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Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer criticized by President Obama for his arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., has taught a class to police recruits about the dangers of racial profiling, the Boston Globe reports.
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A former Major League Baseball player who gave up the game this year was set to graduate from the Port Authority Police academy on Friday.
Read More →Job seekers are swamping federal, state and local police agencies during the economic downturn, a reversal from recent years when departments struggled to find qualified recruits.
Read More →The U.S. Department of Justice has released an additional $5.7 million to Pennsylvania to purchase specialized personal-protection equipment for first responders under the state's Regional Counter-Terrorism initiative.
Read More →Sahilu began pointing at the deputies who were about 50 feet away outside his store. The unidentified deputy fired at the unarmed Sahilu, thinking he was pointing a gun at them.
Read More →A Mentor (Ohio) Police Department officer brought "a negative light" to his department when a YouTube video showed him dunking his head in a bucket of urine at a football tailgate party, his chief said.
Read More →An off-duty Drug Enforcement Administration special agent assigned to a Colombia field office was killed during a robbery attempt in Bogota, the agency announced.
Read More →The Riverside (Calif.) Police officer wounded by Chris Dorner and the widow of his slain partner met for the first time, as the two attended a Friday fund-raiser.
Read More →Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said 90 police recruits are currently in the pipeline, and that she is working with the City Council to enact a retention bonus for officers. The department is about 400 officers under its authorized level.
Read More →In this POLICE Special Report: “Traffic Safety and Enforcement” read about how e-citation systems are making traffic stops safer for officers and motorists, how motorists can work with police to report non-injury traffic accidents, how automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) systems can help agencies monitor traffic patterns, and how crash mapping can predict when and where accidents are likely to occur.
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