By Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden and Julie Watson Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of...
By Brian RokosThe Press-EnterpriseRIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — A Riverside County sheriff’s motorcycle deputy died in an on-duty traffic collision on the 91 Freeway in Riverside on Wednesday, Jan. 8, Sheriff Chad Bianco said.“With immense sadness & a heavy heart, I must report that the Riverside...
Associated PressSEATTLE — Seattle’s interim police chief said Monday that she has fired a police officer who in 2023 struck and killed a graduate student from India while responding to an overdose call.Interim police chief Sue Rahr, in an email to employees, said she fired...
ByBrian NiemietzNew York Daily NewsTwo former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers are accused of leaving a shooting victim to die because their shift was about to end.Footage obtained by Missouri station KMOV First Alert 4 appears to show then-Officers Austin Fraser and Ty Warren searching...
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Newly released body camera footage and 911 audio reveal the events leading to Greenville County deputies fatally shooting a woman who threatened deputies with a knife after telling dispatchers she was going to do “something stupid,” the Post and Courier reported.Officers found...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Video shows a man experiencing a mental health crisis holding his brother at gunpoint before he was fatally shot by Fort Lauderdale police officers, according to a department news release.The Dec. 11 incident began when police responded to multiple calls from...
PRESS RELEASELAKE MARY, Fla. — CentralSquare Technologies, a leading provider of public sector software, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the operating assets of Blueline AI, an artificial intelligence-based platform that augments routine tasks, such as body-worn camera transcriptions, police...
PRESS RELEASESAN FRANCISCO — DJI, the global leader in civil drones and creative camera technology, today introduces the DJI Matrice 4 Series as the company’s new compact flagship enterprise drone series. Launching with the Matrice 4T and Matrice 4E, these new intelligent multi-sensor compact drones...
By Police1 StaffSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Mission Critical Partners (MCP) recently held its first PSAP Roundtable, a virtual event attended by officials from public-safety answering points (PSAPs), to discuss personnel challenges and to exchange ideas, strategies and tactics for resolving them.The 911 community has suffered...
By Jillian KramerThe Times-Picayune | The New Orleans AdvocateNEW ORLEANS — Len Davis, a notoriously corrupt New Orleans police officer whose federal death sentence for the 1994 murder of Kim Groves was commuted last month to life in prison by President Joe Biden, is asking...