Edged Weapons
The Edged Weapons topic covers news, tips, tactics and equipment officers need to defend against blade attacks. Whether it’s a butcher knife or a pocket knife, police officers face the threat of an edged weapon attack more often than a firearm.
Police officers need to have a good utility knife on their person to use as a cutting tool for a variety of situations
Incident began when State Patrol received multiple 911 calls about a tan pickup stopped in the center lanes of the bridge
New videos show negotiations with officers attempting to get James Boyd to leave his campground slowly deteriorated over the course of three hours
The brunt of the stab was taken by the officer’s body armor
12-year-old girl narrowly survived being stabbed 19 times
The O.J. Simpson murder trial cast a harsh light on police and forensic work, and gave law enforcement a textbook example of what not to do
Recently released convict was charged in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and critical wounding of a 7-year-old girl in an elevator
Girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please a mythological creature they learned about online
Woman who approached an officer from behind and used a knife to cut his throat has been acquitted by a jury of an attempted murder charge
Disorderly conduct charge was dropped and the assault charge was reduced to a misdemeanor under terms of a plea agreement for the 2010 incident
An 89-year-old storeowner used a golf club to fight-off a robbery suspect who was armed with a sword Sunday morning
Officers were dispatched to an intersection where the man was stopping and screaming at cars
The man jumped on a firetruck as paramedics responded to a 911 call of a stabbed person
The bizarre incident occurred on May 13
The knife-wielding man was attacking a woman when the good Samaritan stepped in to help late Thursday and was stabbed
Cell phone video capturing a deadly encounter between Salinas officers and a suspect wielding a pair of shears has gone viral
Officer was stabbed multiple times while attempting to rescue the teen’s grandparents Monday
The incident was the fourth police-involved shooting in the city in a week
Orville “Moe” Fleming was arrested after a detective spotted him boarding a public bus
Man charged Tuesday after he allegedly brandished an ice pick at an officer and threatened to stab him with it
Caller reported he had been assaulted by his roommate who has mental health issues
Within the span of a few critical minutes, a convergence of skill, tourniquets and the victims’ own fortitude saved the life of a University of Minnesota student
Video captures the fatal Nov. 4 shooting of a suspect holding a knife after officers deploy a TASER multiple times
The man who stabbed 2 officers Thursday had schizophrenia and had been contacted numerous times in the past by police
A Dane County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a man who had stabbed two other deputies during a disturbance Thursday
As NYPD officers responded to the scene, spectators grew in number and about 100 additional officers were called to the scene
Sheriff’s officials say a Good Samaritan suffered fatal stab wounds while chasing a thief who allegedly stabbed a woman and stole her purse
Police received a call Wednesday about a man reportedly on meth acting strangely in front of a 7-Eleven
A K-9 is recovering after a standoff with a burglary suspect that left the dog with multiple stab wounds
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