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.
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Your daily and ongoing responsibility is to ask yourself, what problems are lying in wait?
Jim and Doug discuss the balance between enforcing the law and falling prey to the “contempt of cop” trap some subjects will set
Mitchell died of natural causes, but his children claimed he might have been saved had services been dispatched sooner
The officer fell nine feet and fatally broke his neck while responding to a 911 call
He was questioned by the FBI for possible links to terrorist groups
Bill would require agents to cancel parking tickets on the spot if motorists show a receipt from a muni-meter with a time stamp five minutes prior to the ticket or 10 minutes after
A new breed of legal eagles called Certified Litigation Specialists are helping police agencies win civil litigation cases
The officers immediately had the car towed and impounded under the city’s “live-stop” statute, aimed at keeping illegal drivers off the streets
“I’m not going to allow people to badmouth this department unless the allegations are true”
Evidence against the molester suspect has been barred from the trial
The ACLU of Washington and 34 other community groups called for the inquiry after a Seattle officer shot and killed John T. Williams last summer
The defense is against the release, because they say it would hinder the possibility of Morris getting a fair trial
The teenager was detained for several hours last year after taking video of police on a public bus
The chief allegedly told the court the department’s video equipment did not save recordings for more than about two days
Suspected drug smuggler was attempting to flee into Mexico by climbing over a border fence when he was shot 3 times by a pursuing Border Patrol Agent
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ian Howell is charged only with dereliction of duty now that the most serious charges of negligent homicide, assault, and negligence with a boat were dropped
The impact of human factors upon individual performance must coincide with timely and fair discipline — both in a positive and a negative sense
Several cases have prompted an investigation
Judge: “If a picture speaks a thousand words, this video speaks a million”
Obama signed legislation that reduced the sentencing disparity between the two types of cocaine from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1
The video was shown to members of the media, but was not made public
“The facts required pretty much a split-second decision the officers’ part”
Prosecutors argued the defendants were ready and willing to attack Americans, but lawyers for the four men say the case should be thrown out because they were ‘entrapped’ by a paid FBI informant
When he raised the replica gun at officers, one shot him with a Taser and another shot him with his gun
Two weeks ago, prosecutors moved to dismiss various charges of disorderly conduct, obstruction and criminal mischief against the teammates
Improperly calibrated breathalyzer machines used by Philadelphia PD could jeopardize more than 1,000 DUI cases
Police are investigating at least one case of possible human trafficking involving minor girls brought into Chattanooga from the Atlanta area
The $400,000 being paid to a patron at a gay bar who was severely injured in a police raid two years ago is hoped to stave off a federal civil rights lawsuit
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