The head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association on Monday night slammed the city’s record-breaking $5.9 million settlement with the family of police chokehold victim Eric Garner as “obscene” and “shameful.”
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A St. Louis police officer was shot early Tuesday morning in the Central West End. The shooting occured shortly before 5 a.m. on Maryland Avenue, between Kingshighway and N. Euclid. Authorities believe he was ambushed.
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"Not only is our officer hurt, this person is facing attempted murder charges as far as I'm concerned," said Orlando Police Chief John Mina.
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A Sunni Muslim state trooper who convinced a judge he was fired for his faith now wants the Tennessee Department of Safety to pay a financial price for its discrimination.
Read More →A piece of the municipal court reform measure signed into law Thursday by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon establishes an accreditation process for police departments in St. Louis County.
Read More →A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man faces arraignment on a second-degree manslaughter charge.
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Federal authorities have arrested an Adams, Mass., man who was allegedly planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on a university with guns and improvised explosives. His father, a Boston PD police captain, notified authorities of the plans.
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President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 46 drug offenders, saying in a video posted online Monday that the men and women were not "hardened criminals" and their punishments didn't match the crimes they committed.
Read More →Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, escaped sometime Saturday night from a maximum-security prison through a sophisticated mile-long clandestine passageway.
Read More →The California state legislature gave final passage Thursday to a measure that would affirm the public's right to record the actions of police officers. The bill now goes to the governor.
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