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Of the 285 officers shot in 2019, nearly a quarter of them were policing towns with fewer than 11,000 people
Learn how Tommy, the cop behind Free Field Training on YouTube, put the vests to the test and found them capable of stopping a variety of threats
The past speaks to us, if we only listen, and teaches us critical lessons about dealing with highly mobile killers
Responding to domestic violence calls for service is one of the most volatile and dangerous situations for police officers
Officer Jose “Gil” Vega planned to retire in December and Officer Lesley Zerebny had just returned from maternity leave
Protecting your personal information in an online world is a necessary process for officer and family safety
The high-speed pursuit footage shows a Chicago police SUV collide with the car that ended with two suspects dead and four officers injured
Officials say the suspect, who was fatally shot by police, had intention to harm someone at the residence, but wasn’t shooting purposefully at officers
Rex Wilson, who was a suspect in 14 armed robberies, fled when officers tried to pull him over
Officer Douglas Bamberger was a married father of two children and a 16-year member of the force
Anthony George Jenkins-Alexie was arrested and charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Sgt. Allen Brandt
During a standoff, the suspect fired one round at the officer, but it was deflected by the ballistic vest
Chesapeake officer Aaron Christian died Tuesday from injuries received in a car crash last month
Parents as Teachers of Missouri says it’ll use lessons learned from protests that followed the fatal Ferguson OIS to help parents address the challenges of trauma
More than 22,000 London Metropolitan police officers are scheduled to have cameras by mid-2017
This product was designed to allow officers to focus on things that are hazardous to them, and leave the nonhazardous stuff to automation
Agencies must prepare now or risk playing catch up
After responding to a call and finding no trouble, officers began to leave the scene when a suspect opened fire from the street
St. Louis County Officer Blake Snyder was killed while responding to a disturbance call earlier this month
Police say a man pointed an assault rifle at two officers, but it malfunctioned and officers fired their weapons in self-defense
Suspect Demetrae Griffin allegedly assaulted an officer and threw a rock through a deputy’s vehicle
David Michael Ansberry was taken into custody in Chicago for his connection with a homemade explosive left outside Nederland Police Station
Tiara Ferebee is held on a $1M bond for shooting a plainclothes NYPD officer in the forehead last week
An officer is in serious, but stable condition after a suspect shot him then stole the officer’s patrol car
Sergeant Lou Maldonado of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spoke about how his agency changed the way its cops drive — from seatbelt use to speeds
OIS videos are shared broadly across the internet and can fuel the negative anti-police perception, even if the data isn’t there to back it up
Police say the lines symbolize the bond between communities and officers, but critics are concerned the lines could be polarizing rather than unifying
After nearly two days of deliberations — jurors agreed that Kevin Hogrefe was guilty of the October 2014 death of Deputy Yevhen Kostiuchenko while driving drunk
