Portland police will receive $1.1 million for crowd-control munitions, shields and training for handling protests and riots after the City Council’s unanimous authorization Wednesday of an emergency ...

As the federal government cracks down on protests in Minnesota, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has told its officers they must undergo more crowd-control training to better prepare them to square ...

A line of officers in tactical gear faces a large crowd of demonstrators during a protest against the war in Gaza at Portland State University. The Portland Police Bureau recently re-established its ...

The Los Angeles Police Department says it’ll begin retraining thousands of officers in crowd-control tactics and new rules for using less-lethal weapons adopted following protests in 2020 that saw the ...

May 31, 2024 Updated Fri., May 31, 2024 at 7:41 p.m. Nearly 30 children and one adult became ill last week when a plume of tear gas and pepper spray used at a police training exercise in the area ...