Akron City Council is set to vote on whether to move forward with an external audit of the Akron Police Department's use of force policy. The audit, which is estimated to cost over $600,000, has been ...

The proposed audit comes after multiple high profile officer-involved shootings over the last few years, including the deaths of 25-year-old Jayland Walker and 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker.

There's a microscope hovering over the City of Akron's leadership following yet another high-profile police-involved shooting.

Ahead of a city council meeting at which council members could vote for or against a proposed study of the city’s use of ...

The proposal follows the 2022 fatal police-involved shooting of Jayland Walker and last year’s fatal police-involved shooting of Jazmir Tucker. In its annual report to city council, members of ...

Emotions ran high at Monday’s city council meeting. An Akron City Council member called on Mayor Shammas Malik to fire Akron police officer Devon Fields, who shot and killed 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker ...

State agents investigated 10 cases in which police killed residents in Northeast Ohio last year, part of a broader ...

As Akron leaders consider a proposal to hire an outside consulting team to review the city's use-of-force policy, residents ...