Community for Cops
An officer with the Rochester (NY) Police Department suffered a knife wound to the head on Friday.
The Oshkosh (WI) Police Department announced plans to enable citizens to use a mobile app to report non-emergency incidents to the agency.
An officer with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department who was struck by a suspect driving a Chrysler 300 sedan early Saturday morning fired on the subject, wounding him.
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.
Officers with the Mandan Police Department have welcomed a new two-year-old German Shepherd to its ranks, the agency said.
Three Good Samaritans came to the aid of a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who was in a potentially deadly struggle with a suspect who was reportedly attempting to take the deputy's gun.
A young man saw an officer about to jump into an indoor pool to save a woman from drowning and bravely jumped in to assist in the effort.
A group of Good Samaritans can be seen in a video helping a desperate police officer free his finger that was stuck in the trunk of an NYPD cruiser in Manhattan.
An officer in Texas got an assist from a couple of Good Samaritans—one of whom plays rugby and is adept at making an open-field tackle—in taking down a suspect last week.
The Santa Cruz (CA) Police Department has awarded an anonymous Good Samaritan—who intervened when an alleged assault occurred on a local store owner—a Chief's Commendation and Challenge Coin.