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After two encounters with illegal marijuana grow operations maintained by the cartels—one of which turned dangerously violent as responding LEOs came under ambush attack—Lieutenant John Nores decided to stand up a team of special operators.
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The Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday voted 5-0 to allow officers with the LAPD to start using their small fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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An officer with the Oakland Police Department performed CPR on a man suffering a medical emergency in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum prior to the football game between the Raiders and the Denver Broncos Monday night.
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An officer with the Los Angeles School Police Department was patrolling a high school campus in preparation for a football game when he received word that a woman atop a nearby building was threatening to jump to her death.
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The man accused of shooting a Merced County, CA, sheriff's deputy was captured following a nearly hour-long high-speed chase. The sheriff said the man was in the country illegally and the agency had been unable to turn him over to ICE earlier this year because of politics.
Read More →Chief of police for the Pasadena (CA) Police Department says he wants to enact a plan he has devised to make the agency more effective.
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The Nevada County Sheriff's Office playfully posted images to social media over the weekend of a goat eating a deputy's snacks in the front passenger seat of his patrol vehicle.
Read More →The family of Stephon Clark—who was shot and killed by deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in March—has reached a possible settlement with the City of Sacramento that would give $2.5 million dollars to Clark's children.
Read More →An officer with the Santa Cruz (CA) Police Department and a civilian man and woman were injured in an apartment fire on Wednesday.
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Policing in an area where a natural disaster is actively unfolding presents some unique challenges. Let's examine some of them so that when tragedy strikes in your jurisdiction—whether that's a hurricane, a tornado, a flash flood, a blizzard, an earthquake, a volcano, a wildfire, or something else—you've got a handle on what you've got to handle.
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