Camden, New Jersey, police are expanding their community crime prevention efforts to include interactive use of their surveillance cameras.
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The next thing you see is the kid takes off running. He’s not in fear of arrest. He’s attempting to catch the football the police officer has tossed to him. The kid returns the ball to the police officer, who tosses him another one.
Read More →The Philadelphia Police Department will soon implement a new set of guidelines for how officers interact with transgender people. The policy offers basic definitions of transgender men and women, and how best to sort out names and identities during interviews or arrests.
Read More →As Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced Mr. Bratton's appointment as the new commissioner of the New York Police Department, he cited Mr. Bratton's time in Los Angeles as a primary reason for his selection, saying it proved he could police fairly while still bringing down crime.
Read More →The St. Louis Police Department is giving some of the city's most at-risk children free books and encouraging them to read and write.
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An American Fork (Utah) Police officer with a sense of humor wrote a fake traffic citation and placed it on a hot-pink Barbie jeep blocking a driveway.
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A Lodi (Calif.) Police officer was injured, when a boy fired the officer's holstered gun at an educational reading event and ran away.
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Phoenix Police officers have been using basketball and mentoring to improve the lives of hundreds of young Phoenix girls in a volunteer project called "Hoops for Hope."
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The bags will include educational information affixed to them and a label with a link to the agency's "Marijwhatnow" FAQ explaining that adults can possess up to an ounce of marijuana.
Read More →Elected officials seeking reforms seem to lack the respect for the men and women of emergency services. As one said recently to me, "There is no difference between a police officer and ditch digger, you are all my servants."
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