
As 18-year-old Micah Schieber began planning his party to celebrate his graduation from Midland High School in Michigan he asked his mother if he could invite officers from his local police department to attend. On the day of the party, 18 officers arrived in cars running the lights atop their patrol vehicles.
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After touring Chicago's current police academy and seeing recruits apprehending mock suspects in a dark hallway, Mayor Lori Lightfoot came away more convinced than ever that replacing the academy is essential to improve police training.
Read More →An off-duty Chicago police officer was critically shot early Wednesday morning. He has shown some response, giving a thumbs-up while undergoing treatment at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Troy Chisum, 39, was responding to a battery and disturbance call at a rural home in Avon, IL, when he was shot by a suspect inside the home, authorities said. The suspect is in custody.
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First responders will stand by Officer Michael Langsdorf's casket until he is buried as a way to honor the North County (MO) Police Cooperative officer who was killed Sunday afternoon
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An officer with the North County Police Cooperative was shot and killed Sunday afternoon while responding to a call about a customer trying to cash a bad check at a local food market.
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An officer with the Hazelwood (MO) Police Department is being credited with saving the lives of a 3-year-old girl and her grandmother from a house fire in a basement apartment late last week.
Read More →One of the officers was hit twice in the lower body and was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Maryland Heights Police Department. The second officer, the wounded officer’s partner, "returned fire," police said, and Ellis, who was not hit, took off on foot.
Read More →“There was no master on the bridge to guide the ship as it floundered through uncharted waters, and it ultimately lost its bearings,” Toomin wrote in the 21-page opinion. “... The unprecedented irregularities identified in this case warrants the appointment of independent counsel to restore the public’s confidence in the integrity of our criminal justice system.”
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Meggitt Training Systems is equipping a two-story firing range in Ohio and a dual-use one in North Carolina.
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