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Your lifesaving emergency equipment won’t work properly if you don’t maintain it
Anecdotal evidence seems to support that suicide by cop incidents are on the rise
Vigilance at every step helps officers avoid complacency and ward off prisoner escapes or assaults
Officer Daniel Webster’s body camera video that was played during trial, and three other videos, will be publicly released
Paul Ciancia was sentenced to life, plus 60 years for the 2013 attack that crippled the nation’s second-busiest airport and disrupted travel nationwide
Lt. Martin Baker takes his family life and makes it an educational experience for fellow officers
The suspect threw an open bag of heroin in the faces of the officers as he was being booked
Police ultimately took the step of asking Facebook and Instagram to deactivate the armed woman’s accounts, believing they were distracting her from negotiations
As far as investigators can tell, neither of the two deputies had withdrawn his gun
Tensions remain high in a neighborhood where an off-duty police officer fatally shot a man
Two officers suffered non-life-threatening wounds when they were hit in the face while responding to a disturbance
Paul Ciancia, the gunman who killed a federal security officer at LAX and wounded three other people, faces a mandatory life sentence in federal prison
Officer Blake Synder’s wife and family, officials and hundreds of fellow cops, gathered at the park to dedicate it to the fallen officer
In their ongoing effort to slow speeding drivers, police are getting more detailed data, allowing timely enforcement in areas where speeding poses the most danger
Karla Ramirez-Segoviano was a volunteer member of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office’s Explorer Program for about four years
Sgt. Emmanuel Kwo left the hospital Friday night after treatment for a leg wound
The organization is helping 81 families of first responders, including the families of fallen St. Louis Officer Blake Snyder and wounded Ballwin Officer Michael Flamion
Charles Lewis was arrested in a hit-and-run crash that left a Polk County deputy severely injured and a woman dead
Various charges against Davon Lymon were filed in connection with the death of Officer Daniel Webster
The suspect was fatally shot during an exchange of gunfire with the second sergeant on the scene
The NLEOMF says that ambush attacks on police officers have increased by 167 percent this year — here are some thoughts on how to win these deadly encounters
The bill blocks public officials from immediately releasing the names of officers involved in shootings
The man resisted arrest, deployed the TASER, then fled in the officer’s patrol car
Francis Cox assaulted sheriff’s deputies responding to a domestic call in July
Scott Michael Greene’s bail was set at $10 million during a brief court appearance Friday morning
Police Chief Dana Wingert called the killings of two officers a “cowardly act of calculated murder”
After the deadly ambush attack of two officers, the local community is reaching out to support officers
2016 ties with 2014 as the deadliest year for ambush-style killings of LEOs
