Photo Essays

After Newtown, School Shooter Training for Teachers
As schools across the country review their lockdown procedures, more than 100 teachers and administrators in Alabama took crisis-management preparation a step...

Raid on a Polygamist Town: Arizona, 1953
Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, Arizona law enforcement launched what has since become known as the Short Creek raid: the arrest of men and women in an...

Crime in Middle America
Photographer James Nachtwey documents law enforcement in Milwaukee Photographs by James Nachtwey / VII for TIME

SWAT!
An American law enforcement innovation, popularized on television and movies, spreads around the world, inspiring elaborate training and high level competitions...

Immigration Detention in Arizona
Photographer John Moore documents the detention and incarceration of undocumented aliens in the wake of the April 2010 passage of the Support Our Law Enforcement...


