Police will be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones, the government has announced. The area around airports where drones are banned from flying will also be extended, and from 30 November operators of drones between 250g and 20kg...
Read moreDEKALB COUNTY, GA – A partnership between DeKalb County police and a popular home security company would allow officers to monitor security video posted on the company’s phone application. The Board of Commissioners could pass a resolution...
Read moreWASHINGTON (AP) — More police officers have died in the line of duty this year in the United States than in 2017, according to data released Thursday. The most common cause of death was gunfire, and vehicular accidents claimed nearly as many...
Read moreMore law enforcement officers were shot and killed in the line of duty in 2018 than last year, driving a 12 percent overall increase in the number of officers who died on the job, according to preliminary data from The National Law Enforcement...
Read moreThe Phoenix Police Department will spend millions of dollars to upgrade antiquated cellphone technology, outfit more officers with body-worn cameras and — perhaps most unusually — buy brain scanners for police training on “violent...
Read moreMIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Police say an attentive student helped foil an alleged school shooting plot at a Vermont middle school. Investigators say the principal at Middlebury Union Middle School called police Saturday after a student overheard two other...
Read moreAmid President Trump’s mounting legal problems, TV talking heads and bar-stool philosophers from Boise to Britain have been pondering one of the great mysteries of the U.S. Constitution. Can the president of the United States actually be...
Read morePHOENIX — All Marco Zepeda, a 44-year-old blind man, wanted to do when he went inside a convenience store last June was use the bathroom. But as he tried to find his way, the police report said, Mr. Zepeda had the misfortune of walking near a...
Read moreChuck Wexler talks to police chiefs frequently, as head of the Police Executive Research Forum think tank in Washington. Recently, he asked a roomful of chiefs to raise their hands if they wanted their children to follow them into a law...
Read more(CNN)”It’s a long story, but you’ll be glad you read until the end I promise.” That’s what Megan Nierman posted on social media this week, before sharing the story of how a traffic stop turned into one Indiana...
Read moreArctic Man is Alaska’s answer to Nevada’s more famous Burning Man. The writer Matt White once described it as “a weeklong booze and fossil-fueled Sledneck Revival bookended around the world’s craziest ski race,” during which “something like...
Read moreWhat kind of signal would appointing a member of Russia’s current security apparatus send about Interpol’s values? On Sunday, delegates of the general assembly of Interpol — the International Criminal Police Organization, the coordinating body...
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