This piece was originally published on The Crime Report. The militarized law enforcement response to peaceful protests over the killing of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo. last month, has ...

“How to handcuff someone, how to flash your badge, all that stuff, there's a technical advisor, James Nuciforo, who taught me all of that,” he says, adding that he also had to “learn a whole lot of ...

Police commissioner Ramsey, who called for the report, is a central figure in the renewed push for police reform that has swept the country since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. last year.

The actor tells PEOPLE that police officers stop him in the streets to tell him he’s “1,000%” believable as a detective Steve ...