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BREAKING NEWS
“That work includes a responsibility to...listen, and to take actions that demonstrate a commitment to safety, healing, and justice,” Anchorage Mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance said
Public safety personnel were on duty at Lambeau Field to keep fans safe and secure at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Though officers would not be barred from conducting “lawful pretextual traffic stops,” CPD’s draft stressed that they “must strike a balance [with] the community’s sense of fairness”
The film’s release comes after city officials told police and fire unions they would not get raises in their new contracts because of unprecedented financial pressures
Prosecutors stated that Michele Fiore had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a fallen Las Vegas officer, but had spent some of it on surgery and her daughter’s wedding
U.S. District Judge William Orrick wrote that defendants are barred “from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze or condition federal funds” for the time being
City officials, who disagreed over certain elements of the lawsuit, say they plan to refile it with changes
Port Authority Police Officer Tore McCarthy, who survived late-stage colon cancer, graduated from the agency’s emergency services academy
DJ, who has battled cancer since 2018, was sworn into more than 200 law enforcement agencies during a single ceremony in Berkeley, Missouri
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
Public reaction has been swift, but the incident will be assessed under federal use-of-force standards, vehicle threat analysis and Supreme Court precedent — not political pressure or hindsight
A veteran officer’s perspective on perception, movement and survival when a vehicle accelerates toward police
From political violence and immigration enforcement to shifting criminal justice policy, 2025 forced local law enforcement to absorb the consequences of national decisions — regardless of ideology
The Tijuana attack reveals a growing transnational threat — and the urgent need to modernize how state and local agencies acquire counter-UAS tools
Second Amendment auditors intentionally test police reactions. Here’s how officers can stay professional, protect rights and prevent encounters from escalating
Marketed as immigration reform, SB 627 does nothing to regulate ICE and instead punishes California’s local officers by removing long-standing legal protections
PRODUCT NEWS
When alerted with the technology, responders would receive the phone’s location as well as livestream video or audio
An ECD probe struck a lighter in the man’s hand
Dispatcher Stephen Smith called his girlfriend, Amanda Radican to tell her he was working an extra shift and that he had forgotten his cellphone
Alton Banks began vomiting at home after returning from a local pool on June 23
Currently, TASERs are only issued to officers with more than two years of experience
The officers have been told to drive with their windows down amid suspected carbon monoxide leaks
The Android phone was filmed restarting after an attempt to call for an emergency
Police were called after witnesses reported they saw a man pointing a handgun at passing vehicles
The BCA, which is investigating the shooting, said that it will be the job of the MPD to determine whether the officers violated the department’s body cam policy
The troopers, attempting to avoid the stop sticks, struck one another. One vehicle then struck Lt. D. Heath Meyer