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The standoff began, when officers responded to an alarm from a business at Mission and West Market streets. Responding officers heard gun shots and followed a man and woman to a home in the south San Francisco community.
Read More →City officials are working to close a $110 million budget gap with the public safety layoffs, which could also include 149 firefighters.
Read More →Arlington undercover officers called escort services' phone numbers listed in local publications and scoured the Web for sex-trade advertisements to set up meetings with suspects to make the arrests from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6.
Read More →In an e-mail exchange prior to taking his position, former Bell (Calif.) Police Chief Randy Adams referred to himself as a "pig" and joked that he looked forward to "taking all of Bell's money," referring to his exorbitant salary.
Read More →The deputy, who has not been identified, was not injured. He returned fire, wounding the suspect who has been identified as 25-year-old Armando Gonzalez.
Read More →The Baltimore PD is investigating the incident and not treating it as an officer-involved shooting because no one was hit. The officer and man scuffled, prior to the officer discharging his weapon.
Read More →The Bloomfield Township (N.J.) PD can now upgrade its motorcycle fleet under a program that has expanded to include other types of equipment, such as police cruisers, EMS vehicles, fire trucks, buses, tactical vehicles, or surveillance equipment.
Read More →The Atlanta PD launched Red Dog, which is said to stand for Run Every Drug Dealer Out Of Georgia, during the crack-cocaine epidemic in the 1980s when Atlanta had open-air drug markets and almost weekly drive-by shootings.
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The litany of attacks on police stations is lengthy, having occurred in cities, suburbs, and rural areas alike. For every attack, there are undoubtedly countless more close calls, many we probably don't even know about.
Read More →Following comments he gave to the local media stating he disagreed with an agency policy in mid-2009, Officer Hoback was ordered to undergo a psych evaluation that found him "unfit for duty." He was later fired.
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