All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2021 // A proposal to place new limits on police officers’ broad immunity from civil lawsuits has rejected by Louisiana state senators, stalling a key recommendation from a task force created to suggest policy changes...
May 27 2021 // Nearly 100 more people died in traffic crashes in Michigan last year than in 2019, according to preliminary data released by the state police.The state police Criminal Justice Information Center said on May 26 that 1,083...
May 27 2021 // ROME (AP) – Police arrested three people Wednesday in the cable car disaster that killed 14 people in northern Italy, saying workers placed a clamp on the emergency brake to deactivate it as a patchwork repair –...
May 24 2021 // The family of a 16-year-old boy fatally shot by Honolulu police last month sued the city and unidentified police officers on Friday, alleging negligence, assault and battery.The lawsuit filed by Akiwine Sykap, grandmother...
May 19 2021 // The city of Dubuque, Iowa, will pay more than $1.8 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by a former police captain who accused the city and police chief of fostering a culture of sexism in the...
May 19 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. said on Tuesday it is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.The company had halted the practice for one year starting in June...
May 17 2021 // A woman forced to the ground by two sheriff’s deputies in an arrest recorded by her son. Demonstrators tear-gassed and hit by rubber projectiles while protesting the death of George Floyd. A man stunned with a Taser...
May 13 2021 // A Sparks, Nev. police officer who is accusing the city of violating his free speech rights is seeking $1 million in damages after he was suspended for four days for making comments on his private social media account that...
May 12 2021 // A former Kentucky officer who was fired from the Lexington Police department is alleging in a lawsuit that a culture of racial discrimination plagues the department and contributed to his dismissal.Jervis Middleton, who is...
Apr 28 2021 // A circuit judge should have dismissed civil claims against West Virginia State Police by a teenager who alleged excessive force when he was beaten during a traffic stop while handcuffed, the state Supreme Court ruled last...
Apr 27 2021 // Alabama will create a database to track disciplinary actions and excessive force complaints against law enforcement officers, a measure aimed at weeding out “bad apples” in the profession.Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey...
Apr 21 2021 // A five-member board of civilians is being established to review complaints of police misconduct in Alabama’s largest city, Mayor Randall Woodfin said Monday.The Civilian Review Board, which was recommended by a task...
Apr 19 2021 // Texas police will serve search warrants on Tesla Inc. on Tuesday, April 20, to secure data from a vehicle that crashed on the weekend, killing two people, a senior officer told Reuters.Mark Herman, Harris County Constable...
Apr 15 2021 // A Black man who was arrested when facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter has sued Detroit police, seeking compensation for the humiliating incident and restrictions on how the...
Apr 9 2021 // Los Angeles will pay nearly $1.6 million to settle three lawsuits involving alleged wrongdoing by the city’s police department, a newspaper reported.The City Council voted 12-1 this week to approve the payouts, which...
Apr 8 2021 // Two Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation that would ban police from using chokeholds and require body-worn cameras for officers in every department statewide, among other things.The bill proposed by Sen. Jonathon...
Apr 5 2021 // An industrial accident claimed the life of a worker in western Pennsylvania, authorities said.Allegheny County police said emergency personnel were called shortly after 10:30 a.m. Friday to Alpha Aeromatics in O’Hara...
Mar 30 2021 // A construction worker was killed when a trench collapsed on him while he was working in a residential development in the Hudson Valley community of Woodbury, New York, police said. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a...
Mar 23 2021 // A Northern California city has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit by the daughters of an unarmed Black man killed by police in 2016, the family’s attorneys said.The federal wrongful death lawsuit they...
Mar 19 2021 // For the second time in a week, the U.S. government’s road safety agency is sending a team to investigate a Tesla crash in Michigan.This time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is sending a special...