Police are still searching for a woman suspected of stabbing a Mercury News reporter at his Willow Glen home early Friday.

San Jose awarded a $525,000 settlement to a man suffering from intractable brain damage after a cop dropped his head to the ground.

A cyberattack has kept the San Jose Police Department’s website mostly offline for several days, according to city officials.

Parents of a mentally unstable teenager shot and killed by a San Jose police officer say a report clearing the officer ignores evidence that the encounter unnecessarily turned deadly.

Never in the history of the San Jose Police Department has a citizen's allegation of racial bias been upheld. In her final year-end review as Independent Police Auditor, LaDoris Cordell says the agency needs to change the way it investigates accusations of bias-based policing.

A veteran San Jose police officer was shot to death Tuesday night by a suicidal man armed with a high-powered rifle.

It's a common practice to use old, gutted patrol cars as mechanical scarecrows, according to San Jose Police Department spokesman Officer Albert Morales. But police are pretty miffed that they weren't notified about a plan to park a defunct cruiser near the San Jose Repertory Theater for about a week.

San Jose Councilman Ash Kalra says the city’s got some explaining to do about its police stats gaffe. In a memo to the Rules and Open Government Committee, which meets Wednesday, Kalra calls for a hearing in front of the City Council about why a change was made in calculating gang stats, and why the numbers were misrepresented to the public.

When the San Jose Police Department boasted about a 42.9 percent drop in gang-related homicides last month, it should have placed an asterisk by that figure. Police failed to mention that the dip in homicides and other gang violence this year came mostly from a change in the way the department classifies those crimes.