Law enforcement

In an AP illustration, people are arrested on the street by Myanmar’s military. Since its takeover of the government in February, the the country’s military has used torture against those it has detained in a methodical and systemic way across the country, the AP found in rare interviews with 28 people imprisoned and released in recent months.(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

In this Sept. 23, 2021, photo Jhaimarion, 10, listens during an AP interview in Chicago, Sept. 23, 2021, as his mother, Krystal Archie, describes traumatic experiences with police. Archie’s three children were present when police, on two occasions just 11 weeks apart, kicked open her front door and tore through their home searching for drug suspects. She’d never heard of the people they were looking for. The family was ordered to get down on the floor; Jhaimarion, the youngest, was 7 at the time. An AP investigation explores how Black and brown children are disproportionately affected by police force. (AP Photo / Nam Y. Huh)

Children stand in the courtyard of the Maison La Providence de Dieu orphanage it Ganthier, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Oct. 17, 2021, where a gang abducted 17 missionaries — 12 adults and five children — of U.S.-based Christian Aid Ministries. The 400 Mawozo gang, notorious for brazen kidnappings and killings took the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian after a visit to the orphanage. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn)

In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by The Associated Press, Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown slams motorist DeShawn Washington against the hood of a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Ouachita Parish, La., after troopers found marijuana in the trunk of Washington’s car, in a March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by the AP. Use of force was omitted from the police report. (Louisiana State Police via AP)

Michael Williams sits for an interview in his South Side Chicago home, July 27, 2021, after spending nearly a year in jail as a suspect in a May 2020 killing. Prosecutors had used ShotsSpotter evidence to build their case against Williams. “I kept trying to figure out, how can they get away with using the technology like that against me?” he asked. “That’s not fair.” His case was eventually dismissed when prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence. (AP Photo / Charles Rex Arbogast)

A pickup truck with a Confederate-themed sticker is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, Florida’s prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. In 2013, at a prison dorm room in the facility, Warren Williams, a Black inmate who suffered from severe anxiety and depression fought and bit Thomas Driver, a white prison guard. When Williams was released a few months later, Driver and two fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan conspired to kill him. The KKK man they enlisted to do the killing was an FBI informant. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

A security officer in protective gear gestures as he stands in a hallway with rooms for video meetings with inmates in the visitors' hall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 23, 2021. AP’s reporting suggests that while many of China’s “training centers” have closed, some like this one were simply converted into prisons or pre-trial detention facilities, largely for vast numbers of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities. (AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein)

Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force who were captured by Tigray forces gather inside a prison as prisoners of war, in Mekele, capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, July 6, 2021. Debretsion Gebremichael, Tigray’s president, said more than 6,000 Ethiopian soldiers and officers had been detained. “We are committed to keep them well as long as they are with us,” he said. “And after a while, yes, our plan is ... they have to be free, wherever they want.” For the prisoners of war, many of whom the Tigray leaders have said will be released, conditions are challenging because of the destruction that Ethiopian and allied forces waged for months against almost all health centers across Tigray. (AP Photo)

Bill Cosby, center, listens to members of his team speak with the media outside his home in Elkins Park, Pa., June 30, 2021, after Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sex assault conviction and released him from prison. From left are: spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, atttorney Jennifer Bonjean, Cosby, attorney Brian Perry and attorney Ashley Cohen. The court found that an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged in the case. The 83-year-old Cosby had served more than two years at the state prison near Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A photo illustration combines a defendant’s letter to a judge in the case of weapons he stole from a Massachusetts armory and an evidence photo of an M4 carbine rifle. In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an AP investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. AP’s total is an undercount of a problem some armed services have downplayed. (AP Illustration / Nat Castañeda)

In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 image from Louisiana State Police body camera video, An unidentified law enforcement officer applies an electric weapon to the back of motorist Antonio Harris as officers restrain Harris after a high speed chase in Franklin Parish, La., May 23, 2020, in an image from Louisiana State Police body camera video. Troop F of the State Police, a 66-officer unit, has become notorious in recent years for alleged acts of brutality that have resulted in felony charges against some of its troopers.Troopers from the (Larry Shappley / Louisiana State Police via AP)