Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Number of Vermont Road Deaths Doubled So Far This Year
Jun 10 2016 // Vermont State Police are launching a summer-long campaign to crack down on speeding and aggressive driving. The effort comes as traffic fatalities year-to-date have more than doubled over last year. State police say...
How Zoo Emergency Response Teams Handle Dangerous Animals
Jun 10 2016 // When a 400-pound gorilla grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo, the sharpshooter who killed the ape wasn’t from the police. Instead, the shooter was a specially trained zoo staffer on one of the many...
Judge Rules Against Ex-Louisiana Police Chief in Sex Assault Case; Town’s Liability Uncertain
Jun 8 2016 // A small community in Louisiana disbanded its troubled police force more than a year ago, but the town hasn’t shaken a scandal that fueled the department’s collapse and ousted its elected police chief. A federal...
Spike in Metal Theft Still Rattles Illinois Task Force
Jun 6 2016 // Illinois lawmakers have convened a task force to investigate a spike in the theft of recyclable metals. There was a spike in thefts a few years ago when the price of copper and other recyclable metals rose. Copper wiring...
Pennsylvania’s York County Sees Sharp Rise in Roadside Deaths
Jun 2 2016 // Nita Stout of York, Pennsylvania, was known in some parts of Lewisberry as “the walker.” It was what the Bangladeshi mother of four boys liked to do, usually in the mornings. She did it for exercise and as a...
Mississippi Stepping Up Police Patrols, Checkpoints Through June 5
Jun 2 2016 // Wherever you travel in South Mississippi throughout this week, chances are you will see safety checkpoints or officers pulling over motorists. Police, deputies and state troopers across the Coast are making a unified...
New York Police to Step Up Enforcement Over Memorial Day Weekend
May 27 2016 // The New York State Police and local law enforcement statewide will be stepping up patrols to combat drunk and impaired driving this Memorial Day weekend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. Memorial Day is one of the...
Massachusetts Emergency Workers Responding to More Opioid Overdoses
May 26 2016 // It all starts with a $20 to $30 purchase. That’s the average street price of heroin today, according to Framingham, Massachusetts, Police. But if that one purchase is a bad batch, too strong, or if the user injects...
Investigators: Fraud Schemes Rampant Among Houston Tow Truck Drivers
May 25 2016 // Houston is a bad place to have to have your vehicle towed, according to law enforcement officials and insurance investigators. There have multiple reports of vehicles being towed and towing services charging victims...
Massachusetts Police Wrote 6,131 Tickets for Texting While Driving in 2015
May 20 2016 // Massachusetts state data show that the number of people getting ticketed by police for texting while driving in Massachusetts has steadily increased since it became illegal six years ago. The state Transportation...
Gun Maker, Ex-California Policeman Settle Suit Over Shooting by Child
May 13 2016 // The Glock gun company has settled a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who was shot and paralyzed by his 3-year-old son. City News Service says attorneys for Glock and former Officer Enrique Chavez told a...
Police Make 2 Arrests in Most Recent Kentucky Home Burglary, Fire
May 13 2016 // Kentucky State Police say two people have been charged in connection to a home burglary and arson that occurred in Madison County. Police say 38-year-old John C. Roth of Nicholasville was arrested Tuesday and charged with...
Wisconsin Appeals Court: Police Can Release Full Accident Reports
May 12 2016 // A Wisconsin state appeals court says police can release full accident reports without violating federal law but must black out information taken directly from driver records in incident reports. The decision stems from a...
Police Investigate 6th Home Burglary, Arson in Central Kentucky
May 12 2016 // A house north of Richmond has become the sixth home in Central Kentucky that state police think were recently burglarized and then set on fire. Trooper Robert Purdy told news outlets that a Madison County home received a...
Kentucky Police Investigate Connection Between Home Burglaries, Fires
May 5 2016 // Kentucky State Police say they are investigating three house fires that occurred after the homes were burglarized. Police said in a statement that they think the cases are related and believe the blazes are the result of...
Vandal Causes $400K in Damage at South Dakota Construction Site
May 3 2016 // Police in Sioux Falls, S.D., are looking for the vandal who damaged construction equipment to the tune of $400,000. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the vandal was able to turn on a backhoe and tipped over a pickup truck,...
Police in Nevada Ticket 75 Distracted Drivers During 3-Week Blitz
Apr 29 2016 // Henderson, Nev., police say officers looking for distracted drivers during a three-week enforcement blitz ticketed 75 motorists for infractions like texting, checking emails, accessing the Internet or talking on...
Maine Police Step Up Distracted Driving Enforcement
Apr 21 2016 // The Augusta, Maine, Police Department says officers in the state’s capital city will be more focused on cracking down on distracted driving from now until September. Sgt. Christian Behr says extra patrols dedicated...
Bangladeshi Investigators Identify 20 Foreign Suspects in Cyber Bank Heist
Apr 18 2016 // Bangladeshi investigators have identified 20 foreigners – 12 Philippine nationals and eight Sri Lankans – suspected to have been involved in the cyber heist of tens of millions of dollars from its central bank,...
U.S. Lags Belgium, France, Other Nations in Domestic Security
Apr 18 2016 // The U.S. is less capable of managing security issues within its borders than 32 other nations, including France and Belgium, according to a new global ranking. Singapore is the most capable of maintaining domestic security...
