All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2025 // Oklahoma City and its police department have discriminated against people with behavioral health disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice said last week after releasing the latest in a series of investigations into...
Jan 2 2025 // South Korean police said on Thursday they had raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of their investigation into Sunday’s crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on...
Dec 26 2024 // The New Hampshire State Police reported that troopers are investigating the death of an adult male found dead at the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID).Investigators said they do not believe the death is suspicious...
Dec 19 2024 // A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit.Kristin...
Dec 18 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — A jury awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a 10-year-old Chicago girl who was killed during a police chase and crash in 2020.The city had acknowledged liability in the death of Da’Karia...
Dec 16 2024 // A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice...
Dec 10 2024 // Ten people were injured after a police traffic officer on a motorcycle crashed into bystanders at a weekend holiday parade in Palm Springs, California, authorities said.All of the injured were taken to hospitals Saturday...
Nov 26 2024 // Police in New Jersey’s capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including using excessive force and making unlawful stops, the Justice Department said last Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without legal...
Nov 20 2024 // A Northern California city has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging police used excessive force after a K-9 dog bit into a woman’s scalp during her arrest, requiring her to get more than 200...
Nov 19 2024 // A man was arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting brush fires in Massachusetts during a time of dry conditions that have led to blazes throughout the Northeast, police said Monday.Police said they arrested the...
Nov 18 2024 // The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out his car window, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the...
Nov 15 2024 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of police and dismissed a lawsuit alleging negligence in the 2020 death of a woman who was in custody in suburban Detroit.There wasn’t enough evidence to let a jury...
Nov 14 2024 // A bicyclist pulling a trailer in Vermont died after he was struck by a police cruiser, state police said.The crash happened just before 3 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 7 in South Burlington. The officer, a sergeant with the...
Nov 8 2024 // A man who was recently fired from his job at Navy Pier returned to the Chicago tourist attraction and killed two workers before fleeing, police said.The attack happened Tuesday afternoon after the fired worker gained...
Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...
Oct 30 2024 // Indian police have summoned Asit Rath, the chief executive of British insurer Aviva in the country, as part of an inquiry into a former employee’s accusations of religious discrimination at work, documents seen by...
Oct 23 2024 // The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out his car window, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the...
Oct 18 2024 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago.Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an...
Oct 16 2024 // A federal jury convicted former Castroville Police Chief, Christopher Filline, for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced. According to...
Oct 4 2024 // Maryland officials approved a $2.75 million settlement on Wednesday to resolve a federal investigation into discriminatory hiring practices affecting Black and female applicants to the Maryland State Police.The settlement,...