Calling for a transformation in a state where officers fatally shot more than 120 people in each of the last three years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that requires officers to avoid deadly force and only shoot when “necessary.”
Read moreDozens of people, mostly African Americans, huddled around tables scattered across a church gymnasium on a recent evening, discussing past run-ins with Phoenix police officers and ways to hold them accountable.
Read moreA California judge on Friday tentatively overturned Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s decision to reinstate an officer fired for domestic violence, but a final ruling is expected next week.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia opened a press conference Thursday on the shooting that wounded six police officers by laying blame for the carnage at the feet of city’s Democratic district attorney.
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A second U.K. police officer was exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent used in last year’s attack on a former Russian spy in the English city Salisbury, British detectives said Thursday.
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An hours-long standoff in which a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home ended with no fatalities early Thursday.
Read moreAt least one gunman opened fire on police Wednesday as they were serving a drug warrant in a Philadelphia neighborhood, wounding six officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the evening, including a potential hostage situation, authorities said.
Read moreCiting a string of disturbing incidents, a federal judge refused to dismiss a black officer’s racial discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims against the Lackawanna County Sheriff’s Office.
Read moreThe families of two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash during a 2017 white nationalist rally sued the state, claiming it did not properly maintain the chopper that abruptly slammed into the ground and burst into flames.
Read moreIn an update on the investigation into a mass shooting that left nine people dead in Dayton, Ohio, the city’s police department said Tuesday that the deceased gunman had an “obsession with violence and violent ideations.”
Read moreThe Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that police officers unlawfully searched a man after smelling marijuana in his car and observing a joint in the center console. The officers did not have probable cause to believe the man was in possession of a criminal amount of marijuana, and possession of less than 10 grams of pot is a civil – not an arrestable – offense.
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Portland police are mobilizing to prevent clashes between out-of-state far-right groups planning a rally here and the homegrown antifascists who oppose them, as America’s culture wars seep into this progressive haven.
Read moreAn attorney for a mentally ill black man who was tied to a rope by officers on horseback gave police in Galveston, Texas, an ultimatum Monday: Release body-cam footage or the man’s supporters will lead a march through the city next month.
Read moreA federal judge denied New York police officers a retrial of the excessive-force lawsuit they lost after arresting a doctor over a parking ticket, because they fabricated evidence; the doctor may accept $200,000 in damages or ask for a retrial on damages only.
Read moreA district court improperly dismissed an officer’s negligence claim against the organizer of a 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The officer alleges the organizer led demonstrators onto a highway and provoked an altercation between police and protestors, causing the officer’s injuries.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately release law enforcement grants to Oregon without conditioning the money on its demand that the state violate voter-approved sanctuary laws by handing undocumented immigrants over to the Department of Homeland Security.
Read moreA man claims in a federal complaint that Pennsylvania state troopers punched and kicked him in his own home, broke two teeth, critically damaged his eye, and called his wife “a fucking liar” for telling them he was recovering from open-heart surgery and that the two marijuana plants they found in the back yard were to assist his wife with her back pain.
Read moreFinding no Bivens cause of action for fabrication of evidence, the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of civil rights claims against Texas police and FBI agents from a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial on drug charges, of which a jury cleared him.
Read moreImplementing an ordinance that came into effect a month ago, police officers are working Wednesday to tell seated Italians and tourists to get up from one of the Eternal City’s most famous and photographed spots.
Read moreA federal court in Ohio ruled that a woman who was raped by a police officer may pursue her civil rights and deliberate indifference claims against the Village of Phillipsburg and its police chief. The police chief was aware of the officer’s history of misconduct before he attacked the woman while on-duty.
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