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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The dashcam video of the murder of Constable Darrell Lunsford on January 23, 1991, became an essential officer safety training tool
How video evidence, officer tactics and political reaction shaped public perception before the investigation was complete
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
The suspect eventually jumped out of the vehicle and ran with a gun in his hand and aimed it at officers
Officer Bradley Durst, 29, was shot twice — one shot through the neck and another that entered through the right lower abdomen
The robbers hogtied victims as they robbed a shop for car parts before engaging in a gun battle with police
K-9 unit Officer Jeff Dorn is recovering from leg wounds and his police dog Mick was fatally shot Wednesday
An Oregon officer was shot and a K-9 was killed after a suspect with a rifle opened fire during a traffic stop
The deputy returned fire but missed the suspect, who fled in a vehicle
A Wis. deputy died Monday, after succumbing to complications stemming from a gunshot wound he received in a shootout with a suspect in 1991
Suspect had stopped working and sleeping, and had begun talking to imaginary people
A suspected bank robber died in a hail of bullets during a midday shootout Monday
Officer Brendan Zeimet was shot by 30-year-old Aaron Edward Scott on April 1 as he approached the suspect’s vehicle
A man who tried to run over officers after a motel robbery was shot to death by police
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
Two separate shootings last year involving 4 officers were ruled justified
New Bern’s mayor and other officials were strongly chastised Tuesday for their actions following the March 28 shooting incident that led to the death of an officer
An officer suffered multiple gunshot wounds while responding to a domestic disturbance late Thursday night
John Winkler, 30, an aspiring television producer, died at a hospital
After more than a year of reviewing hundreds of cases handled by the APD, the DOJ found that officers too frequently used deadly force on people
Police have had to escort people off Idaho Officer Tarek Hassani’s property since the shooting
Suspect had been licensed to work as a security guard and to carry a firearm, and had even once applied to become a Los Angeles police officer
Official pointed to an OIS the commission recently adjudicated, noting recordings of the incident were extremely poor in quality because the car’s antenna had been tampered with
Robert Huntsman will soon serve as the department’s fourth deputy chief, a position announced last week as a way to help implement findings of a comprehensive DOJ investigation into APD
A man from upstate New York State led NM state police on an 8-minute chase in the wrong direction on Interstate 25
A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot a burglary suspect dead in a confrontation Monday afternoon
A gunman walked into a Los Angeles Police Department station lobby Monday night and opened fire, wounding one officer in an exchange of gunfire
One of the protesters shot video of the confrontation between protesters and officers and posted it on YouTube
Demonstrators, many of them retired police and their families, held signs reading “I support” over the APD’s logo
The officers were responding to shots fired when they saw the man
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