In some Houston communities, residents perceive that some police officers shoot first and ask questions later. The shooting deaths last year of two Hispanic teens by HPD officers reinforced that view.

LOS ANGELES — Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died. He was 88. Cover, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died of ...

Though his pleas of “Don’t tase me, bro,” have been immortalized on the Internet and T-shirts, a recording of University of Florida junior Andrew Meyer resisting arrest and ultimately being tasered by ...