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Police officers operate along a vast continuum that stretches from stepping it up to reining it in, and it’s not uncommon to oscillate between the two during an operation
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Caller reported suspect was waving a rifle in the store. Police said he didn’t obey commands to put down what turned out to be an air rifle
Officers responded to shots being fired near the Osceola Square Mall’s Ross Dress For Less store around 6:15 p.m Tuesday
Police are defending themselves against complaints they have unfairly denied residents access to their homes during the manhunt for a suspected killer
Protesters returned to Ferguson streets Tuesday night, with reports of smashed windows and possible arson coming hours after a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown burned
Eric Frein obsessively collected military memorabilia, dismissed his fellow war re-enactors as dilettantes, and took his hobby so seriously that he spoke French during a simulated Vietnam War-era interrogation
Officer was pushed at least 18-feet off a bridge Saturday after pulling over a man suspected to be driving while intoxicated
Two suspects have been charged in a hit-and-run incident that left an officer in critical condition after a traffic stop Monday
Man was killed Aug. 5 while holding an air rifle his family said he’d taken off a store shelf. Two officers responded to a call reporting a man waving a gun
Police say an officer subdued a 15-year-old Ohio high school student who came to school armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol
Gunman was killed along with two other people in the Tuesday morning gunfire
36-year-old Officer Nicholas Guerrero suffered a “very serious head injury” after he and another officer stopped a car on an arrest warrant
Until now, the Sheriff’s Department has not used in-car cameras or body cameras
Officials said the fire was apparently electrical and no foul play was suspected
Sheriff’s officials in Goshen County are touting a grenade launcher as a useful tool for keeping the peace, even though they have never used it
A police official said authorities believe they are hot on suspected cop killer’s trail
After the agent entered the parked vehicle and inspected the drugs, the suspects brandished an AK-47 and a pistol
An armed man surrendered Saturday night following an 18-hour standoff on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Authorities said Sunday they believe they are hot on the suspected cop killer’s trail
An officer was killed and eight other officers were injured after a police van crashed Sunday
A four-hour standoff between a suicidal man and police in Texas was documented online through an anonymous sharing app
Sgt. Mike Batchik and Captain Dave Brown responded to the scene of two vehicles on fire in a grocery store parking lot Monday
Officer radioed for help, but because it came at the same moment of the Travis County deputy rescue effort, there was some difficulty
Police arrested 29-year-old Charles Smith on outstanding warrants Thursday and placed him, handcuffed, in the back of a cruiser
The vehicle collided with another car and then slammed into the eatery Friday
On day 7 of a manhunt for a survivalist suspected of killing a trooper, scores of police were trying to flush him out of dense woodland
Divers found the body of a missing Central Texas sheriff’s deputy Friday, a day after her patrol car was found swamped by floodwaters
Cell phone video captured a scene of mayhem as police in New York attempted to break up a large fight between dozens of youths
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