Traffic Stop
Court rules that troopers had independent lawful bases to stop a defendant for a traffic violation and investigate drug trafficking based on collective knowledge doctrine
The court noted probable cause “is not a high bar: It requires only the kind of fair probability on which reasonable and prudent people, not legal technicians, act.”
Use your discretion and consider the situation from the driver’s perspective when you can and when appropriate
Preliminary statistics issued Monday show that 51 officers were killed on duty in 2014, compared to 27 the year before
Officers were shot to death during an evening traffic stop turned violent
Officer ordered suspect to show her hands multiple times before she abruptly exited the car with a loaded .380-caliber pistol
Michael Sollitt Kinney was pursued in July 2013 for driving erratically — at one point nearly slamming into an oncoming vehicle before crashing
Biomedical engineering graduate students hope to market their roadside testing device to states where marijuana use has been legalized
Michael T. Martin had faced a maximum of a year in jail if convicted of the class A misdemeanor of official oppression
Supreme Court said police may not extend a traffic stop to seek evidence of crimes unrelated to the offense that prompted initial stop
Officials have released surveillance video capturing the sudden attack on a Boston officer as he approached a vehicle
Video shows the man fatally shot by a police officer get out of his car and then run away during a traffic stop
“A mother’s job is not easy and neither is a police officer’s”
Man says was innocent and trying to protect himself, while police counter he refused to pull over, resisted arrest and threatened them
Family’s attorney believes gas inside the vehicle was ignited by the ECD, causing the deadly explosion
Attorney says officer acted in self-defense, and he warned the case could cause cops to hesitate in high-pressure situations
‘You & The Police’ offers tips about what to do when encountering cops during a traffic stop, at a house, during an arrest and in other situations
Suspect member of a “vicious” local gang who survived a drive-by shooting last year
One firefighter head-butted an officer after being stopped for running a red light; the other kicked an officer’s leg when he was restrained at a bar
12-year veteran was wounded in the neck and hip and is expected to survive
A two-officer patrol car stopped a vehicle when shots were fired in their direction
Officer shot over the weekend in a gunfight with a suspected gang member is recovering at home with his family
Officers found the plastic sour cream container during a search of his car, and the driver acknowledged that the pot belonged to him
Incident erupted into a gun battle between officers and at least one man Saturday
Woman was alone in a vehicle in western Pennsylvania when she shot herself as troopers approached her Tuesday
Brother of Cleveland’s police chief has been killed and the girlfriend suspected in his death shot herself when troopers stopped her vehicle
Deputy commissioner called the actions of the suspect “very unusual” and “very menacing and threatening”
“Nothing on that video suggests that we were violating anyone’s rights. That’s what makes it even more perplexing to me”
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