LAPD Captain Greg Meyer (ret.) discusses some of the dangers to police officers present during traffic stops, and some of the tactics he teaches officers to help mitigate those dangers.
According to the Times-News, the subject—identified as 20-year-old Carlik Lamonte Poteat—has been charged with felony false bomb report and misdemeanor communicating threats.
Officer Jarius Daugherty said Atlanta Police officers have received multiple death threats after the death of 18-year-old D’ettrick Griffin, who was shot and killed by a plainclothes Atlanta officer when he attempted to steal his car at a gas station earlier this week.
An officer with the Midlothian (OH) Police Department who reportedly shot and killed a security guard—Jemel Roberson—near a bar in the Chicago suburbs now fears for his life.
"I want to see people killing cops and Uber drivers in and around Cambridge and Somerville and I'll buy you a drink," the advertisement said.
Powder Springs PD spokesman Dwayne Prosser said that the investigation began over the weekend when police from Manchester, NH, alerted Powder Springs police to threatening Facebook posts.
MS-13 has directed its members to "take out a cop" in a directive that has police on high alert across the New York area, according to a new memo.
Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a burglar who stole guns from a San Jose, CA, home and left behind a note threatening to shoot police officers and people in San Francisco, authorities said.
The Sacramento Police Department declined to confirm the names. Department spokeswoman Officer Linda Matthew said the officers involved in the shooting have received "numerous" threats.
A Baton Rouge, LA, police officer was injured late Sunday night when a suspect fired several rounds into a marked police unit, said Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr.
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