All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2022 // The latest summary of internal investigations against Vermont State Police troopers listed 11 cases that led to the resignation of two troopers, the retirement of a third, and in other cases found that no violations took...
Feb 1 2022 // Twitter has taken legal action against a rule, coming into force in Germany from Tuesday, that obliges social media firms to block or delete criminal content quickly and report particularly serious criminal offenses to the...
Jan 27 2022 // A municipality in New York may be held liable for wrongful action by an employee even though the employee was granted individual immunity.A police detective found liable by a jury for a false arrest was entitled to...
Jan 26 2022 // The family of a tourist who died in Las Vegas after being strapped to a restraint chair in jail following his arrest on a trespassing charge has agreed to a $2.35 million settlement with the police department, their...
Jan 19 2022 // Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people—including a New York City police officer, an attorney and four physicians—in two indictments that allege they schemed to defraud auto insurers out of $100 million by bribing...
Jan 7 2022 // A 65-year-old Northern California man was paralyzed after being slammed to the ground during a traffic stop where police officers used “pain compliance” techniques and expressed disbelief when he repeatedly...
Jan 4 2022 // A federal judge has approved a partial settlement of a lawsuit filed by the parents of a man who was shot and killed by Kansas City police in 2018.Court records do not include the amount of the settlement paid to the...
Dec 17 2021 // The Chicago Council on Wednesday voted to pay nearly $3 million to a woman who was handcuffed while naked by police officers during a 2019 raid of her home.The unanimous vote to pay Anjanette Young $2.9 million was widely...
Dec 2 2021 // Seattle, Washington will pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the children of a pregnant Black woman who was fatally shot by two white Seattle police officers in 2017.Karen Koehler,...
Nov 23 2021 // A person arrested early Sunday on suspicion of firing a gun at three buildings in Baltimore County appeared to be having a mental health crisis, police said.The Baltimore Sun reports that no injuries were reported in the...
Nov 19 2021 // The child of a Black man who was fatally shot by Southern California police in 2018 – and whose death spurred lawmakers to enact a state law that decertifies officers who act criminally or with bias – has settled a...
Nov 18 2021 // A federal jury has awarded $2 million to a high-ranking Boston police detective who said in a lawsuit against the department and her former supervisor that she was the victim of gender discrimination.The jury Monday after...
Nov 16 2021 // Georgia authorities are on the lookout for a man who they say submitted false insurance claims for $42,000 in personal property that was never stolen. Arrest warrants have been issued for Tyrone Bernard Briscoe, 35, of...
Nov 2 2021 // The family of a man who was fatally shot by two Topeka police officers in September 2017 has filed a federal lawsuit against the city seeking $10 million for alleged civil rights violations.The parents of Dominique White,...
Oct 26 2021 // Kansas law enforcement agencies have received hundreds of complaints of bias over the past 10 years, but records available to the public show only two alleging racial bias resulted in consequences for officers, an...
Oct 21 2021 // A Gary man is suing northwest Indiana police more than a year after he alleged that officers sprayed him with pepper spray and knelt on him when they encountered him near a protest over George Floyd’s death.Randall...
Oct 20 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of police officers accused of using excessive force in two cases involving the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity.The high court found that in both cases, appeals courts...
Oct 15 2021 // The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $515,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the estate of Iosia Faletogo, who was shot and killed by police after a foot chase across Aurora Avenue North on New Year’s Eve...
Oct 12 2021 // Authorities are investigating whether two suspicious fires in Vermont are connected.One of the fires happened Saturday at an auto repair shop in Putney, Vermont State Police said. The blaze caused extensive damage to the...
Oct 7 2021 // A former employee of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was sentenced to 78 days in jail, to be spent on weekends, for accepting more than $40,000 in bribes in exchange for providing personal identifying information...