Community for Cops
An officer with the North Miami Police Department was hospitalized after an early morning multi-car vehicle collision on Monday.
When an officer with the Lynn Haven (FL) Police Department came upon a mother and her three children in a broken down car at a local fast food restaurant and discovered that the hungry family didn't have enough money to buy a meal, she opened her wallet and bought them dinner.
A deputy with the Pasco Sheriff's Office who was shot in the leg received life-threatening injuries but was quite likely saved by the quick action taken by other officers at the scene.
A 47-year old man—identified as Dean Barger—who reportedly shot at a woman and her daughter barricaded himself inside a Pomona Park home for a period of time before eventually surrendering to the responding SWAT team.
"There's no crime called refusing to die while a mass murderer is in your school," said Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York City police officer and prosecutor.
The former Broward County, FL, deputy who was the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during last year's deadly mass shooting has been arrested on several counts of child neglect among other charges.
Divers with the Putnam County (FL) Sheriff's Office were conducting training on a local river when they discovered a significant amount of debris on the riverbed where the exercise was being conducted.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says the off-duty reserve officer, later identified as Robert Potts, followed a man who left the scene of a hit-and-run crash.
A City of Miami, FL, police officer who lost both legs and nearly lost his life in a motorcycle crash in February is making great progress on his road to recovery. He hopes to return to duty on the prosthetic legs he's learning to walk with.
An off-duty officer with the Tampa Police Department was in pursuit of a suspected hit-and-run driver when shots were fired late Wednesday morning.