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WASHINGTON (AP) — The police officers who patrol America's colleges are empowered these days to do far more than respond to campus emergencies. Campus police around the country are increasingly expanding their jurisdiction beyond the school and
You heard it right, gun grabbers. The recent shooting in Colorado at Arapahoe High School happened to have a Deputy Sheriff on school grounds who was working as a school resource officer, according to a CNN report.
There is a sheriff in Michigan arming and swearing in civilians in order to fight the Feds. This is where America is heading
With only a couple weeks to go, 2013 is shaping up to be the safest year for police officers since the 1950s. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 97 police officers have died on the job so far this year.
"Knock and announce" police raids are on the rise. They are estimated to occur as many as 40,000 – 50,000 per year. Back in the 1970s, military-style police raids used to be a rare event, occurring only a few hundred times per year.
Police are now saying the shot that killed an unarmed Ohio woman during a botched drug raid was purely accidental–and the officer who fired the shot didn’t even know that his gun had gone off.
Krystal Barrows, a 35-year-old mother of three, was resting on the couch in her living room in Chillicothe, Ohio when her life was needlessly brought to a violent end by a police officer during a narcotics raid. Barrows was not a suspect.
Somewhere, there is probably a “Wounded Heroes in Blue” roster that pays tribute to former New Jersey police officer Christopher Onesti, who retired on disability in 2006 following an on-duty incident in which he injured the ring finger of his left h
Hard cases make bad laws. Policymakers' overly punitive and police-centric response to high profile school shootings demonstrate this fact. But if you have doubts, ask the six-year-old child who was handcuffed to a chair as punishment after he
When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines.
An Albuquerque man suffered severe burns to his knees and buttocks after a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy forced him to kneel and sit on hot asphalt for nearly half an hour, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit.
In the moments after Georgia cops body slammed a 70-year-old woman to the pavement, leaving her with a bloodied face, another cop stood in front of a man with a camera, telling him he was somehow invading the woman’s privacy by recording.
“Senior Cpl. Amy Wilburn” of Dallas’ Murderous Mercenaries-sorry, Police Dept. shot a 19-year-old guy suspected of car-jacking who already had his hands above his head. Why? Because “Officer Wilburn perceived [her victim] to be an imminent threat
Welcome back — your badge was your ticket out…. Erick Gelhaus, the Sonoma County, California Sheriff’s Deputy who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, has returned to “duty.”
Police chiefs and sheriffs may want to ask themselves—if after hiring officers in the spirit of adventure, who have been exposed to action oriented police dramas since their youth, and sending them to an academy patterned after a military boot camp,
Surveillance footage taken by a system Mr. Cobb installed to prevent trouble at his house would have exonerated him, but Mr. Truong refused to review it. The footage was "mysteriously wiped clean" while Mr. Cobb was in custody, according to the compl
Virginia State Police are offering an opportunity for every motorist and every pedestrian in the Commonwealth to be “eyes and ears” for suspicious or criminal activity. A new app, available for most smartphones, encourages citizens to either directly
As he watched a video of a homeless man being beaten by Fullerton police officers, a former FBI agent and use-of-force expert testified Monday that striking a suspect in the head with an impact weapon is considered deadly force and is not acceptable
The four grand jury indictments unsealed Monday and one criminal complaint allege that deputies beat jail inmates and visitors without justification, unjustly detained people and conspired to obstruct a federal investigation into misconduct at the Me
Local police are increasingly able to scoop up large amounts of cellphone data using new technologies, including cell tower dumps and secret mobile devices known as Stingrays. Here's a closer look at how police do it.
The police officer arrested for refusing to remove his “Anonymous” mask at an anti-Obamacare rally gave an interview to Red Pill Philosophy and WeAreChange in which he said that “there’s a war coming” and “it’s time to fight.”
“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” the witness said. “He emptied the gun on him…. Boom, boom, boom. Six shots — five or six.”
Police officer dismissed after shooting at minivan with five children inside.
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to SPACE.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Bratton inherits a department under intense scrutiny for its use of stop and frisk, a policing tactic he has utilized in every stop in his career. One of stop and frisk's most vocal critics, Mayor-elect de Blasio, is the man who appointed him
There are some criminals who end up in jail for stealing millions of dollars in jewels, and then there are this week's criminals, whose crimes include a 5-cent theft ... and giving away $1,000.
On Wednesday July 6th, activists, concerned citizens and local media gathered at Lake Eola to witness the ongoing battle between Food Not Bombs and a City of Orlando Ordinance criminalizing charity in public parks.
There are no depths to which the State will not descend when trying to whitewash its crimes: an unarmed man at whom cops shot is now charged with wounding the women these inept marksmen hit instead.
While the president’s strident warnings about privately owned guns evoked a hallelujah media chorus, his administration is scorning a MANDATE to track how many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents.
In Iceland, police are mourning the unprecedented shooting death of a suspect. In the US, police are scandalized by the unfamiliar spectacle of an officer using non-lethal means to subdue and arrest an emotionally unstable man who appeared
