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We must re-evaluate how law enforcement approaches serving search warrants involving child pornography
If a prisoner is transitioned from one officer to the next, it’s always appropriate to re-search the prisoner
Case reviews nonconsensual police entry into a private residence to arrest an occupant
The officer grabbed the 2-year-old from the bathtub, took her into the living room and started performing CPR; The girl also had two stab wounds
“Joseph Williams has taken away my purpose in life; therefore he deserves to spend the rest of his natural life in prison,” Officer Vail said
An officer kicked open a locked door and found a woman holding a toddler underwater in the bathtub
Detectives had developed a case where it was found the suspect was selling hundreds of thousands of stolen items on the internet
Officer Mark Christopher Wagner II was killed during a struggle with the suspect over his department-issued handgun
The Chicago Police Board voted to fire Sgt. Alex Wolinski for multiple rules violations and “failure of leadership” in the raid at the apartment of Anjanette Young
Euclid police said the 18-year-old suspect pointed the gun at two officers; in the BWC video, the suspect denies holding a weapon
Four bystanders jumped in to help the officer get the suspect handcuffed until Rostraver police arrived to help
Three civilians jumped in as the suspect put up a fight during an arrest. He “continued to scream, yell, kick and spit at other responding officers”
The woman continued to fight deputies until she was back inside the airport. The woman bit one deputy on the thigh and kicked two others
Raul Meza was previously convicted of murdering an 8-year-old girl. He was released in 2016 and “murder[ed] a lady soon afterwards,” Meza told Detective Reed
Tony Peralta told police he decided to come forward because “his heart hurts” and that he thought about it every day
Officer Christopher Eric Ewing was remembered as ‘the voice you wanted to hear when you needed help’
One deputy was injured when the suspect put his car in reverse at a traffic stop and “intentionally” rammed a detective’s patrol car
Three bystanders, including the suspect’s father, helped the deputy wrestle the hit-and-run suspect to the ground so he could be arrested
Sgt. Michael Kunovich was attempting to arrest a suspect for nearly seven minutes; he later collapsed once the suspect was disarmed and arrested
The deputy recognized the fellow grocery shopper from a wanted poster; he called 911 and joined deputies in tracking down the man
The officer clung to the roof of the car during a pursuit, which ended shortly after the officer fell when the suspect drove through a ditch, breaking his back
While an attempted break-in suspect was hiding near the store, he used a rideshare app to pick him up, Wichita police said
“Ya’ll almost had (me) the other day. You gotta be quicker than that,” the suspect wrote from his own Facebook account
Police said the man smashed the driver’s side window of a locked patrol car that had police K-9 Logan inside
Prosecutors said Stanley Donahue robbed two employees at a store and confined them in a cooler before shooting Linn County Deputy Will Halverson seven times
“The dog was given to an acquaintance of the driver to take care of while the party was in jail. The dog does not face any charges and was let go with just a warning”
There were multiple attempts to deploy stop sticks to disable the vehicle, but the attempts failed, the sheriff’s office said
A Cameron officer was wounded and transported to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries
St. Cloud Chief Douglas Goerke apologized to the victim’s family saying, “I have no tolerance for officers who harm our community or violate its trust”
The suspects, including a 16-year-old, drove around committing several robberies before they came upon Officer Aréanah Preston, still in her uniform after work
Areanah Preston, 24, was killed outside her home on Saturday after finishing her shift in the CPD’s Calumet District
Gov. Brian Kemp said the bill is empowered to curb “far-left prosecutors” who are “making our communities less safe”
Prosecutors sought at least 20 years in prison for the former student who stabbed the officer in the neck with a barbecue fork multiple times