List of Police Strikes
- United Kingdom (1918, 1919); Main article: Police strike 1918 and 1919
- Boston (1919); Main article: Boston Police Strike
- Melbourne (1923); Main article: 1923 Victorian Police strike
- Shanghai (1940)
- Cairo (1948)
- Detroit (1967)
- Paris (1944); see Liberation of Paris
- New Delhi (1946)
- Cicero, IL (1969)
- Montreal (1969); See: Murray-Hill riot
- New York City (1971)
- Baltimore (1974); Main article: Baltimore police strike
- San Francisco (1975),
- Cleveland (1978)
- New Orleans (1979)
- Birmingham (1979)
- Toledo (1979)
- Santa Barbara (1980)
- Milwaukee (1981)
- Corona, CA (1983)
- Ljubljana (1993)
- Bahia, Brazil (2001)
- Alagoas, Brazil (2001)
- Brazil (2004)
- Amsterdam (2007)
- Ljubljana (2010)
- Bahia, Brazil (2012)
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