All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2022 // On November 24, 2018, Alicia E. Shaffer Stalheim, 25, was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, Luis Rodriguez, seven months after Rodriguez learned Stalheim and her children met for ice cream with another man.Stalheim,...
Jun 6 2022 // A woman who was struck in the eye with a so-called “rubber sbullet” during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, causing an injury that required surgery, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the...
Jun 6 2022 // A federal appeals court has upheld part of a 2020 Connecticut police accountability law that allows public disclosure of state trooper personnel files and internal investigations.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Jun 1 2022 // The Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers – and other law enforcement agencies also say this is becoming a common occurrence.The Northwest News Network reports that from...
Jun 1 2022 // An Arizona man was facing multiple theft charges last week after detectives found more than 1,200 catalytic converters packed into a storage unit, a case that highlights a national surge in thefts of the pricy auto parts...
May 31 2022 // A court settlement calls for the city of Baltimore to pay $300,000 to resolve claims that police officers planted drugs on a rapper known as Young Moose.The Baltimore Sun reports that the city’s spending board is...
May 31 2022 // Texas police accused of bungling the response to a mass shooter in an Uvalde school where 19 children and two teachers were killed aren’t likely to be held liable in a civil court, benefiting from broad immunity...
May 27 2022 // Two former police officers whose gender discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit led Philadelphia’s police commissioner to resign have won a $1 million verdict against the city.A federal jury on Tuesday found...
May 26 2022 // Miami-Dade County has agreed to pay a record $4 million for the care of a girl whose spinal cord was severed in a crash with a police cruiser that was speeding into an intersection with non-working stoplights as a...
May 17 2022 // Lawmakers investigating the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene voted unanimously last week to hold the former head of the Louisiana State Police in contempt for defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the...
May 17 2022 // A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit against two former police officers accused of protecting a sex trafficking ring in northern Virginia in exchange for sex can move forward.The former Fairfax County officers,...
May 16 2022 // A former Bridgeport assistant police chief’s lawsuit claiming he was defrauded out of the police chief’s job can go forward, a state appeals court has ruled.James Nardozzi’s lawsuit stemmed from the...
May 12 2022 // Two Black female police officers allege in separate lawsuits that they were subjected to discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment at the Kansas City Police Department.Officer Rashawnda Williams said in...
May 4 2022 // Lawmakers investigating the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene are preparing to hold the former head of the Louisiana State Police in contempt for refusing to turn over his journals after talks broke down Monday...
Apr 29 2022 // The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people at a higher rate than white people, using force more often on people of...
Apr 25 2022 // The parents of a man killed in Washington by Auburn police have filed a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit alleging an officer shot Enosa Strickland Jr. in the back of the head while he was lying in a parking...
Apr 13 2022 // An arbitrator has ruled that two Buffalo police officers didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020 during racial injustice...
Apr 8 2022 // A Maine jury has sided with a media company in a lawsuit over newspaper stories about sex abuse allegations involving a former police captain.The case stemmed from articles that were published in the Biddeford-Saco-Old...
Apr 5 2022 // Police in Vermont are investigating allegations of hazing involving the women’s rugby team at Norwich University, authorities said.Multiple law enforcement agencies went to a residence hall at the private military...
Apr 5 2022 // The City of London police, which has been investigating the Lapsus$ hacking group, said on Friday it had charged two teenagers with cyber offenses.A 16-year-old and 17-year-old were charged with unauthorized access to a...