Pepper spray use by SDPD officers in the Gaslamp Quarter has skyrocketed in recent years, with 361 deployments in 2025 up from 68 in 2017.

School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder. It happened Monday afternoon on England Avenue in Fuquay-Varina.

A crowd of people was sprayed with what witnesses described as “Mace” during a fight on Memorial Day in Jacksonville Beach, police said.

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – Football players from a Missouri high school were pepper sprayed by police at the end of a game against a school in Ohio. Video captured police in Massillon, Ohio, using pepper spray on football players from Cardinal Ritter College ...

An assault sent six people to the hospital this past Thursday.Dayton Police Department officers responded around 11:15 p.m. on Thursday,

The Human Rights Commission has stepped in after a Sub-Inspector allegedly pepper-sprayed a man's eyes. The man was called to the police station for texting his wife during their divorce proceedings.