By Libor JanyLos Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police oversight body was critical of tactics used by two LAPD officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man holding a scooter part last January, but ultimately ruled that the officers acted within department policy...
By Greg SmithThe Day, New London, Conn.NEW LONDON, Conn. — The police department’s K9 unit has received a $20,000 donation from an unlikely source — a man convicted of assaulting a police officer.The $20,000 check arrived in the mail not long after a Nov. 8...
By Jeffrey CollinsAssociated PressGILBERT, S.C. — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police officers’ mobile devices as they respond to...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1LOS ANGELES — The LAPD is looking to adjust its policies to allow immigrant officers with deferred citizenship to keep their service firearms while off-duty, NBC Los Angeles reported.Federal law normally prohibits residents of the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1MILFORD, Conn. — An officer was attacked and his cruiser damaged while attempting to intervene in a street takeover, the Hartford Courant reported.Body camera video shows the officer being surrounded by a crowd of more than 100 spectators after arriving at the scene....
By Joanna PutmanPolice1MONTEBELLO, Calif. — Newly released surveillance and body camera footage shows a suspect ramming into two unmarked detective vehicles with his car before an officer-involved shooting left him injured, KABC reported.The shooting happened on Oct. 31 after detectives were conducting surveillance on a...
Editor’s note: The suspect in this case, Chunliam Saechao, 40, was charged Wednesday with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, six counts of assault with a firearm on a police officer, and one domestic violence charge, along with enhancements alleging use of...
By Grace KinnicuttQuad City Times, Davenport, IowaHAMPTON, Ill. — Hampton plans to dissolve its police department and instead contract with the Rock Island County Sheriff’s Department to provide protection services.Hampton’s Village Board of Trustees voted to approve the change and move forward with working out...
Weatherford Democrat, TexasSOMERVELL COUNTY, Texas — An investigator with the Somervell County Sheriff’s Office was killed in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday morning.The Texas Department of Public Safety responded to a crash on State Highway 144, just a few miles south of Glen Rose, around 6:45...
By Dylan Lovan Associated PressLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal prosecutors told a judge Wednesday they intend to retry former Louisville officer Brett Hankison after a jury deadlocked last month over charges he used excessive force the night Breonna Taylor was killed by police in 2020.A judge...
