Legal
The Legal topic page on Police1 is a must-read for any officer, at any agency, who wants to stay up-to-date on the latest news. Every trial, verdict and court decision that has to do with cops will be covered on this page.
Philadelphia officers had removed a vehicle’s passenger for safety concerns during a traffic stop and found a loaded pistol
The court rules on a case questioning whether officers were prolonging the traffic stop for the purpose of conducting a dog sniff
The trial is a good reminder of the three things police forget about investigations
The LEO claims when she reported discrimination and sexual harassment, she faced retaliation and a request from a city administrator to resign or be fired
A jury awarded each officer more than $4 million for reprisals they faced from reporting sexual harassment on behalf of a coworker
The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the judges and officers who oversaw the case of the man who fatally shot the LEO in 2017
The courts have been issuing important rulings that influence the way these tools are used by police
The trooper will serve two months in prison as well as three months of home detention for embezzlement
The man’s family agreed to settle its civil lawsuit with the money going towards his three children
The city agreed to pay $20M to the family of Justine Damond days after the cop who fatally shot her was found guilty
The inmate, who was found guilty of shooting two LEOs, killing one of them, says his constitutional rights were violated at trial
The governor says the bill is an injustice to the family of a police officer who was killed by a death row inmate in 2006
The trial placed the PD’s policies under a microscope, questioning whether LEOs are too quick to use lethal force
The officer was indicted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide for the September shooting
The complaint cites several cases of victims not coming to court in fear of getting arrested for being in the U.S. illegally
The LEO alleged Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was negligent for organizing and leading the Baton Rouge protestors to illegally block a public highway
Nouman Raja was the first Florida LEO in nearly 30 years to be convicted and sentenced for an on-duty shooting
From 2008 to 2017, more than half a million LEOs were assaulted—most by people using personal weapons. This trend points toward the need for safer contact and interview techniques
County has agreed to pay $100K to a corrections technician who sued after a co-worker pinned up the flag
Officer Kevin Valencia remains in a coma following the encounter
A lawyer claims officials failed to follow security protocol and order a lockdown that may have saved the lives of children and staff
The man is serving a life sentence for the slaying of Officer Daniel Faulkner during a traffic stop in 1981
The debate over how to safely reduce police use of force in California must be grounded in facts, not driven by emotion
The app’s police-tracking feature notifies drivers of any nearby law enforcement vehicles and patrol activity
Israel said DeSantis overstepped his authority and interfered with the public’s right to determine their elected official
Assembly Bill 392 is a difficult web to untangle
Weld County is one many Colorado counties to have declared itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County”
The former chief sued the city for discrimination, claiming she was fired because she was a woman
Attorneys asked a federal judge to grant a new trail to the drug lord, saying jurors improperly followed media coverage of the case
A California company that sells mail-order firearms is being sued by New Jersey’s attorney general
A second lawsuit has been filed against Illinois police for issuing a firearm license to the convicted felon who killed five people at a warehouse last month
Suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel filed the suit earlier this month, saying the governor improperly ousted him for political reasons
Conn. Supreme Court ruled Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre