Law Enforcement

The family of a man shot and killed by police after they went to the wrong house, have announced their intention to file a lawsuit, multiple outlets reported. "This horrific night that happened feels like a horrible nightmare," new widow Kim Dotson said at a press conference Thursday, her family at her side. "This careless [...]

A police department in New Mexico released body camera footage that shows officers fatally shooting a homeowner after they responded to the wrong home.  "All of us – the men and women of the Farmington Police Department – recognize the severity of this incident," Farmington Police Department Chief Steve Hebbe said in a statement posted [...]

Police in Louisville on Monday announced an update on the condition of a rookie 26-year-old police officer who was shot in the head by a gunman last week as he responded to a deadly mass shooting at a bank. Officer Nickolas Wilt remains in critical but stable condition a week after undergoing brain surgery for [...]

A Michigan man was caught red-handed after he was seen flashing red and blue police lights and impersonating a police officer by attempting to pull over a real off-duty police officer in a fake traffic stop. Christian Katan Mansoor, 18, of Macomb Township was darting around in a silver BMW with flashing red and blue lights on [...]

Police have released the bodycam footage of a woman an officer shot after she attempted to attack him with a 10-pound wrench. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) released the footage on March 10 following an investigation of the November shooting of 25-year-old Bridget Blaney. Read more...

Hundreds of undercover officers with the Los Angeles Police Department filed a negligence lawsuit against the department and the city for releasing their identities. The officers' personal information and headshots were posted by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, an anti-police group, to a searchable online database. Read more...

AURORA | Four Aurora police officers were cleared Monday in the shooting death of a man who brandished a knife on a Regional Transportation District bus in October. Alexander Collins, 35, was shot and killed by Aurora police after he allegedly stole cigarettes from a store and then refused to exit an RTD bus while [...]

CHICAGO — Two police officers, including one who is from the Chicago area, are being hailed as heroes after taking down the Nashville private school shooting suspect Monday. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officer Rex Engelbert grew up in Forest Glen before moving to Ohio to study criminal justice at the University of Dayton, after which, [...]

Twitter suspended an account that offered bounties on the heads of Los Angeles police officers following the police department releasing photos, names and serial numbers for all cops in the city to an anti-police group.  "We are appreciative of Twitter acting swiftly to take down this dangerous site that called for the murder of Los [...]

A man brandishing a machete barricaded himself in a house and held three people hostage in San Jose, California.  Police say a California man with a machete took one adult and two children as hostages and held them up in a house near a high school, KTVU reports. Read more...