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Should applicants for jobs as police be held to a higher standard of moral character than is expected in other fields of employment? These recruits, after all, are just the mirror image of the society they will police. Is this prerequisite fair, or even realistic?
Read More →The man agreed to come off the bridge. That's when Officer Hicks hugged the man for quite some time, then walked the man back to a car. More Here.
Read More →Over the weekend Police asked officers and their loved ones to send photos of their law enforcement valentines. Photos can include spouses, significant others, children, and pets.
Read More →Still armed with a .22 caliber rifle stolen from a homeowner's garage this week, Cavalcante tried to crawl away through the brush and escape from the tactical units closing in, officials said. Then a K-9 bit him and held him down.
Read More →Fort Myers (Fla.) Police are mourning the loss of an officer who was shot and killed by a suspect at Main & Hendry streets in downtown Fort Myers early Friday morning.Major Doug Baker says the officer, 30-year-old Andrew Widman, responded to a domestic dispute between a man and his girlfriend in front of the pizza shop on Hendry Street at 2:03 a.m.
Read More →The Police Unity Tour's motto, "We Ride for Those Who Died," is one that each rider seriously embraces. Participants not only train hard for the 300-mile average bicycle ride, each rider raises more than $1,700 to raise awareness and financial support for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Read More →Presenters Captain Jason Bussert and Sergeant Dax Laporte will discuss examples of real calls for service answered by DFR. Case studies will include de-escalation of incidents and searching for and locating missing persons.
Read More →The chiefs urged Gov. Charlie Baker and state legislators to work with police on the legislation instead of cutting them out of the conversation.
Read More →A Bradenton, FL, police officer is sharing his horrifying account after a burglar tried to gouge his eyes out.
Read More →Officers with the Chester Township (DE) Police Department arrested a 29-year-old man—who was driving a vehicle equipped with emergency lights, siren, and a police scanner—for impersonating a law enforcement officer.
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