Sean Bell

A review of 19 deaths of Black Americans involving police officers shows that, despite public outrage, guilty verdicts are rare.

A new report found pervasive examples of racial bias — some explicit, some subtle — in New York State’s court system.

A life’s value can be determined by the culpability of the officer, the sympathy for the victim, and even where the people lived.

The play, created and directed by Theodora Skipitares, intertwines Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” with the stories of Eric Garner and others killed by the police.

To protest police violence, an artist resurrected an old N.A.A.C.P. flag about lynching. I wondered if provocative art could help a divided nation confront its past and present.

Nicole Bell, whose fiancé was killed when the police fired 50 times into his car in 2006, is endorsing Hillary Clinton as she and Senator Bernie Sanders vie for the support of black voters before New York’s April 19 primary.

In three of four similar police brutality cases in New York City in recent years, officers were indicted by state prosecutors.

On the Queens streets near the site of Sean Bell’s shooting, residents expressed anger, and resentments that remain unresolved, while response among police personnel was more subdued.

A ruling to fire a detective for his role in the killing of Sean Bell in Queens is upheld, and three other officers will be forced to resign.

New York’s police commissioner will consider a recommendation from a departmental trial to dismiss a detective who fired his weapon during the 50-bullet fusillade that killed Sean Bell five years ago.