Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Indiana Police Officer Faces Insurance Fraud Charge
May 26 2009 // A St. Joseph County, Ind., police officer who allegedly crashed a rental car while doing emergency driving moves he had recently learned at the police academy has been charged with conspiracy to commit insurance...
Virginia State Police Traffic Crackdown Results in 6,800 Violations
May 22 2009 // Virginia State Police say a two-day traffic safety campaign along Interstates 81 and 95 resulted in more than 6,800 violations. State Police conducted Operation Air, Land & Speed on Sunday and Monday. Along I-81,...
Texas High Court Rules Against Insurer in Fleeing Truck Case
Apr 20 2009 // The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that an insurance company must pay a family’s claim over a child critically injured by a truck that was fleeing from police. The child’s parents, Greg and Maribel Tanner, sued...
Las Vegas Police Say Task Force Curbing Car Thefts
Apr 15 2009 // Las Vegas police say a push to curb auto thefts is behind a big drop in the number of vehicles stolen in southern Nevada. A report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau said that Clark County had the seventh-most cars...
Arkansas Lawmakers Pass Measure Banning ‘Accident Tax’
Apr 1 2009 // Arkansas lawmakers have approved a new law that stops local governments from billing motorists for accident response services performed by police departments, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Arkansas Supreme Court Sides With Newspaper in Lawsuit
Mar 17 2009 // A legal principle covering journalists who base their reports on police records protects a newspaper sued over stories it published about an alleged rape, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled. In an unanimous decision, the...
Vermont Police Search for Suspect behind String of 22 Arsons
Mar 10 2009 // Police in Barre, Vermont are trying to solve a string of 22 arson fires that go back to October, including three on Thursday. Police released a surveillance video of what appears to be a suspect setting a fire in a trash...
Former New Jersey Police Officer Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Mar 6 2009 // A former Camden City, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced for insurance fraud for falsely claiming that vans used by his patient transportation business were only being driven for personal use, according to state...
South Carolina Police Say Camera Helps Recover Stolen Cars
Mar 5 2009 // The police chief in North Charleston, South Carolina says a new camera system that can check license plates in an instant is so good at finding stolen cars and tags, he wants to set up a camera in high crime areas. Chief...
Reno Police: Traffic Accidents Drop in 2008
Feb 19 2009 // Reno, Nev., police say efforts to target busy intersections for traffic and safety enforcement is paying off with few serious crashes. Police Lt. David Evans says in 2008, statistics show fatal accidents declined 35...
Police: New York Man with Anti-DWI Device in DWI Crash
Feb 18 2009 // Police say a Long Island man whose car was outfitted with an anti-drunken-driving device rented another car and crashed it while intoxicated. Police say 27-year-old Marvin Rice, Junior, of Shirley, lost control of a rental...
Australia Police Declare Bushfire Disaster a ‘Crime Scene’
Feb 10 2009 // Australian police treated the country’s entire bushfire disaster zone as a crime scene on Tuesday as investigators combed through a blackened wasteland to find clues to the culprits behind the country’s...
5 Risk Management Challenges for Public Entities in Today’s Economy
Feb 8 2009 // Local governments increased their commitment to risk management over the past decade, as they met the challenges posed by several major natural disaster and terrorism events. Better local government loss prevention, crisis...
Ohio Among States Weighing Tougher Seat Belt Laws to Get Funding
Feb 6 2009 // More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists who aren’t wearing seat belts. The 15 states, including Ohio, that are considering making the switch need to do so...
Florida High Court Rules Police Can Be Sued Over Safety Checks
Feb 2 2009 // A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court says law enforcement agencies can be sued over “safety checks” that go bad. The justices ruled 4-3 in the case of an elderly woman who later died after Marion County...
Arkansas Lawmaker Again Pushing Mandatory Seat Belt Law
Feb 2 2009 // The lead sponsor of legislation that would allow officers in Arkansas to pull over drivers for not wearing seat belts says he’ll also call on police agencies to collect data on the race of motorists they stop for the...
Latest Pennsylvania Fire Claims 15 Houses; Arson Suspected
Jan 27 2009 // The latest in a string of suspicious fires in this suburban Philadelphia city tore through a block of row houses, heavily damaging 15 homes, displacing dozens of people and prompting local officials to declare a state of...
Foreclosures, Vacant Properties Increase with Continuing Financial Crisis
Jan 25 2009 // Properties Vulnerable to Vandalism, Theft In communities across America, several factors have combined to create a “perfect storm” of property risk. Growing numbers of foreclosures are leaving scores of...
Continuing Financial Crisis Leads to Vacant Properties, Vulnerable to Vandalism, Metal Theft
Jan 25 2009 // Brooklyn, N.Y. — Thieves who broke the locks on an unoccupied apartment building stripped the entire building of its copper piping, valued at more than $30,000. Las Vegas — The entire electrical system,...
Auto Thefts Down in Tulsa
Jan 20 2009 // Police in Tulsa, Okla., say that a 30 percent drop in auto thefts last year is largely due to officers targeting thieves who snatch cars to make quick cash from scrap metal. Roughly 2,500 vehicles were reported stolen in...
