcuffed and put into the back of a police car, she managed to climb through the partition and drive off. Police released the impressive dashcam footage today.

Was this officer's Taylor Swift lip sync truly spontaneous, as the video's introduction suggests? Can its seated star really said to be dancing, as numerous media outlets have claimed?

A female soldier visiting the North Miami Beach police department's shooting range last month was reportedly horrified to discover officers were using her brother's mugshot for target practice.

Top NYPD officials are demanding increased summons activity after a weeks-long slowdown, the New York Post reports. Borough commanders have reportedly mandated that precincts deliver "activity sheets" detailing the number of arrests and summons per shift. Officers have reportedly also been threatened with a loss of vacation time.

Two NYPD officers were shot responding to a robbery near Fordham University in the Bronx late Monday night. The suspected shooter and an accomplice are reportedly at large.

The subway conductor allegedly attacked by NYPD officer Mirjan Lolja on a Bronx subway platform says the cop tried to escape by train after throwing her to the ground and choking her. The woman anonymously told the New York Daily News, "I believe the only thing that saved me was the train coming into the station."

NYPD officer Mirjan Lolja turned himself in to a Harlem precinct this week after security camera footage of him fleeing a Bronx subway station, the scene of an alleged attack on an MTA employee, aired on the news.

Police union officials have denied that last week's plummeting arrest numbers are a result of an organized work stoppage or slowdown, according to the New York Times. Rather, officials say, this is a result of cops being scared and sad.

Washington, D.C. police were forced to apologize to Karen Robinson after erroneously identifying her son Raymond as having been shot and killed in a shootout with cops. Officers knocked on her door at 2 a.m. Christmas Day to deliver the bad news that wasn't hers.

A New Jersey man was arrested this weekend after he made a false emergency call and asked responding officers for a ride to the convenience store, the Burlington County Times reports.