A new piece of legislation under consideration in New York would require police officers to obtain personal liability insurance to cover civil lawsuits filed against them by people claiming to be victims of police misconduct.
Read More →An officer with the Springfield (MO) Police Department is suing the man who is accused of deliberately crashing an SUV into him.
Read More →The former chief of the Oakland (CA) Police Department filed a whistleblower claim against the city, the first step toward filing a lawsuit over her termination in February.
Read More →A former officer with the Unified (UT) Police Department is suing his department for discrimination he says began when he came out as transgender and began transitioning to the opposite sex.
Read More →An officer with the Mount Vernon (NY) Police Department who claims she was sexually abused by a supervisor while they responded to a 911 call about a dead person has filed suit against the former officer and the city.
Read More →Patrol deputies Robert Lindsey Jr. and Charles Rodriguez -- who were acquitted of perjury and conspiracy charges -- alleged they were wrongfully prosecuted at the direction of Tanaka.
Read More →The wife of a Los Angeles police officer is suing the city after both she and her husband contracted typhus, which she alleges resulted from his working at an unsafe building located in an area with a large homeless population.
Read More →An officer with the West Deer Township (PA) Police Department has filed suit against two private enterprises after he says he witnessed a man being electrocuted by downed power lines.
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The widow of a commander with the Chicago Police Department who was shot and killed responding to a February 2018 radio call is suing the online firearms retailer that allegedly sold the accused cop killer the weapon used in the incident.
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St. Louis County agreed to a $10.25 million settlement with an officer now promoted to lieutenant who had been passed over for promotion and sued the county in a workplace discrimination case.
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