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.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on officers’ failure to warn before shooting a suspect pointing a gun at them
Opioid settlement funding will continue for 11 to 18 years, and it is expected that more settlements will be forthcoming. Is your agency getting its share?
The officer fired after a foot pursuit when the suspect produced a gun
Local police union president Dan Hils told the Enquirer he doesn’t see how questions about lawful, private matters would be relevant
An Army staff sergeant was charged with fatally shooting his wife and a cop in Feb. 2016
The suspect reportedly described shooting cops as “what I do”
Markeith Lloyd was arrested in the killing of an Orlando officer in 2017
“We can’t have officers going through a documented injury now having to fight against the department,” one official said
Officer Matthew Stull shot a suspect who fled and refused to drop a handgun
A federal jury found former officer Justin Harris “did nothing wrong” during arrest
The lawsuit against the Phoenix PD claims police didn’t try to remove a few problematic anti-Trump protesters and instead acted violently toward peaceful demonstrators
Jonathan David Cole was initially charged with second-degree murder, reckless driving causing death and failure to stop at the scene of a crash
Boston police Capt. Robert Ciccolo gave his son up to the FBI in 2015
The incident occurred during a traffic stop when the suspect refused to hand over an illegal gun
Video shows the former LAPD officer struggling with several teens before incident
The bill would have raised the state standard for using force from “reasonable” to “necessary”
Scott Michael Allen, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to counts of armed robbery, resisting arrest
The suspect was impaired from multiple narcotics when he crawled underneath the machine after it had stopped
Driver must spend 30 days to six months in prison, plus an additional 12 months on probation
Chief was granted an indefinite stalking order in 2017 against man for “reckless, repeated unwanted contact’
Authorities previously called Detective Sean Suiter’s on-duty death a homicide
Prosecutors had sought a minimum of 60 years in prison
Get with the changing trends or risk having your eyewitness identification suppressed, or a conviction based on such identification reversed
Jurors convicted Roy Oliver on Tuesday in a Dallas County courtroom
Man allegedly shot Sgt. Scott Lunger in head, thigh during 2015 traffic stop
The ex-officer told jurors he felt he had to fire at a vehicle because he thought his partner was in danger of being run over
Court documents say cop was not in uniform, driving unmarked van when he shot a man in 2015
Proposal would cut manufacturing quotas for the six most frequently misused opioids including fentanyl, oxycodone
Some of the weapons Charles Martin Ellis, 64, allegedly sold ended up being linked to various crimes in Nev. and Calif.
The officer, who is on trial for murder, testified that he felt he had to shoot because he feared a fellow officer was in danger of being run over
NY, Hawaii, Iowa and 16 other states suing to keep blueprints offline
The court ruled that an officer’s use of deadly force was objectively reasonable because of the threat of death presented by an unarmed man
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