New records detail how Mesa park rangers were praised and promoted months before a criminal investigation was launched into ...

Mesa park rangers under investigation were among top overtime earners compared to seven metro Phoenix cities. Here's what data showed.

“Elward, like Opdyke, traced the brutality of the Goon Squad to you and McAlpin and the culture of violence you created and perpetuated,” Lee said, addressing Middleton directly.

The F.B.I. and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the ...

The highest-ranking member of the "Goon Squad" has been sentenced to more than 27 years in federal prison. Former Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin, 53, is the fifth of six white former lawmen to be ...

RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. -- A fourth former Mississippi law enforcement officer who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday, as accounts of the ...

The Goon Squad has left a long trail of shattered lives in its wake. Some people who said they were brutalized are jolted awake by nightmares after their encounters with deputies.

As members of ‘The Goon Squad’ are sentenced in Mississippi for torturing two Black men, Grace Hale writes that the exercise of unfettered power by Mississippi sheriffs is not a new problem.