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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 21, 2022

MD Officer Shot While Serving Warrant

A Laurel, MD, police officer was shot Wednesday morning as he and other officers were serving an arrest and search warrant in connection with an attempted murder case

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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 21, 2022

FL Officer Shot in Arm at Gas Station

Police say this started at the Circle K as a 911 call from a woman locked inside a bathroom. She said her boyfriend had roughed her up. When the officer arrived, investigators say the boyfriend, 24-year-old Calvin Brockington, got out of his car and opened fire.

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Special Unitsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2022

Kentucky State Police Aviation Unit Makes First Hoist Rescue

The rescue of two people from Red River Gorge marked the first hoist rescue in the history of the Kentucky State Police aviation program.

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Commandby Staff WriterApril 20, 2022

Atlanta Chief Retiring in June

Chief Rodney Bryant took the position as interim Chief of Police in 2020 after the resignation of Erika Shields over the killing of Rayshard Brooks. He was appointed to the position full-time in May 2021.

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Point of Lawby Wayne ParhamApril 20, 2022

New Law Says NJ Cops Can Smoke Pot Off Duty, Officials May Change It

Last week, just ahead of the start of legal recreational marijuana sales this week, New Jersey acting Attorney General Matt Platkin issued a memo to all law enforcement chief executives reminding them that law enforcement agencies in the state cannot take “any adverse action against any officers because they do or do not use cannabis off duty.”

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Special Unitsby Staff WriterApril 20, 2022

NY Detective Critically Wounded, Suspect Killed in Bodega Shootout

Members of the Westchester Safe Streets Task Force attempted to arrest three men as part of a firearms investigation, two of whom were in the bodega when one of the men tried to push past the detective inside the deli and shot him in the stomach.

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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 20, 2022

CT Trooper Charged with Manslaughter Over 2020 OIS

Trooper Brian North fatally shot Mubarak Soulemane in January 2020 as Soulemane sat in the driver's seat of a stolen car in West Haven, where the high-speed chase ended and police boxed in the car.

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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 20, 2022

4 North Carolina Highway Patrol Cars Burned Outside 7-Eleven While Troopers Inside

“They got in the trunk to get the fire extinguishers and thank goodness they extinguished the fire before the cars were totally destroyed.”

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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 19, 2022

Video Shows 2 Men Pointing Handguns at Unaware Cleveland Officer in Patrol Vehicle

The men, who might have been hiding behind a tinted-vehicle window, are also seen waving the weapons and laughing the entire time.

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Patrolby Staff WriterApril 19, 2022

Bodycam Captures IN Officers Catching Children Dropped From Window to Escape Fire

As smoke poured from the apartment, police directed the woman to toss her children, one at a time, out the window to where officers on the ground would be waiting.

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