HPD used physical force against the wrong people during an islandwide manhunt in 2024, costing taxpayers almost $2 million.

The Maui Police Commission is investigating after one of Maui Police Chief John Pelletier’s top lieutenants, Michael Vaituulala, was indicted for corruption.

The Honolulu police chief says the department will no longer share data with other agencies, but five months of data remain in the hands of the IRS.

UPDATE: A woman was arrested in the fatal Target shooting of the son of Michael Butenbah, owner of the Defend Hawaiʻi brand.

Honolulu police signed a national pledge to increase the percentage of women in their ranks to 30% by 2030. Few departments have neared the mark. 

A California cop stonewalled an internal investigation into his handling of an alleged kidnapping while lining up a job in Hawai‘i as an investigator in the prosecutor’s office.

A proposal to beef up the Honolulu Police Commission appeared headed for the November ballot. But members of the charter commission rejected it at the last minute.

The new police chief has promised to be transparent and accessible. So far, observers say he’s living up to his word.

Michael Vaituulala appeared in federal court in Honolulu on Thursday. 

The public may never know key details about how Sina Pili was able to keep working with children as police investigated her for her daughter’s death.