Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Virginia Jury Rejects Woman’s Claims Against Four Police Officers Over Sex Ring
Jan 24 2023 // ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury on Friday rejected a woman’s allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her. The eight-person...
Protestor Killed After Shooting Trooper at Georgia Police Training Center Named
Jan 24 2023 // Investigators on Thursday released the identity of the person who was shot and killed by law enforcement officers who were trying to clear protesters camping at the site of a planned Atlanta-area public safety training...
Police Investigate Central Illinois Planned Parenthood Fire As Arson
Jan 20 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections. Officers responded to a...
Jury Mostly Backs Virginia Police Sued by Army Officer Over Traffic Stop
Jan 19 2023 // A federal jury in Virginia on Tuesday found mostly in favor of two police officers who were sued by a U.S. Army lieutenant after he was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed during a traffic stop. Video of the 2020...
Louisiana Police Arrest Tx. Public Adjuster Accused of Pocketing Clients’ Checks
Jan 17 2023 // Louisiana State Police arrested a Texas public adjuster for allegedly pocketing $592,000 from settlement checks that were intended for seven former clients by forging the homeowners’ signatures. Andrew Joseph...
5 Connecticut Officers Plead Not Guilty in Police Van Paralysis Case
Jan 17 2023 // Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard. The...
Trial Set for Black Army Officer Suing Police Over Violent Traffic Stop in Virginia
Jan 11 2023 // A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia, but never arrested, will argue to a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally...
Quebec’s French-First Law Stokes Alarm in Business Community Over Language Police
Jan 3 2023 // Businesses in Quebec are looking at all the usual hurdles as they plan for next year: Inflation, supply chains, employee turnover. And then there’s the language police. It’s too soon to know how the Office...
Court Asked to Enforce $3 Million Settlement of Suit Over Virginia Police Shooting
Jan 3 2023 // VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Several parties to a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black man on the Virginia Beach oceanfront last year have asked a judge to enforce the $3 million settlement...
Baltimore Police Say Carjackers Targeting Rideshare Drivers
Dec 23 2022 // Police in Baltimore are investigating dozens of rideshare carjackings and robberies over the past month but have seen more cases despite several arrests, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Wednesday. In many cases,...
Virginia Beach Settles With Lynch Family Over Police Shooting
Dec 16 2022 // The city of Virginia Beach will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit from the family of a Black man who was shot by police during a chaotic night of violence on the city’s oceanfront last year. The city and the family...
8 Hurt in Fire at New York Police Evidence Warehouse
Dec 16 2022 // Eight people suffered minor injuries Tuesday in a fire at a New York Police Department warehouse that houses DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as cars, e-bikes and motor scooters, police and fire officials said. The...
Michigan Police Department Faces Discrimination Charges
Dec 15 2022 // Michigan’s civil rights watchdog announced two charges of discrimination against the Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday, further heightening scrutiny of the department following an officer’s killing of...
Fired Police Accountability Director in Idaho Files Lawsuit
Dec 15 2022 // The director of Boise’s police watchdog group who was put on leave earlier this month has been fired, and he has filed a lawsuit against the city. Mayor Lauren McLean’s office said the decision to place Office...
Parents of Gunman in Deadly Pennsylvania State Trooper Shooting Settle Suit
Dec 6 2022 // The parents of a gunman who killed a Pennsylvania state trooper and permanently disabled another eight years ago in an ambush of a police barracks have settled a lawsuit that accused them of partial responsibility for the...
Gunmaker Sig Sauer Faces Suit by Police, Veterans, Others Vowing Gun Goes Off by Itself
Dec 5 2022 // Police and federal law enforcement officers are among 20 people from multiple states saying they were wounded by a popular type of Sig Sauer pistol, the latest lawsuit alleging that the gun is susceptible to going off...
Police: 4 Dead at Oklahoma Pot Farm Were ‘Executed,’ Chinese Citizens
Nov 28 2022 // LACEY, Okla. (AP) – Police have identified a suspect in the slayings of four people at an Oklahoma marijuana farm but said they aren’t releasing a name because doing so could put more people in danger. Authorities...
Wife of Man Killed by Police on Arizona Settles Suit for $8M
Nov 28 2022 // The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has agreed to settle her wrongful death lawsuit. A notice of settlement filed Tuesday in federal court in Arizona...
U.S. Opens Civil Probe of Worcester Police Over Excess Force, Racial and Gender Bias
Nov 18 2022 // Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an investigation into whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second-largest city routinely uses excessive force or discriminates against residents based on race or...
Jury Awards Massachusetts Police Detective $4M in Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
Nov 14 2022 // A jury has awarded more than $4 million to a former Massachusetts police detective who said in a lawsuit that she was subjected to demeaning and sexist comments at work and rebuked for speaking up about dangerous conduct...
