Police in the US killed at least 1,232 people last year, making 2023 the deadliest year for homicides committed by law enforcement in more than a decade, according to newly released data.
Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested and jailed because of police departments' widespread use of unreliable roadside field tests for drugs, according to a study released today by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, which bills itself as the first comprehensive analysis of the use of presumptive drug field test kits by law enforcement agencies in the country, estimates that each year approximately 773,000 drug-related arrests involve the use of such test kits. That's half of the roughly 1.5 million annual drug arrests in the U.S.
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