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Col. Robert Hodges, the state police superintendent, told troopers in an internal email obtained by AP that the “isolated incidents” highlighted in the report “are not a fair assessment of today’s Louisiana State Police..."
Read More →“The degree of mismanagement is epic. It’s incompetence married with poisonous ideology,” said Alex Villanueva, who was Los Angeles County sheriff between 2018 and 2022.
Read More →The governor’s plan, part of her 2025 State of the State address, comes as a string of high-profile violent incidents on the city’s subway system have renewed fears among riders.
Read More →The firefighter imposter was one of 29 people who had been arrested on suspicion of looting in Los Angeles since the wildfire disaster started last week, officials said.
Read More →The city’s sergeants haven’t had a contract in two years because of an ongoing wage disparity affecting more than 1,200 supervisors that began when the city increased the salaries of rank-and-file police officers.
Read More →Suspects with at least three arrests on their rap sheet were charged with assault 442 times last year, up from 274 in 2018 — part of a pattern that shows wrongdoers are being cut loose too often, with the NYPD blaming soft-on-crime Albany lawmakers.
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The leading cause of line-of-duty deaths for police officers in 2024 was gunfire, and the largest increase over 2023 resulted from traffic-related incidents, both underscoring the growing risks faced by law enforcement officers in the line of duty.
Read More →Eric Hessler, who works as an attorney for the Police Association of New Orleans, commended the actions of law enforcement during the incident.
Read More →The underreporting began in 2013, after the department switched to its current incident-based reporting system, which allows law enforcement to better classify multiple crimes that occur within a single incident.
Read More →A spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said the driver, an off-duty city police sergeant, remained at the scene. The prosecutor’s office said they were not releasing the police sergeant’s name since the investigation is active.
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