When recruits were repeatedly punched and tackled during a role-playing exercise at the Texas game wardens academy last year, they were taking part in a longstanding police training tradition that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this still image from video obtained by The Associated Press, Heather Sterling is hit in the head by one of her instructors, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Police academy drills are linked to at least a dozen deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide since 2005, with ...