Roseville PD officers will now have a mental wellness counselor available to them 24/7; the change follows an incident where an officer was shot by a barricaded gunman
Officers were on the scene due to suicide hotline calls and to keep the man away from his young son; as a state trooper tried to move the boy away from the scene, the man struck her in the head
St. Louis County deputies returned fire, fatally wounding the driver, who initially fled a traffic stop
After being handcuffed, the driver told Westminster Police officers, “My kids are in the trunk,” leading to the discovery of three children inside
Commenters joked about fake crimes to get the Burbank Police officer’s attention and claimed to be lost pets in need of rescue
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