Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Louisiana Police Video Counters Claim that LSU Star was Too Far From Fatal Wreck
Oct 10 2025 // Louisiana state police have released video evidence in a deadly 2024 car crash that authorities contend was caused by reckless driving by Kyren Lacy, a former Louisiana State University football star who took his own life...
SC Law Enforcement Says No Arson Evidence in Fire That Destroyed Judge’s Home
Oct 8 2025 // State agents have so far found no evidence that a fire that destroyed a judge’s home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set, the state’s top law enforcement official said Monday. The Saturday blaze...
California Police Pulled Over A Waymo for An Illegal U-Turn, But They Couldn’t Cite
Oct 3 2025 // Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, no one to ticket. The San Bruno Police...
Suit Against Brown University Sparks Debate on Campus Police Secrecy
Oct 2 2025 // A new lawsuit against Brown University has renewed questions surrounding the secrecy afforded many law enforcement officers employed by private colleges and universities across the U.S. Unlike public campuses, private...
Former Police Officers Convicted in Arson and Fraud Conspiracy
Sep 29 2025 // A federal jury found two former Maryland police officers guilty of wire fraud, arson and insurance and bank fraud. Philip James Dupree, of Pikesville and Mark Ross Johnson, Jr., of Camp Springs were found to have conspired...
Meta Set to Face EU Finding it Failed to Police Illegal Posts
Sep 26 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. is set to face a charge sheet from the European Union for failing to adequately police illegal content, risking fines for violating the bloc’s content moderation rulebook. The European Commission...
Lawsuit Dismissed Against Detroit Police in Facial Recognition Arrest
Sep 22 2025 // A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology. Porcha Woodruff, who was eight months...
State Police Shortage Stalls Vermont Program to Protect Highway Workers
Sep 12 2025 // Kellen Cloud’s line of work has always been dangerous. For the better part of the past two decades, Cloud has worked at Green Mountain Flagging, a company that stations traffic controllers at construction sites...
North Carolina Veterinary Hospital Explodes After Car Hits Gas Line, Police Say
Aug 21 2025 // A brand new veterinary hospital exploded Tuesday morning in North Carolina after a car crashed into a nearby gas meter, authorities said. About 20 minutes before the explosion in Wilmington, a car had run off the road and...
$3.75M to Estate of Unarmed Man Fatally Shot by Oregon Police
Aug 19 2025 // The city of Portland, Oregon, is set to pay $3.75 million to the estate of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by police in 2022 after being mistaken for an armed robbery suspect. The city settled with Immanueal...
Philadelphia Police Officer Wins Delayed Workers’ Compensation Claim for PTSD
Aug 15 2025 // A Philadelphia police officer who was severely beaten by a robbery suspect in 2017 has won his right to add a psychological injury to his already settled workers’ compensation claim for physical injuries suffered in...
CDC Shooter Believed COVID Vaccine Made Him Suicidal, Father Tells Police
Aug 12 2025 // A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for...
Louisiana to Pay $9M Settlement to Man Partially Paralyzed by State Trooper
Aug 11 2025 // Louisiana authorities have agreed to pay $9 million to a man who was partially paralyzed from the waist down after a trooper shot him in the back during a 2018 traffic stop in Baton Rouge and then falsely reported it as a...
Knife-Wielding Man Shot by Police in West Virginia Emergency Room
Aug 11 2025 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia shot and killed a knife-wielding man in a hospital emergency room after he attacked an employee early Friday, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. at...
Forceful Arrest of Student Shows Benefits of Recording Police Actions
Aug 5 2025 // A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a...
City’s Insurer to Pay $550K for Police Twice Wrongfully Arresting, Jailing Man
Jul 29 2025 // A Rhode Island city’s insurer will pay $550,000 to settle the case of a resident who was twice wrongfully arrested and jailed for a crime he did not commit. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced the...
Widow of Police Officer Who Committed Suicide Denied Workers’ Compensation
Jul 24 2025 // The widow of an East Hartford police officer who committed suicide on the job is not entitled to survivorship benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation law, a Connecticut appeals court has ruled. The...
Alabama Man’s Death Ruled a Homicide After Police Kneeled on His Neck
Jul 23 2025 // The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding...
Man Charged With Arson Over Fires That Damaged 11 NY Police Vehicles
Jul 23 2025 // A man with a history of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests was charged Monday with setting fire to 11 New York City police vehicles last month. Jakhi McCray, 21, of Brooklyn pleaded not guilty to arson in U.S. District...
Police: Florida Man Firebombed Insurance Agency, Is Linked to Competing Agency
Jul 21 2025 // A central Florida man has been charged with shooting at and throwing Molotov cocktails into an insurance agency office in Lake Wales last spring. Lake Wales Police said Jason Roberts was tracked down last week in Jasper,...
