All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 1 2022 // A Black Kansas City teenager will receive a $325,000 settlement after three white police officers hit him more than 10 times and used a stun gun on him, according to an excessive force lawsuit.It is the third settlement...
Apr 1 2022 // The parents of a 19-year-old man who was killed by state troopers on an overpass in the Pocono Mountains filed a wrongful-death suit Wednesday, saying video that Pennsylvania State Police initially tried to keep secret...
Mar 30 2022 // An Ossipee, New Hampshire police officer failed in his bid to have an excessive force and unlawful arrest complaint against him dismissed based on his contention he is entitled to qualified immunity protection.A federal...
Mar 28 2022 // A federal judge has upheld the verdict that awarded a high-ranking Boston police detective $2 million after she accused her former boss of gender discrimination, harassment and retaliation.U.S. District Court Judge Leo...
Mar 25 2022 // Police in Britain have arrested seven people following a series of hacks by the Lapsus$ hacking group which targeted major firms including Okta Inc. and Microsoft Corp., City of London Police said on Thursday.San...
Mar 22 2022 // The bridgetender in charge of a South Florida drawbridge where a woman fell to her death last month did not follow safety procedures and appeared to be texting before the woman slipped from the structure, according to news...
Mar 21 2022 // The city of Poulsbo, Washington, and its police department will pay $2 million to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the family of Stonechild Chiefstick, according to attorneys.Police shot Chiefstick at a park during...
Mar 18 2022 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled the public has a right to see the internal affairs report from the case of the city of Elizabeth’s former police director, who resigned after an investigation found he used...
Mar 17 2022 // Gov. John Bel Edwards trusted Louisiana State Police to “do the right thing” and took a hands-off approach in police matters, even after Black motorist Ronald Greene died in a violent confrontation with...
Mar 16 2022 // San Antonio police clashed with a crowd that gathered after three police officers fatally shot a man they said pulled out a gun while they tried to arrest him.The man was wanted on two felony warrants, including assault of...
Mar 15 2022 // A former New Hampshire state trooper who was caught on video punching a man following a 2016 car chase has settled with the driver.Andrew Monaco had resigned and pleaded guilty to simple assault charges in 2016 in an...
Mar 14 2022 // The Louisiana State Police have hired an outside consultant to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the scandal-plagued agency, a potentially years-long process intended to help restore public trust following a string of...