Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Louisiana Town Still Without Police Chief, Liability Insurance
Apr 17 2014 // Efforts to revitalize the Sorrento Police Department in Louisiana seem to be stagnating while the police chief’s position sits vacant and the days pass without anyone actively seeking liability insurance for the...
Louisiana Truck-Bus Crash Caused by Texting, State Police Say
Apr 16 2014 // Texting while driving is thought to be cause of an accident in Louisiana involving a Calcasieu Parish school bus and a pickup truck that sent one student and the bus driver to the hospital. State Police Sgt. James Anderson...
Use of Cellphone Tracking Device in Michigan County Questioned
Apr 11 2014 // Oakland County commissioners asked no questions last March before unanimously approving a cellphone tracking device so powerful it was used by the military to fight terrorists. Now, though, some privacy advocates question...
Austin Cracking Down on Drunk-Driving Police Officers, Staff
Apr 11 2014 // Officers and support staff who drive drunk face dismissal in a stricter DWI policy applying to those who enforce the law, Austin, Texas, police Chief Art Acevedo said. Acevedo announced the updated policy to the...
Police Seek Suspects in Rash of Vehicle Fires in Fort Worth
Apr 9 2014 // At least nine vehicles have been set on fire in a North Texas neighborhood and police are seeking clues to those responsible for the fiery vandalism. Fort Worth police on April 7 announced the search for suspects in the...
Lawsuits May Cause Small Michigan Village to Lose Insurance
Apr 1 2014 // A small village in Michigan’s Saginaw County is facing the prospect of losing its insurance coverage following issues including a number of lawsuits against its officials and police chief. The lawsuits and mounting...
Dallas Settles Police Abuse Case for $1.1M
Mar 28 2014 // The Dallas City Council has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit with a man who claimed he was unfairly beaten by a police officer and unjustly jailed for 15 months. The Dallas Morning News reports the city...
Workers’ Compensation Fraud and the Insurance Producer
Mar 24 2014 // There are essentially two types of workers’ compensation fraud — premium fraud and claimant fraud — and insurance producers can play a role in the discovery and resolution of both, according to one investigator...
Ex-St. Louis Officer Awarded $7.5M in Sexual Harassment Suit
Mar 24 2014 // A jury awarded a $7.5 million judgment to a former St. Louis police officer who claimed her supervising sergeant sexually harassed her and that she suffered retaliation for complaining. Tanisha Ross-Paige won $300,000 in...
2 Florida Police Officers Charged with Boat Arson, Insurance Fraud
Mar 20 2014 // Florida state law enforcement officials announced they arrested a police officer and another man for allegedly conspiring to defraud an insurer by purposely destroying a pleasure boat. The Florida Department of Law...
Virginia Police Responded to More Than 350 Wrecks After Latest Winter Storm
Mar 19 2014 // Virginia State Police say troopers have responded to more than 350 wrecks since a winter storm hit the state. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says troopers also responded to 228 disabled vehicles between 12:01 a.m....
Former Oklahoma Police Officer Sentenced in Auto Insurance Scam
Mar 17 2014 // A former police officer has been sentenced to serve 10 days of weekend imprisonment and three years of supervised probation in an auto insurance fraud case, according to Sanford C. Coats, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
Duke Lacrosse Players Trying to Settle Suit with Police
Mar 17 2014 // Three former Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of raping a stripper eight years ago are trying to settle their lawsuit over how Durham police handled the case. The Herald-Sun of Durham reported that lawyers...
Conn. Legislators Propose Workers’ Comp Coverage for Mental Trauma
Mar 13 2014 // The Newtown, Conn., Police officer who has not yet returned to work since the 2012 school massacre because of post-traumatic stress disorder urged Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday to expand the state’s workers’...
Malaysian Military Tracked Missing Jetliner Turn to Strait of Malacca
Mar 11 2014 // Malaysia’s military believes it tracked a missing jetliner by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a military...
Minority Bar Owners in Racine, Wisconsin Say City Leaders Discriminated
Feb 28 2014 // Eight former bar owners in Racine, Wis., filed a lawsuit accusing the mayor and other city officials of racially discriminating against them and forcing their businesses to close. The federal lawsuit filed against Mayor...
Tennessee Court Says Police May Still Arrest Drivers Who Pass Sobriety Test
Feb 25 2014 // Police may still have grounds to arrest people for DUI even if they pass field sobriety tests, the Tennessee Supreme Court said in a ruling. The decision involved a Sevier County man whose driving under the influence (DUI...
Officials Investigating Deadly Carbon Monoxide Leak at N.Y. Mall
Feb 24 2014 // Officials investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a New York mall are concentrating on the heating system of a restaurant there. A manager at Legal Sea Foods restaurant died and more than two dozen others were sent to...
Predicting Crime with Big Data Without Breaking the Bank
Feb 20 2014 // Researchers at Rutgers’ School of Criminal Justice have developed commercial technology that public safety practitioners and researchers worldwide are using to fight crime. Leslie Kennedy and Joel Caplan of Rutgers...
Chief of Uninsured Louisiana Police Department Retires Amid Federal Probe
Feb 12 2014 // The police chief of a Louisiana town that has been struggling to find liability insurance for its police department abruptly retired on Feb. 7 after federal charges were filed in a bill of information accusing him of lying...
