By Joanna PutmanPolice1CHICAGO — Newly released body camera footage shows how a traffic stop in Chicago escalated into a fatal shooting incident involving multiple police officers and a driver, CNN reported.Video shows officers in plain clothes surrounding Dexter Reed’s vehicle. The officers responding to the...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1FAIRFAX, Va. — The National Rifle Association announced the launch of its Law Enforcement Range Fund, a new initiative supporting the development and enhancement of law enforcement training ranges across the United States, according to a news release.This matching grant program aims to...
By Puneet BsantiThe News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)TACOMA, Wash. — Police officer Steve O’Neal and his colleagues were having lunch Monday at a Tacoma Police Department substation when they heard over the radio that a teenager was drowning in Wapato Lake. Realizing the lake was nearby,...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1BOONEVILLE, Miss. — The Chief of the Northeast Mississippi Community College Police Department has died after suffering a medical emergency while on duty, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.Chief William Anthony Anderson Sr., 61, had been working multiple extra shifts in a...
By Gus Burnsmlive.comPONTIAC, Mich. — One by one, the teary-eyed or angry parents — mothers, fathers, siblings — approached the podium to share their loss.They scolded the parents whose son committed the murders that forever changed their lives and shared memories of the ones they...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1AKRON, Ohio — Newly released body camera video shows an officer-involved shooting of a 15-year-old holding a model gun, Cleveland.com reported.The incident occurred on April 1 after a 911 caller reported that a person was pointing a gun at houses. Officer Ryan Westlake...
Associated PressBONIFAY, Fla. — A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being arrested and charged with attempted murder Monday,...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1DELAND, Fla. — DeLand city officials have implemented a policy to stop the recording of private citizens and public officers within the lobby of the DeLand Police Department, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.The DeLand City Commission unanimously approved the measure, aiming to protect...
By Jeff Goldman, Eric Conklinnj.comGALLOWAY, N.J. — A 30-year-old man who ran out of a house and stabbed a police officer in the face with a pocket knife on Sunday night has been charged with attempted murder and other offenses, authorities said.Officers showed up at...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1GRANTSVILLE, Utah — A video of Grantsville Officer Cory Cooper chasing and successfully capturing a runaway pig has gone viral, FOX News reported.The video shows Cooper cornering the pig on the driveway, darting back and forth to prevent the pig from fleeing. Eventually,...
