The Albany County Sheriff's Office is investigating a traffic stop where Officer Philip Milano used a taser on a man who was passively refusing to comply.

Police departments should analyze their arrests for bias and then develop policies for fair treatment.

A petition has been started, on a closed Facebook page, to fire Albany County Sheriff’s Deputy Philip Milano.

A Facebook video of a New Scotland traffic stop, shown by local television news shows and picked up by the liberal activist news service Alternet.org with the headline, “Cop can’t wait for his backup to arrive so he could needlessly tase a nonviolent man,” has raised questions about the danger of traffic stops for officers and about th

Police departments should reform their rules on Taser use so that a young man goading a cop at a traffic stop, as happened this month in New Scotland, isn't shot with a stun gun; the results can be deadly.

A 40-year-old woman feels she was discriminated against for her neurological problems and fears she will have extended panic attacks in jail.