Legal
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The Court held, “the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person doesn’t submit and isn’t subdued”
Did incident circumstances, including the concept of inattentional blindness, result in an officer’s inability to see the suspect drop his gun?
A seizure occurs when officers employ “physical force” or a “show of authority” that “in some way restrains the liberty” of the person
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he will press legislators to provide 59,000 Texas patrol officers with bulletproof vests capable of stopping high-caliber rounds
The City Council was voting on a contract that included more pay for officers and raised questions about the future use of body cameras
Know your legal options when hate speech or threats are posted on your police department’s social feeds
The judge said the protesters “failed to present any credible evidence that any of the actions taken by these individuals were taken with malice or were committed in bad faith”
Both the House and Senate voted to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers
Under a new bill, law enforcement officers must lock up their guns left in unattended vehicles or face fines of $1,000
A judge likely will force Charlotte’s mayor to release all videos of the fatal OIS of Keith Lamont Scott before a new law takes effect
The woman’s lawsuit says a deputy shot her with an ECD, then apologized with a cake that said, “Sorry I Tased You”
The telephone death threats to the home of Officer Dominique Perez began soon after he and an Albuquerque police detective ended a hillside standoff by opening fire
Not every state that mandates body cameras allocates the funding for it, and the hefty price tag is just one of many hurdles that agencies can face
President Obama rejected a bill that would have allowed the 9/11 victims’’ families to sue the Saudi Arabian government, arguing it undermined national security
Prosecutors have filed first-degree manslaughter charges against Officer Betty Shelby
The police department is in its first year of reforms
Bills being introduced in nearly a dozen cities will aim to force police departments to disclose the surveillance technologies they use
A frame-by-frame breakdown of police helmet video from the March 2014 shooting was shown to jurors Monday on the first day of the trial
Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, president of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation and a 17-year law enforcement veteran, filed the amended complaint in federal court Friday
Latta Police Chief Crystal Moore’s lawyer said she was fired in retaliation for getting an outside agency to investigate a sexual harassment complaint
Carmen Ojeda was rushing to the hospital when she told an officer who pulled her over her daughter needed CPR, but he didn’t know how to perform it
SWAT teams should keep a watchful eye on the future in order to prepare for the worst
The plan would raise the median salary of state officers by about $8,000 and would require four additional hours of annual training
Currently, the law requires proof the officer acted with ‘malice’ and without ‘good faith,’ but Initiative 873 would remove those from the law
The requirement calls for names of all officers at the scene to be released to the public within 48 hours of a fatal shooting or incident
Trooper Alex Douglass plans to sue suspect Eric Frein and his family after he and another officer were shot exiting barracks in 2014
The legislation gives victims’ families the right to sue the Saudi government for any role they may have played in the 9/11 attacks
Kratom, currently sold as a health supplement, is often used by individuals as an alternative to heroin
It is no longer just the threat to officers’ lives that must be evaluated in high-speed pursuits but also the threat the fleeing driver poses to civilians
Jim and Doug discuss how anti-gun legislation may affect officers and former cops
The new Policing Strategies Working Group is examining excessive force used by police, attacks on law enforcement officers and overall public safety issues
The bill would have blocked the public release of recordings depicting the deaths of officers unless authorized by their families
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