Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Little Rock Police: Cars Stolen While Warming Up
Nov 26 2014 // Little Rock, Ark. police say a number of people have reported cars being stolen after they were started and left to warm up in cold weather. Police Lt. Scott Timmons told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that some cars were...
NYC Incurred Record $732M in Legal Costs Last Fiscal Year
Nov 25 2014 // New York incurred a record $732 million in legal costs in the last fiscal year, mostly from claims of police abuse, negligence and hiring discrimination, expenses that accelerated under Mayor Bill de Blasio. The amount...
Michigan Town OKs Liability Insurance, Reinstates Police Department
Nov 24 2014 // Newly sworn-in trustees in Oakley, Mich., are reinstating the village’s police department after its shutdown in September. The Saginaw News reports the village council voted 3-2 to re-establish the police force. It...
Alabama Rejects $1M Claim by Parents of Slain Auburn University Student
Nov 14 2014 // An Alabama state board this week rejected a $1 million claim filed by the parents of a slain Auburn University student, who said their daughter might still be alive if the university had maintained its own police force at...
Hypothetically, Here’s How to Respond to a Data Breach
Nov 13 2014 // How an organization responds within 72 hours of a data breach can be critical. Take the case of GlobalMart, a hypothetical Boston-based international company that has had a hypothetically horrendous 2014, ricocheting from...
Mississippi Police Wrongful Firing Case Revived by U.S. High Court
Nov 13 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by two Shelby, Mississippi, police officers who said they were fired for refusing to ignore an alderman’s criminal activity. The ruling...
Georgia City Police Settles for $1M Over Stun Gun Death
Nov 9 2014 // Attorneys say an Atlanta-area city has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of a man who died after police officers used stun guns on him. Chris Stewart, a lawyer for the family of Gregory Towns Jr., said the city of...
Drunk Driver Crashes into Texas Police Cars, Barely Misses Officer
Nov 7 2014 // Galveston police have arrested a man who they say crashed into two police cars while driving drunk. KHOU-TV reports 66-year-old Raymond Oakley nearly struck a Galveston police officer who was working at the scene of an...
Fire at Historic Arkansas Police Substation Thought to Be Suspicious
Nov 5 2014 // Sherwood, Ark., authorities are investigating a weekend fire at the historic Roundtop Filling Station, built in 1936 and known for its inverted-cone-shaped roof. Sherwood police spokesman Lt. Jamie Michaels told the...
Fireman: Trucker ‘Zombie’-Like After Fatal Bus Crash
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on...
Connecticut Police Officer Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 20 2014 // A former New London, Connecticut, police officer fired over accusations he leaked an internal police document and later rehired has resigned following his arrest on charges he fraudulently collected workers’...
Police Nab 316 Distracted Drivers on Phones in Dover, Delaware
Oct 16 2014 // Police in Dover, Delaware, have doled out more than 300 tickets to distracted drivers for texting and talking on their cell phones. The 316 tickets were part of a 12-day blitz that ended Sunday, Oct. 12, and eclipse the...
Without Liability Insurance, Louisiana Town May Pay Parish for Police Services
Oct 9 2014 // The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana has proposed charging the town of Sorrento $353,832 for the first year with a possible increase of up to 5 percent the next year to provide policing services if...
Tuscaloosa Police Warn Uber Drivers
Oct 8 2014 // City officials in Tuscaloosa say they’ve informed representatives of the Uber ridesharing service that drivers will soon face arrest unless the company complies with the city’s demands. Tuscaloosa police Sgt....
Moore, Oklahoma Sued by Family of Man Who Died in Struggle with Police
Oct 7 2014 // The family of a man who died after a struggle with police outside of a Moore movie theater in February has filed a claim against the city. The Oklahoman reports that Luis Rodriguez’s family filed a tort claim against...
West Virginia’s Small City Balks at Restriction on Radar Use
Oct 1 2014 // Benwood, West Virginia Police Chief Frank Longwell is calling for changes to a state law regarding radar after his city lost state funding for speed enforcement. The law doesn’t allow police in Class IV...
Mississippi Police Departments Revise Policies on Suspect Chases
Sep 30 2014 // Columbus Police Chief Tony Carleton has rewritten the department’s pursuit policy to allow shift supervisors to decide if officers are to chase a suspect if he flees. Previously, officers were instructed not to chase...
Police: Fired Oklahoma Man Beheads Co-Worker, Attacks Another
Sep 28 2014 // A man who was shot after authorities say he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and was interviewed by detectives on...
Cuomo Says Terror Threat Spurs Higher Security Presence in N.Y. Region
Sep 24 2014 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the metropolitan area remains under threat of terrorist attack, and that commuters will see an increased security presence in the city and at transit points as a result. Cuomo and New...
Insurance Secured, Michigan Village Police Department Operating Again
Sep 16 2014 // Police in a small village in Michigan’s Saginaw County have resumed patrols after securing liability insurance. Oakley Police Chief Robert Reznick obtained the insurance and reinstated patrols over the weekend. The...
