By Robert MoranThe Philadelphia InquirerPHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court voted 4-3 last week to uphold Philadelphia’s ordinance prohibiting the manufacturing and assembling of 3D-printed gun parts used to create “ghost guns.”The majority decision of the appellate court filed Friday said that Philadelphia’s ordinance, as amended...
By Julia GuilbeauThe Times-Picayune | The New Orleans AdvocateBATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Legislature convened this week for a special session called by Gov. Jeff Landry in an effort to implement new tough-on crime policies.The bills lawmakers approve are likely to drastically reshape the...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1ATLANTA, Ga. — A suspect who fled from Atlanta Police officers following a traffic stop was arrested on a plane nearly a month later, FOX 5 reported.The same officers who initially pulled over Dorian Burley, 39, arrested him when his plane landed in...
By Paul WalshStar TribuneMINNEAPOLIS — Shannon Cortez Gooden fired more than 100 rounds at police and first responders without warning during a predawn standoff in a Burnsville neighborhood that left two officers and a paramedic dead, state investigators disclosed Thursday.That disclosure and other details came...
By Alex DerosierPioneer PressMINNEAPOLIS — After an early hiccup in the committee process, a bill aimed at clarifying the types of force police officers can use on students in schools is back on track in the Minnesota Legislature.Members of the House Public Safety Committee on...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. — A person suspected of carjacking a tractor-trailer rig and fleeing police has been arrested, FOX 11 reported.Police responded to a call on Feb. 22 from a trucker reporting that his tractor-trailer was taken from a gas station, according...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Hundreds of officers who participated in a training conference in 2021 will be required to attend an event to be retrained after the training content was found to be inappropriate, Northjersey.com reported.Street Cop Training, the company responsible for the...
By Alysa Guffey, Sarah Macaraeg and Zareen SyedChicago TribuneCHICAGO — The Chicago Board of Education unanimously voted on Thursday to terminate its $10.3 million school resource officer program in Chicago Public Schools and order schools to remove uniformed police officers before the 2024-25 school year...
By Colleen SlevinAssociated PressDENVER — A former Colorado police officer is appealing his conviction by a jury for his role in the death of Eljiah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb in 2019.Lawyers for Randy...
PRESS RELEASELEESBURG, Va. — Omnilert, a leader in active shooter solutions, today announced the release of its third generation AI visual gun detection system, featuring significant advancements designed to further advance the industry’s most effective gun detection system. As the only solution to deliver a...
