All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 23 2019 // It was about 6:30 on a Friday night in January when Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden pulled over a white Jeep Cherokee that was speeding and weaving in and out of its lane.The 47-year-old driver spoke slowly, his eyes were...
Apr 23 2019 // Apple is being sued for $1 billion in damages by an 18-year-old college student who blames the company’s facial recognition software for his false arrest and for wrongly tying him to thefts at Apple stores in several...
Apr 17 2019 // Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming years.Louisiana in July became the first state to make digital...
Apr 15 2019 // The coffee shop owner killed in a North Carolina gas line explosion was last seen in the doorway of his business after firefighters evacuated his customers and told him to leave, the fire chief said Thursday, as city...
Apr 11 2019 // The mother of a teenager who died of a gunshot to the head after police chased him into her house has filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against Las Vegas police.Taccara Brooks alleges in the case...
Apr 8 2019 // Facial recognition technology was already seeping into everyday life — from photos on Facebook to police scans of mugshots — when Joy Buolamwini noticed a serious glitch: Some of the software couldn’t detect...
Mar 28 2019 // A California jury has awarded $9 million to the family of a woman fatally shot seven times by police in Long Beach in 2017 in what the family’s attorneys say is the largest such award in city history.The federal jury...
Mar 20 2019 // A North Carolina city has paid the family of a man who was hit and killed by a speeding police car in 2017. The Charlotte Observer reports the city of Charlotte paid $950,000 in December to the family of James Michael...
Mar 18 2019 // Most states ban texting behind the wheel, but a legislative proposal could make Nevada one of the first states to allow police to use a contentious technology to find out if a person was using a cellphone during a car...
Mar 14 2019 // The family of a black man killed by a Nashville police officer filed a federal lawsuit Monday, naming the city and the white officer who fatally shot the man from behind as he ran with a gun.Attorney Joy Kimbrough said the...
Mar 13 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the first two months of 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to...
Mar 12 2019 // The Honolulu City Council has agreed to pay $550,000 to a retired police lieutenant who claimed that Police Chief Susan Ballard had tampered with recruits’ test scores when she was in charge of the training...
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday.The Yavapai County...
Mar 1 2019 // Rhode Island police have arrested a man they say was driving under the influence when he struck more than 40 other vehicles.Police say 45-year-old Christopher Paolissi, of Foster, was “zig-zagging” his pickup...
Feb 28 2019 // Authorities say an 82-year-old church bus driver is charged with driving while intoxicated after five people were injured when a bus returning from a Chicago Bulls game went off the road in northwestern Indiana. Indiana...
Feb 26 2019 // Massachusetts State Police say two people have died after a small plane crashed and caught fire at Mansfield Municipal Airport. Saturday’s crash occurred at about 12:36 p.m., according to the state police...
Feb 25 2019 // It was still dark on a Friday morning in November when a California Highway Patrol officer started following a Tesla Model S on Route 101 between the San Francisco International Airport and Palo Alto. The gray sedan was...
Feb 22 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court will not revive a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a black man shot to death by a white police officer in Mississippi.Antwun “Ronnie” Shumpert was killed in June 2016 in...
Feb 19 2019 // The city of Billings has settled a lawsuit filed by a man whose rotator cuff was torn when a police officer tackled him, wrongly identifying him as a crime suspect.The Billings Gazette reports that Robert Bassett will...
Feb 4 2019 // Hours of Service, Other Safety Exemptions for Livestock Haulers Raise ConcernsMidwest Center for Investigative Reporting It was sometime around 4 a.m. on a cool, spring morning when James McGilvray lost control of his...