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In 2021 the Supreme Court affirmed long-standing truisms that protect the home and that qualified immunity review is not a shield against unconstitutional conduct
Not mentioned by the court, but the officer’s immediate shooting response justified because he was facing the “deadly reactionary gap”
The county is considering fighting the law that bars police in many cases from turning over suspects to federal agents for deportation
AG Jeff Landry’s announcement comes nearly 11 months after the Justice Department ruled out federal criminal charges in Alton Sterling’s 2016 death
Stephon Clark’s death has been at the center of controversy and protests in the last week
Officer Daryle Holloway was killed as he was transporting Travis Boys to jail after an earlier arrest
Deputy Jacob Shaw can be heard on body camera footage apologizing to Andy Grimm and saying he believed his camera was a weapon
Janelle Monroy was sentenced for helping her husband, Luis Bracamontes, as he killed two California deputies in 2014
Authorities said Quentin Smith fatally shot Officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli on Feb. 10
John Russell Hall is accused of killing Pikeville Police Officer Scotty Hamilton
The trial of Noor Salman, the widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman, is in its fifth day of testimony in Orlando
Officer Mohamed Noor has turned himself in on murder and manslaughter charges related to the July shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond
The Willoughby Hills PD released the dashboard camera video hours after Timmothy S. Schmidt pleaded guilty to shooting two officers
Herman Bell killed Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in 1971 after luring the officers into an ambush
A Utah man who pleaded guilty to nearly slicing an officer’s ear off alleges police used “brutal, violent” force against him
Police initially discounted a report by Denise Huskins and her boyfriend that a masked intruder drugged them in their home and then kidnapped her
Herman Bell was imprisoned for the 1971 killings of officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones
The three men face possible death sentences after a jury convicted them of first-degree murder for ambushing and killing Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Tephford
Travis Boys, who smuggled excrement into a courtroom and smeared it on his face, will stand trial in the 2015 shooting of Officer Daryl Holloway
A Florida court will determine whether police are allowed to use facial recognition software to identify suspects without ever notifying them of the technology
A four-time felon accused of killing Cmdr. Paul Bauer has been formally indicted on more than 50 counts of murder, gun and other felony charges
The DA said a detective was “wholly justified” in killing Brandon Wiley, who fatally shot Sgt. Shawn Anderson
The legislature approved a bill that will change a state law that makes it difficult to criminally charge LEOs who might have inappropriately killed someone
The decision bucks an unprecedented call by Chief Charlie Beck to prosecute one of his own for a deadly, on-duty shooting
Anthony Baumgardt said he was not sorry for killing Deputy Jacob Pickett
Make sure you can articulate circumstances that establish the number of officers executing a warrant is “objectively reasonable”
The balance courts strike is to evaluate any police use or show of force as to whether it was objectively reasonable
Seven judges on the Court of Appeals called the emergency meeting to correct what they called an “honest mistake”
At issue is the legal standard necessary for convicting an officer of a criminal offense tied to his or her use of deadly force
Anthony Borges and Kyle Laman were among the 16 wounded in the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead
Prosecutors said Officer Eden Medina reasonably believed the teen posed a deadly threat and used “reasonable force”
The city of Aurora and its former records manager could be held legally responsible for endangering officers by mailing their personnel files to a prisoner
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