Officer-Involved Shootings
Police1’s officer-involved shootings resource page provides law enforcement professionals with timely news, expert analysis, and practical training insights related to deadly force incidents. Explore breaking updates on officer shootings nationwide, legal developments, use-of-force policies, and tactical lessons learned. Our coverage includes commentary from law enforcement leaders, attorneys, and trainers to help officers and agencies prepare for, respond to, and recover from critical incidents. Whether you are a patrol officer, supervisor, or command staff, Police1 delivers trusted resources to support informed decision-making, enhance officer safety, and improve community trust in law enforcement.
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When then exposed to a simulated gunbattle, the mental imagers consistently out-performed the others, whose targeting skills under fire tended to erode significantly from their “normal” level of accuracy
Subjects seeking to be deceptive overwhelmingly prefer closed-ended questions that let them get by with abbreviated statements whereas truthful individuals will mine their memories for the truth
Police told Abdullahi “Abdi” Mohamed to drop his weapon multiple times
The players were invited to test out the firearms training simulator after expressing concerns about officer-involved shootings
A state civil rights and wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against Fontana and its police department
The legislature wants tougher penalties for highway marchers and potentially putting some demonstrators on the hook for the enforcement costs at unruly protests
Authorities said the suspect shot himself in the chest after threatening for hours to jump off a bridge
A suspect is charged with killing a western Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy in October and endangering the safety of several other officers as they were arresting him
Officers shot the suspect after he allegedly attacked police who were responding to a restraining order violation
Police said the gunman fired on another person near a busy intersection
A student’s painting that divided members of Congress has been removed from its Capitol Hill display
The detective was a father of four and 18-year veteran of the department
Detective Jerry Walker died Tuesday night at a Denton hospital hours after the shooting
Loyd has been the focus of a weeklong manhunt since Master Sgt. Debra Clayton was killed in a Wal-Mart parking lot
Deputy 1st Class Warren Scott Hogan had been hospitalized since the Dec. 29th shooting
Officers arriving at the townhouse heard gunshots inside and saw smoke coming from its third floor
The man who shot and severely beat an Arizona state trooper last week was a former member of the Mexican federal police who was in the country illegally
Lynch strongly defended the DOJ’s aggressive intervention in local law enforcement during the Obama administration
The creation of the unit was a result of a DOJ study that recommended departmental reforms focused on the use of deadly force by police officers
A painting on Capitol Hill will be taken down after the agency responsible for maintaining the complex determined it violated rules for a student arts competition
The report released Friday alleges that institutional CPD problems have led to serious civil rights violations, including racial bias and a tendency to use excessive force
House Speaker Paul Ryan said the painting is “not befitting the Capitol”
The ruling grants public access to footage from the June shooting of Rodney Rodriguez Smith
The fictional drama “Shots Fired” looks at a case of a black officer fatally shooting a white teen
The trooper suffered non-life threatening injuries
The camera starts rolling when the weapon is drawn
Deputy Michael Hockett suffered non-life threatening injuries after he was shot while performing a welfare check
An appeals court tossed out a law that banned grand juries from determining whether officers involved in fatal shootings should face criminal charges
The suspect hit a K-9 and damaged a squad car hood with the chain