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 ...

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.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton today called for the state to change resisting arrest to a felony charge. Mr. Bratton testified today before a joint hearing of four State Senate committees, where he ...

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 ...