Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Delaware County, Police Seek Dismissal of Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jun 8 2023 // Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule in their favor in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The family of Lymond Moses is...
Children Rescued from Burning Car While Florida Mom was Shoplifting, Police Say
Jun 7 2023 // Shoppers at a Florida mall managed to pull two children out of a burning car after their mother left them alone while she shoplifted, police said. The vehicle caught fire May 26 outside the Oviedo Mall, just northeast of...
Massachusetts City Faces Lawsuit Alleging Police Misconduct at George Floyd Protest
Jun 6 2023 // Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a June 2020 protest in Massachusetts’ second-largest city over the killing of George...
Vermont City Reaches Settlement Over Police Use of Force
Jun 5 2023 // The Vermont city of Burlington announced Friday that it has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shoved by a police officer, fell backward and hit his head on a wall, knocking him...
Police Departments Now Offering Steering-Wheel Locks for Vulnerable Kias, Hyundais
May 30 2023 // While dealers and manufacturers are dealing with the sharp rise in thefts of Kia and Hyundai automobiles, police departments around the South and Midwest have begun offering free steering-wheel locks for owners of the...
No Way to Police All Cryptocurrency Fraud, CFTC Commissioner Says
May 25 2023 // A top U.S. regulator said on Tuesday there is no way to police all cryptocurrency fraud because there is so much, though her agency is working on several big cases. Christy Goldsmith Romero, one of five commissioners at...
Minneapolis to Pay $700K Settlement With Family Members Detained While Police Killed Their Father
May 24 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a $700,000 settlement with family members who were locked inside two squad cars when police killed their father after officers refused their offers to try and...
Questions Raised Over Virginia State Police Being Allowed to Investigate Itself
May 23 2023 // Late last year, with the Virginia State Police under scrutiny after authorities said a former trooper kidnapped a 15-year-old California girl and killed three members of her family, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced he had...
Police Seeks Witnesses to Crash That Killed 4 When SUV Rear-Ended Tractor-Trailer
May 16 2023 // Connecticut state police are seeking witnesses as investigators try to determine the cause of a crash that killed four people on Interstate 95 in Stamford. All four victims were in an SUV that rear-ended a tractor-trailer...
California Paying $24M for Man’s Death in Police Custody
May 12 2023 // California will pay a $24 million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in police custody after screaming “I can’t breathe” as multiple officers restrained him while trying to take a...
Soldier Denied New Trial to Sue Police Over Violent Stop
May 8 2023 // A U.S. Army soldier won’t get a new trial for his lawsuit against two police officers after he was pepper- sprayed, struck and handcuffed during a traffic stop in rural Virginia, a federal judge has ruled. Video of...
Ransomware Attack Brings Down Dallas Police, Court Websites
May 5 2023 // DALLAS (AP) – Dallas was hit with a computer ransomware attack Wednesday that brought down its Police Department and City Hall websites and caused some jury trials to be canceled, officials said. The outage...
Connecticut High Court Affirms Ruling Denying State Troopers’ PTSD Claims
Apr 25 2023 // Two state troopers who were struck by a car on an interstate exit ramp cannot collect damages for post traumatic stress disorder, but one of them can recover more money because his trial court award was improperly reduced...
Virginia Family Reaches $5M Settlement Over Park Police Shooting
Apr 24 2023 // The family of a northern Virginia man fatally shot by U. S. Park Police officers has reached a $5 million settlement in its civil lawsuit against the government. Two officers shot 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar of McLean in...
Plaintiffs ‘Shocked’ as Judge Ends Hartford Police Consent Decree Imposed in 1973
Apr 20 2023 // A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, Connecticut, despite continued concerns the department still has not hired enough minority officers to reflect the city’s large Black...
Police Say No Known Threats to Boston Marathon on 10th Anniversary of Bombing
Apr 17 2023 // There are no known threats to this year’s Boston Marathon, but on the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed three spectators, federal, state and city law enforcement leaders said Thursday that they...
Two New Jersey Police Chiefs Facing Charges
Apr 14 2023 // New Jersey authorities on Wednesday arrested a small-town police chief, charging him with sexually assaulting subordinates over more than a decade, while also announcing misconduct charges against another police chief who...
Robot Dog. Stolen Car Tracker. Security Cone. New York Police Go High-Tech
Apr 14 2023 // New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices, which also include a...
For Arrested Ringleader, Stealing Catalytic Converters Is Full-Time Job, Police Say
Apr 13 2023 // Seven members of an organized theft crew were arrested yesterday and charged in connection with stealing catalytic converters from more than 470 vehicles in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For the alleged ringleader,...
Suspect in Arson Fire at Los Angeles Police Station Arrested
Apr 11 2023 // A woman was arrested after she pushed a burning shopping cart into a Los Angeles police station, damaging the lobby, authorities said. Mishauna Eaton, 30, was arrested on suspicion of arson and was being held on $250,000...
