Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Gov Appoints Police Chief King as Insurance Head During Beck Suspension
Jun 14 2019 // An Atlanta-area police chief was appointed by Georgia’s governor Wednesday to head the state’s insurance commission after the previous commissioner was indicted on federal charges. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp...
Police Say Texas Bartender Over-Served Man Prior to Deadly Attack
May 9 2019 // A suburban Dallas bartender is accused of continuing to serve drinks to a drunken man who later went to his estranged wife’s home and killed her and seven other people while they were watching a Dallas Cowboys game...
Maryland Police Search for Survivors of Helicopter Crash
May 7 2019 // Rescue workers searched for survivors Saturday after a helicopter with two people aboard crashed into the Chesapeake Bay. The helicopter crashed into the water about a half-mile off Bloody Point, on the southern end of...
Augusta Police Department to Change Practices Based on NTSB Recommendations
Apr 29 2019 // The Augusta Police Department says it’s going to follow “best practices” outlined by the National Transportation Safety Board in a report on a 2017 pileup during the United Bikers of Maine Toy Run. The...
Customers of Florida Spa in Kraft Case File Class Action Suit Against Police
Apr 24 2019 // Nearly three dozen men and women have filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing Florida authorities of unlawfully videotaping them as they received legal massages at a parlor where New England Patriots owner Robert...
Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers
Apr 23 2019 // It was about 6:30 on a Friday night in January when Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden pulled over a white Jeep Cherokee that was speeding and weaving in and out of its lane. The 47-year-old driver spoke slowly, his eyes were...
Student Sues Apple for $1 Billion, Blames Face-Recognition Tech for False Arrest
Apr 23 2019 // Apple is being sued for $1 billion in damages by an 18-year-old college student who blames the company’s facial recognition software for his false arrest and for wrongly tying him to thefts at Apple stores in several...
Digital or Plastic? Or Both? States Experiment with Driver’s Licenses
Apr 17 2019 // Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming years. Louisiana in July became the first state to make digital...
Fire Chief Says Shop Owner Declined to Evacuate Before North Carolina Blast
Apr 15 2019 // The coffee shop owner killed in a North Carolina gas line explosion was last seen in the doorway of his business after firefighters evacuated his customers and told him to leave, the fire chief said Thursday, as city...
Mother Sues Vegas Police Over Teen Son’s Shooting Death
Apr 11 2019 // The mother of a teenager who died of a gunshot to the head after police chased him into her house has filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against Las Vegas police. Taccara Brooks alleges in the case...
MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
Apr 8 2019 // Facial recognition technology was already seeping into everyday life — from photos on Facebook to police scans of mugshots — when Joy Buolamwini noticed a serious glitch: Some of the software couldn’t detect...
California Jury Awards $9M to Family of Woman Shot to Death
Mar 28 2019 // A California jury has awarded $9 million to the family of a woman fatally shot seven times by police in Long Beach in 2017 in what the family’s attorneys say is the largest such award in city history. The federal...
City of Charlotte, North Carolina Pays Family $950K in Pedestrian’s Death
Mar 20 2019 // A North Carolina city has paid the family of a man who was hit and killed by a speeding police car in 2017. The Charlotte Observer reports the city of Charlotte paid $950,000 in December to the family of James Michael...
Nevada Mulling ‘Textalyzer’ Tech That Scans Cellphones After Crashes
Mar 18 2019 // Most states ban texting behind the wheel, but a legislative proposal could make Nevada one of the first states to allow police to use a contentious technology to find out if a person was using a cellphone during a car...
Family Sues Nashville, Police Officer for $30M Over Fatal Shooting
Mar 14 2019 // The family of a black man killed by a Nashville police officer filed a federal lawsuit Monday, naming the city and the white officer who fatally shot the man from behind as he ran with a gun. Attorney Joy Kimbrough said...
North Carolina Insurance Fraud Round-Up: January, February
Mar 13 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the first two months of 2019. Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to...
Honolulu Paying $550K to Settle 2009 Police Suit
Mar 12 2019 // The Honolulu City Council has agreed to pay $550,000 to a retired police lieutenant who claimed that Police Chief Susan Ballard had tampered with recruits’ test scores when she was in charge of the training...
No Criminal Liability for Uber in Fatal 2018 Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Yavapai County...
Police Say Intoxicated Driver Hit 41 Cars in Rhode Island
Mar 1 2019 // Rhode Island police have arrested a man they say was driving under the influence when he struck more than 40 other vehicles. Police say 45-year-old Christopher Paolissi, of Foster, was “zig-zagging” his pickup...
Police: 5 Hurt in Indiana Church Bus Crash; Driver Arrested, Charged with DWI
Feb 28 2019 // Authorities say an 82-year-old church bus driver is charged with driving while intoxicated after five people were injured when a bus returning from a Chicago Bulls game went off the road in northwestern Indiana. Indiana...
