Tag: Off-Duty Incidents: Page 44

Training

Intoxicated Texas Cop Loses Control In Squad

A Saginaw (Texas) Police officer lost his job for disorderly behavior during an off-duty arrest by Fort Worth Police. The intoxicated officer screamed and cursed at police and kicked the rear window of a Fort Worth patrol vehicle. Read the full story here.

February 19, 2013

Patrol

USC Remembers Dorner Victim Keith Lawrence

Officer Keith Lawrence, who had worked for the university since August, was shot and killed by Chris Dorner along with his fiancé Monica Quan. The double homicide prompted a massive manhunt for the fugitive ex-LAPD cop.

February 18, 2013

Training

Pa. Woman Threw Cat Feces at Officer's Home

A woman was arrested for throwing cat feces on a Carbondale (Pa.) Police officer's house, still upset over his arrest of her years ago.

February 5, 2013

Training

Off-Duty Cop Stops Hospital Rape

An off-duty Holly Springs (Ga.) Police officer helped a nurse stop the rape of an elderly woman at Atlanta Medical Center earlier this month. Officer Shane Ladner, who was in the next room, responded after hearing screams.

January 23, 2013

Training

Off-Duty Tactics for Street and Home

As law enforcement officers we find it hard to think of ourselves as "victims." We tend to think that robberies, burglaries, and home invasions happen to other people, not to us. After all, we're the cops. Unfortunately, crime can affect anyone, even us.

January 22, 2013

Special Units

Las Vegas Lt. Kills Family, Torches Home

A veteran Las Vegas police lieutenant called 911 early Monday to say he had killed his wife and son and had set fire to his Boulder City home.

January 21, 2013

Patrol

Off-Duty Cop Shoots Ore. Deputy

A 13-year veteran of the Hillsboro (Ore.) Police Department is accused of attempted aggravated murder after an incident at his Forest Grove residence that left a Washington County Sheriff's deputy injured late Sunday.

January 20, 2013

Patrol

Five Off-Duty Pittsburgh Cops Fired at Car

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Friday that it's "way too early" to judge if Pittsburgh Police were justified when they opened fire on a crowded South Side street at the end of a car chase.

January 19, 2013

Training

Mass. Cops Caught Egging Sergeant's Home

Several off-duty Newton (Mass.) Police officers were caught egging the home of their sergeant in an incident they called a "joke between friends."

January 5, 2013

Patrol

3 NYPD Cops Shot In the Bronx, Brooklyn

Three NYPD cops were shot in separate incidents an hour apart in the Bronx and Brooklyn Thursday night—one that left a gunman dead on a subway platform and an innocent straphanger wounded.

January 3, 2013

Patrol

Off-Duty Florida Deputy Stops Gunman From Killing More

On July 25, Sgt. Kristin Shiner was relaxing at home. However, when she heard shots fired near her house, she quickly switched modes and successfully kept an armed neighbor who'd killed a door-to-door salesman from continuing to shoot.

December 17, 2012

Patrol

Texas Deputy Stops Theater Shooter

A Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a gunman at a movie theater late Sunday after two people were wounded by the shooter.

December 15, 2012