African Americans in San Francisco are cited for resisting arrest at a rate eight times greater than whites even when serious crimes are not involved, according to statistics drawn from court records.

Under California law, resisting, delaying, or obstructing a police officer, while they are doing their job, can also be a stand-alone crime. There doesn't have to be an underlying charge. Captain Jeff ...

A Louisiana police chief says the state's new "blue lives matter" law, which makes it a hate crime to target a police officer, extends to simply resisting arrest. Andrew Katz/ZUMA Press/Newscom The ...

Police commissioner William Bratton told the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday that there’s a trend of people resisting arrest. “What we’re seeing … over the last several months [is] a number of ...