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A shooting rampage in the Isla Vista, Calif., neighborhood near the University of California at Santa Barbara left seven people dead, including the shooter.
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Salinas, Calif., police fatally shot a man armed with gardening shears midday Tuesday outside a Sanborn Road bakery, Salinas Police Department Cmdr. Vince Maiorana said.
Read More →A California Highway Patrol officer was hospitalized after a head-on collision late Monday night.
Read More →About half of the San Diego Police Department's current force of 1,833 is eligible for retirement over the next four years. That’s a troubling statistic for a department that already has 300 fewer officers than a decade ago.
Read More →Soledad Police Chief Eric Sills said a 17-year-old boy stabbed his grandmother, grandfather and Sgt. Thomas Marchese. Marchese is a 10-year veteran of the police force.
Read More →Oakland, Calif., interim Police Chief Sean Whent has been named the department's new permanent police chief.
Read More →A Richmond, Calif., woman described as "Houdini" for her ability to flip her handcuffed arms over her head spent Mother's Day in a jail cell after allegedly fighting with family and spitting in a police officer's face, authorities said.
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“This incident represents a sentinel event in American policing – one that serves as a warning of needed changes in the public safety system,” said Police Foundation President Jim Bueermann, who put the Foundation's review team together. “A trained former police officer was hunting police officers and their families, exploiting geo-political, jurisdictional and technological boundaries and using legally-acquired, sophisticated, high-powered weaponry.”
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Dashcam footage released this week by the Police Foundation shows that Riverside, Calif., officers Michael Crain and Daniel Tachias were ambushed by Christopher Dorner before they knew the former LAPD officer had attacked two LAPD officers some 20 minutes earlier in nearby Corona.
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An Alameda County (Calif.) Sheriff's Office deputy will need facial reconstructive surgery after a violent struggle with two men in a hallway of a Castro Valley apartment complex Saturday night.
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