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BREAKING NEWS
Officers with the Portage Police Department and other first responders worked for more than an hour to free Matt Reum from the wreckage
The Arizona DOT traffic camera video shows unmarked police vehicles following a white sedan before one vehicle deployed the grappler, stopping the suspect
Thurston County deputies attempted to get the driver to surrender for nearly an hour before using foam bullets to break a window and deploying a K-9 into the vehicle
“I lost my daughter many years ago, and I wish she could be here,” Cincinnati PD Officer Newman said. “…There are angels looking over us…there’s an angel for you.”
“Civil forfeiture is neither intended to be criminal punishment nor is the overall scheme so punitive...that the statutes amount to criminal punishment,” Chief Justice Meagan Flynn wrote
“If you choose to run, you’ll just go to jail tired,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook, adding that criminals “can’t hide from our horsepower!”
Unions serving Utah police officers, teachers, firefighters, transit workers and other public employees will be prohibited from negotiating on their behalf
The Williams County sheriff called the incident a result of “complacency and human error” and is not taking disciplinary action against the jail staff
The Rockland Regional Youth Diversion Team aims to allow teenagers accused of crimes to formally avoid the juvenile court system so long as they change their behavior
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
What is the true cost of outfitting your police force with body-worn cameras?
Ford has offered factory-installed ballistic panels on its police car doors since 2008
The cameras will be deployed in five phases through January 2018
Police noted that enforcement of the seat belt law will also be a focus of the initiative
The windshield of the detective’s car was pierced several times by bullets, but his 14-year-old son was not harmed
The thief or thieves broke into the locked trunk of what state police say was a marked patrol car
The department used the incident to inform the public not to drink and drive
TruckVault’s custom in-vehicle storage goes far beyond theft prevention
911Signal’s X6 lighthead is slim, compact and takes up little room
Legislators have supported more police and sheriff departments using body cameras