Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Supreme Court Takes Up Case on Liability When Police Provoke Violence
Dec 6 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Los Angeles County and two police officers must pay a $4 million award to a couple shot during a search for someone else. The case, which comes at a time of heightened...
Rhode Island Man Who Streamed Drive, Crashed Had Suspended License
Dec 5 2016 // Police say a Rhode Island man who streamed himself on Facebook Live driving 114 mph before crashing into a garbage truck and a concrete barrier was driving with a suspended license. State police say 20-year-old Onasi...
Police Sergeant in Massachusetts Gets Jail Term in Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 5 2016 // A Massachusetts police sergeant has been sentenced to serve half a year in a county jail after he was convicted of lying about an on-duty accident and accepting insurance money for a bogus injury. A jury convicted Hingham...
Tennessee Bus Driver Likely to Plead Not Guilty in Fatal Crash
Nov 30 2016 // The driver in a Chattanooga, Tenn., school bus crash last week that killed six children will likely plead not guilty to related charges, according to his lawyer. Defense attorney Amanda Dunn said she anticipates...
Ohio Police Officers Raid Wrong House, Couple Sues
Nov 23 2016 // An Ohio couple has sued police after officers raided their home only to say later that they had the wrong suspect. The lawsuit says officers from the Orwell police department along with county sheriff deputies illegally...
Security Measures to be Reviewed After Panic at New York’s JFK Airport
Nov 23 2016 // Poor communication among police, private security and other personnel contributed to a mass panic that erupted at a New York City airport when loud cheers for Usain Bolt somehow led to a false report of gunshots, according...
Guilty Plea in Post-Katrina Shooting Cover Up Opens Way for Civil Suits Against Police
Nov 7 2016 // A former police sergeant has admitted that he helped cover up the fatal police shootings of two people in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina, ending a criminal case that roiled the New Orleans Police Department...
Family Awarded $3M in 2011 Ferguson Stun Gun Death Case
Nov 7 2016 // A federal jury has awarded $3 million to the family of a naked, unarmed black man who died in 2011 after police in Ferguson used a stun gun on him. Jason Moore’s mother, wife and son alleged in the lawsuit that the...
Auditor: Kentucky Misused Funds from State Insurance Tax
Nov 7 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
Maryland School Bus Driver Killed in Crash Had Traffic Violation History
Nov 4 2016 // The Baltimore school bus driver who died along with five others in a collision with a commuter bus was found at fault in three traffic-related cases in the last eight years, according to civil and criminal court records...
Florida Police Union Says Officers With Zika Entitled to Workers’ Comp
Nov 4 2016 // Police union officials want Florida lawmakers to extend workers’ compensation to first responders with Zika. Florida Fraternal Order of Police President Bobby Jenkins said Tuesday that emergency responders should be...
Few Citations Issued in Year One of Oklahoma’s Texting and Driving Ban
Nov 3 2016 // Tulsa, Okla., police say a modest number of citations have been issued in the first year after Oklahoma banned texting and driving. The Tulsa World reports 75 citations were issued by the police department between Nov. 1,...
Virginia Police Urge Caution When Making Post Hurricane Matthew Repairs
Oct 17 2016 // Virginia State Police are urging residents to be cautious as they repair their homes and vehicles that suffered damage during Hurricane Matthew. Officials with the State Police Insurance Fraud say residents should check...
Using Big Data to Predict Terrorist Acts Amid Privacy Concerns
Oct 13 2016 // Before Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York and New Jersey, he bought bomb-making materials on eBay, linked to jihad-related videos from his public social-media account and was looked into by law enforcement agents,...
Lawsuit over Police Tactics in Ferguson Protests Dismissed
Oct 5 2016 // A federal judge has tossed out a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown. U.S. District...
Massachusetts Town Settles with Family of Man Killed by Police for $3.75M
Oct 3 2016 // The town of Framingham, Mass., has reached a $3.75 million settlement with the family of a grandfather accidentally shot and killed by police during a 2011 drug raid. The town announced Wednesday that the settlement with...
Tesla Says Autpilot Not at Fault in Crash with Bus in Germany
Oct 3 2016 // A Tesla Motors Inc. car operating under Autopilot collided with a bus in northern Germany, but the electric car maker said a collision was unavoidable because the bus swerved into the vehicle’s lane. The incident...
Auditor Says Kentucky Misused State Insurance Tax Funds
Oct 3 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
Louisiana Police Jury Sues Travelers in Effort to Recover Stolen Money
Oct 3 2016 // The Rapides Parish Police Jury has hired a law firm to try to recover money they say was stolen from the District Attorney’s Office by an employee. The police jury, which is the governing authority for the parish,...
Former South Dakota Police Chief Found Guilty in Murder-for-Insurance Case
Sep 28 2016 // A Gregory County jury on Sept. 26 found a former South Dakota police chief guilty of first degree murder in the death of his pregnant fiancee in 2009. Prosecutors accused Russell Bertram, 64, of killing 26-year-old Leonila...
