The Police Records Access Project database, now available to the public, contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in California.

The debate over how to curb police shootings shifted Tuesday as law enforcement groups agreed to drop a part of their bill.

Police on Monday shot an armed woman who was reportedly suffering from a mental health crisis. She is expected to survive her injuries.

In the recently launched SV411 Podcast, we speak with San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia about police shootings and mental illness.

San Jose police opened fire on a man who rammed a stolen SUV into a patrol car early Tuesday. Police are still searching for the suspect.

San Jose police have identified the gunman who held a woman hostage Monday in a standoff that left both dead and an officer wounded.

Monday’s shooting of homicide suspect Richard Jacquez brought this year’s officer-involved shooting total to eight.

San Jose police shot and killed a man who allegedly reached for a handgun Sunday, marking the third officer-involved shooting in eight days.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen declined to file charges against a county sheriff deputy who shot and killed a 61-year-old woman described as "crazy, evil, pissed, possessed" the night of the fatal encounter.

Deadly encounters between police and citizens have increased in recent years. And while officer-involved shootings are nearly always ruled justified, mistakes are costly—both in lives and in the millions that the public pays to victims and their heirs.