Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Indiana City to Pay $1.7 Million in Deadly Police Chase Crash
Sep 15 2022 // The city of Evansville, Indiana has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a woman’s lawsuit stemming from a 2017 police chase crash that killed her two children and her husband and left her seriously injured. The...
Jury: Omaha Police Chief Retaliated Against Former Captain
Sep 14 2022 // A former Omaha police captain has prevailed in her lawsuit against Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer and the city, having sued over allegations that the chief failed to promote her in retaliation for filing a...
Connecticut Police Investigate Death of Man Days After Stun Gun Shot by Trooper
Sep 7 2022 // Connecticut state police are investigating a man’s death four days after a state trooper shot him with a stun gun, authorities said Friday. Ryan Marzi, 38, of Hebron, died unexpectedly in his sleep on Aug. 28,...
Maryland County Settles Lawsuit Over Police Encounter With 5-Year-Old
Aug 30 2022 // Officials say Maryland’s Montgomery County has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit that grew from an encounter between a 5-year-old boy and two police officers at East Silver Spring Elementary School. The...
Uvalde School District, Texas Law Enforcement Could Face $27 Billion Lawsuit
Aug 24 2022 // Uvalde school district and a litany of law enforcement agencies could face $27 billion class-action lawsuit over shooting which was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that...
St. Louis Police Face Closer Scrutiny Under New Oversight Plan
Aug 24 2022 // Eight years after Michael Brown’s death pushed the St. Louis region front and center into the national debate over police accountability, the city’s elected officials and its police associations are at odds...
New Orleans Officials Seek to End Federal Oversight of Police
Aug 19 2022 // New Orleans officials asked a federal judge Tuesday to end court-supervised oversight of its police department under a pact negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department a decade ago, after deadly police shootings of...
Iowa Council Member Countersues Police Officers over Protest Arrest
Aug 19 2022 // A Des Moines council member is countersuing two police officers who took the unusual step earlier this year of suing several people who participated in a 2020 protest following a Minneapolis officer’s killing of...
Maryland Family Sues Police Over Fatal Shooting at Maryland Home
Aug 18 2022 // The family of a Maryland man fatally shot by a police officer filed a federal civil right lawsuit Monday against the department and individual officers. Dyonta Quarles Jr. was shot Jan. 30 when Anne Arundel County officers...
Massachusetts City Claims Ex-Employee Shut Down Police Website
Aug 16 2022 // Officials in a Boston suburb are investigating a former city employee they say shut down the police website during a pay dispute. Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said the former employee, who was the police department...
Partial Legal Settlement Over 2018 Killing of Maryland Teen Targets Police Reforms
Aug 12 2022 // Family members of Anton Black and the Coalition for Justice for Anton Black announced they have resolved part of their federal court litigation charging police and municipal officials in three Maryland communities with the...
Providence Police Seek to Fire Officer After Video Shows Excess Force
Aug 11 2022 // A Rhode Island police department is seeking to fire an officer after video showed him smashing a handcuffed man’s face into the pavement during a fireworks celebration on Fourth of July weekend. The Providence Police...
Gabby Petito’s Family Plans to File Utah Lawsuit Alleging Police Failed Her
Aug 9 2022 // Gabby Petito’s family this week notified Utah officials of plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that police failed to recognize their daughter was in a life-threatening situation last year when officers...
Massachusetts Police Sued Over Wrongful Arrest Deny Racial Profiling Claim
Aug 9 2022 // A Massachusetts police department whose officers are accused of wrongfully arresting a Black man while pursuing a white suspect said Friday that an outside investigation found no evidence of racial profiling. The town...
Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Police Alleges Wrongful Arrest of Black Man
Aug 5 2022 // A suburban Boston police officer who was pursuing a white suspect pinned a 20-year-old Black man to the ground as he was walking home and placed a knee on the man’s neck despite having no evidence that he was...
FDIC Urges Banks to Police Misleading Crypto Claims on Deposit Insurance
Aug 1 2022 // A U.S. banking regulator is urging banks dealing with cryptocurrency companies that they need to make sure customers know which of their funds will be insured by the government in case of collapse, and which have no safety...
California City Paying $1.5M to Fired Police Chief After Verdict
Jul 28 2022 // The Oakland City Council approved a $1.5 million payout for a former police chief who won her whistleblower claim against the city after she alleged she was fired for calling out unethical behavior by the civilian...
Maryland Man Died When Hit in Road After Lyft Driver Ordered Him Out of Car: Police
Jul 28 2022 // A Maryland man has died after police say his Lyft driver ordered him out of the car in the middle of a Delaware highway. Delaware State Police say the crash occurred Sunday around 2 a.m. A group of six friends ordered a...
Family of 14 Girl Shot By Los Angeles Police Files Lawsuit
Jul 28 2022 // The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store last year have filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall. Valentina Orellana...
Lawsuit: Chicago Police Misused Gunshot Detection Technology in Murder Case
Jul 25 2022 // A federal lawsuit filed last Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology and failed to pursue other leads in investigating a grandfather from the city’s South Side...
