Pursuit
In an era of indictments, terminations and heightened scrutiny, officers must constantly weigh the need for apprehension against the risks to themselves, the public and their profession
Officers can release police dogs on violent, fleeing suspects – but if a warning is feasible, skipping it can be a problem
Man and his teen niece were found dead with gunshot wounds after a wild pursuit across the Southwest in which multiple shots were fired at police
Thomas Johnson III had been charged with fatally shooting Officer Daryl Pierson on Sept. 3
Officer ordered suspect to show her hands multiple times before she abruptly exited the car with a loaded .380-caliber pistol
“Although the Mason County deputy advised Mason County radio dispatch that the spike strips had been deployed, the (deputy and the trooper) were unaware of this action”
Charged in the deaths of two unarmed people in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire at the end of a chaotic 2012 pursuit
Reporter stated he saw police officers chase a fleeing man and that an officer had fired and hit the suspect
Fleeing from police is not, by itself, illegal in America, but courts have set a different standard for places where street crime is common
The suspect stole a TV before evading police, crashing into a squad and eventually driving into a ditch
8-minute pursuit started when an airport police officer tried to stop a car with its bumper dragging
A man who fired a gun inside a bar and later fired at two police officers chasing him on foot was fatally shot by other officers
San Jose’s top cop tackled a murder suspect who managed to escape a police holding cell and scale a fence while handcuffed
Settlement to avoid a lawsuit in incident captured on video
Brother of a woman killed in a hail of police gunfire after a 2012 pursuit has been charged with disorderly conduct after reportedly making a death threat
DPS maintains the occasional use of firearms from vehicles continues to be necessary because of the high-risk work it performs
William Ramirez was driving to his boat-maintenance job Tuesday morning when he spotted a cop on the ground, trying to take cover as a man fired at him
Suspecting that the man was reaching for a weapon, both officers opened fire multiple times, killing him
29-year-old Frantzy Armand stole a cruiser and opened fire on cops
A sheriff’s deputy who can be heard in a video cursing at a suspect who later died was unaware that a volunteer deputy had shot the man
Suspect was shot and wounded after opening fire on an officer with a rifle and leading police on a pursuit
Robert Bates, an insurance executive who was volunteering on an undercover operation in Tulsa, accidentally shot Eric Harris on April 2
Officer thought he was holding a stun gun, not his handgun, when he fired at 44-year-old Eric Harris
April 2 shooting occurred after convicted felon Eric Courtney Harris sold a 9mm pistol to undercover officers during a sting and fled
Witnesses who were riding a cable car saw the black sedan go airborne, and the windshield was badly damaged
Ronald Anderson kidnapped his girlfriend before fatally shooting a Census Bureau guard and fleeing police
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Friday that the video “disturbed and troubled” him and appeared to show an excessive use of force
Suspect led police on multiple pursuits, stealing vehicles whenever police used stopped sticks on whatever car he was in
Sheriff’s statement said Francis Pusok fled from deputies early in the afternoon as they tried to serve a search warrant in an identity-theft investigation
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