POLICE Logo
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH

Special Units

Newsby Staff WriterJune 20, 2016

Orlando SWAT Captain Answers Criticism of Team’s Response to Nightclub Massacre

“Officers were running inside and grabbing people and throwing them in pickup trucks” to be taken to hospitals, said Capt. Mark Canty of the SWAT team. “There was never a time we were sitting there twiddling our thumbs. My guys were doing things from the beginning. We weren’t just sitting idly by. We were doing what we needed to do to save lives.”

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 17, 2016

Active Shooter Incidents Continue to Rise, New FBI Data Show

Active shooter incidents in the United States continue to rise in frequency, with new FBI statistics showing the highest average of incidents ever in a two-year period.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 16, 2016

More Details Revealed on Police Response to Orlando Club Shooter

He was met by gunman Omar Mateen. Armed with a .223 caliber semiautomatic rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, Mateen started exchanging gunfire with the officer.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Staff WriterJune 15, 2016

Video: San Jose Motor Officer Killed in Head-On Crash

A San Jose, CA, police officer died in the line of duty in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday, the chief of police announced.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 14, 2016

Video: Armed Texas Walmart Hostage-taker Dead

An armed man suspected of taking hostages and firing shots at an Amarillo Walmart has been shot and is dead, according to the Amarillo Police Department.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 14, 2016

Video: ISIS-Inspired Attacker Kills French Police Captain, Streams It on Facebook

President François Hollande described the killings of the couple — police Capt. Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, identified as an administrative secretary at a police department outside Paris — as "undeniably a terrorist attack" and said that "France is confronted by an extremely high terrorist threat."

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Video: Responding to the Orlando Nightclub Massacre

Mina said the off-duty officer engaged in a shoot-out with Mateen up until more officers arrived. Additional police officers arrived and also engaged the suspect, and “forced him to stop shooting and retreat to the bathroom where he had some hostages.”

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Video: Georgia K-9 Dies After Being Left in Hot Car

A Georgia K-9 died Friday after being left in the patrol car of a school police officer for nearly three hours.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterJune 13, 2016

Video: Timeline of the Orlando Nightclub Massacre

A night of partying and dancing at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, turned into a killing ground and three hours of terror for early-morning revelers when a gunman opened fire around 2 a.m. ET inside the club, killing 50 people and wounding at least 53 in what is being called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Staff WriterJune 12, 2016

Terror Attack at Orlando Gay Club Kills 20, Wounds 42, Suspect Dead

A gunman who federal authorities say had possible ties to Islamist terrorism opened fire early Sunday morning at a packed Florida nightclub, killing approximately 20 people and wounding scores more in a bloody scene that ended hours later when police stormed the building and killed the suspect.

Read More →