In other cities, citizens have complained that police officers have covered their names or badges. City officials in Chicago, New York and Seattle have said that practice is unacceptable.

Anonymity for police who use deadly force is part of a national phenomenon, one that often keeps officers’ names — and the details of their actions in fatal encounters — shielded from public ...

Police officers in Buffalo, New York, no longer need to wear their names on their uniforms. Officers will wear an identifying number instead of their names per a police department policy change ...

Lawrence Police Department vehicles are pictured during the University of Kansas Homecoming Parade in this file photo from Sept. 27, 2018. As members of the public nationwide have viewed law ...

D.C. police initially said it was against policy to let those who leave keep their badges. But it made an exception for Fanone, who was badly injured on Jan. 6.

In 2002, a one-man recruit class was created in order to assign a badge number and uniform to then-Superintendent Joseph Santiago, the only State Police superintendent who never served as a trooper.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo Police officers are no longer required to display their names on their badges after a change in departmental rules. Officers will now be required to wear badges ...