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SWAT officers face many challenges during a high-risk drug raid – here’s how trainers can set up a drug raid training drill to prepare for real-life situations
In any given year, roughly half of all police-involved shootings take place from or around vehicles – find out the steps agencies can take to harden vehicles to protect officers from attack
With the redesign of the popular less lethal tool, Axon has one primary goal – to give cops the confidence to de-escalate dangerous situations
Failure to understand the first five of these use-of-force facts could cost you your job — failure to understand the sixth could cost you your life
Even though a Fresno prosecutor has ruled most officer-involved shootings justified, the civil lawsuits have exploded
One officer creates murals as peaceful protest
Police responding to call were ambushed by shooter
Departments across the U.S. that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencies have not seen in decades
The officer was shot days later after the bombing when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was attempting to flee
After wrestling with officer during arrest, man was unresponsive and cause undetermined
New legislation limits cities’ ability to profit from traffic tickets and court fines
For the cops of my dad’s generation, witnessing today’s hostility, disrespect and general lack of public support for law enforcement is like taking a trip back in time
The order signed this week by New York’s governor obviously has the most immediate impact on law enforcers in that state, but it is a harbinger of what may happen in other states across the country
Trooper had stopped an SUV for improper license plates when a state police employee struck him
Off-duty cop stopped two men in robbery while he was shot in the chest
Officers fatally shot man after he drew back his arm as if he was going to throw the large rock he was holding
Statement by Miami police union also wagged a finger at local media that reported on the incident
Police department tries to get fallen officer from 1920 on federal, state and local memorials for line of duty deaths
The union said commanders did not want police to be percieved as aggressors, but the result was officers doing nothing
Man was behaving erratically and telling the deputy he’d been poisoned
The trainers who deliver the Below 100 message to agencies across the country are working hard to ensure fewer families have to make that life-changing trip to National Police Week in DC
Law goes into effect 90 days after lawmakers adjourn later this month
Neb. officer was killed just a day before she was to go on maternity leave
State Judge Darold McDade handed down the sentence for 18-year-old Meagan Grunwald in the January 2014 pursuit
Jaws of life were used to remove car from on top of the trooper
Shooter had an AK47-style pistol, which he reportedly fired twice at the deputy
Department arrested one of their own during investigation of the fatal shooting of another officer
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the officer’s actions after viewing the viral video
Memorial to fallen officer near the home he raised his family in
Officer Ron Arlint responded to a report of trespassing at a trailer park in April when the deadly confrontation occurred
Authorities say man managed to get his cuffed hands from behind him to the front and shoot the officer
Both were taken to Portland hospitals with injuries not considered life-threatening
