All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2023 // Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill this week that will expand workers’ compensation coverage for full-time firefighters and law enforcement officers.Currently, a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer who is...
Feb 8 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A civil rights group in New Orleans is pointing to two federal lawsuit settlements as examples of how civil litigation can hold police accountable for violent tactics in the wake of Tyre Nichols’...
Feb 3 2023 // SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a Black man who said police officers in a Louisiana city threw him to the ground, slammed his face into the sidewalk and detained him in a mental...
Feb 1 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Officials in Ohio’s largest city have reached a $225,000 settlement with a man who said police officers used improper force during a 2017 arrest.The Columbus City Council voted unanimously...
Jan 26 2023 // BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Bennington man is suing the town, its police chief and two officers, accusing them of violating his constitutional rights by arresting him in the 2016 armed robbery of two convenience store...
Jan 26 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a former Virginia police chief’s $10 million wrongful termination lawsuit saying she didn’t have sufficient evidence of discrimination, conspiracy or malice.U.S. District Judge...
Jan 24 2023 // ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury on Friday rejected a woman’s allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her.The eight-person...
Jan 24 2023 // Investigators on Thursday released the identity of the person who was shot and killed by law enforcement officers who were trying to clear protesters camping at the site of a planned Atlanta-area public safety training...
Jan 20 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.Officers responded to a...
Jan 19 2023 // A federal jury in Virginia on Tuesday found mostly in favor of two police officers who were sued by a U.S. Army lieutenant after he was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed during a traffic stop.Video of the 2020 incident...
Jan 17 2023 // Louisiana State Police arrested a Texas public adjuster for allegedly pocketing $592,000 from settlement checks that were intended for seven former clients by forging the homeowners’ signatures.Andrew Joseph...
Jan 17 2023 // Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard.The...
Jan 11 2023 // A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia, but never arrested, will argue to a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally...
Jan 3 2023 // Businesses in Quebec are looking at all the usual hurdles as they plan for next year: Inflation, supply chains, employee turnover. And then there’s the language police.It’s too soon to know how the Office...
Jan 3 2023 // VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Several parties to a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black man on the Virginia Beach oceanfront last year have asked a judge to enforce the $3 million settlement...
Dec 23 2022 // Police in Baltimore are investigating dozens of rideshare carjackings and robberies over the past month but have seen more cases despite several arrests, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Wednesday.In many cases,...
Dec 16 2022 // The city of Virginia Beach will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit from the family of a Black man who was shot by police during a chaotic night of violence on the city’s oceanfront last year.The city and the family...
Dec 16 2022 // Eight people suffered minor injuries Tuesday in a fire at a New York Police Department warehouse that houses DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as cars, e-bikes and motor scooters, police and fire officials said.The...
Dec 15 2022 // Michigan’s civil rights watchdog announced two charges of discrimination against the Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday, further heightening scrutiny of the department following an officer’s killing of...
Dec 15 2022 // The director of Boise’s police watchdog group who was put on leave earlier this month has been fired, and he has filed a lawsuit against the city.Mayor Lauren McLean’s office said the decision to place Office...