All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2016 // A West Texas city has settled a 2015 federal lawsuit that alleged police discriminated against Hispanics and women in hiring entry-level officers.Lubbock agreed to pay affected individuals to settle the Department of...
Aug 25 2016 // Honolulu taxpayers are reportedly responsible for paying nearly $10 million to settle dozens of misconduct allegations against police officers and the police department since 2005.City documents obtained by The Honolulu...
Aug 24 2016 // The police chief of a California school district has sued his employers, claiming he faced a hostile work environment after blowing the whistle on alleged misuse of a criminal database by district employees.KBAK-TV...
Aug 23 2016 // A Connecticut man has been awarded $10,000 in damages after a federal judge ruled that he had been beaten by a police officer after a drug fueled car chase.Donato Rinaldi, of Watertown, Conn., filed the suit in 2014...
Aug 12 2016 // A police “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said was real ammunition used by mistake at an...
Aug 8 2016 // Two men jailed in Houston and accused of using pirated computer software to steal more than 100 vehicles may have exploited an electronic vulnerability to advance auto theft into high-tech crime.Michael Arce, 24, and Jesse...
Aug 3 2016 // A federal judge has awarded $50,000 in damages to a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty.U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled...
Aug 3 2016 // Boston Police Commissioner William Evans is faulting Massachusetts lawmakers for failing to require the fingerprinting of drivers for ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft.The House and Senate approved regulations...
Jul 28 2016 // Louisiana State Police say eight people have been arrested in connection with an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving staged traffic crashes in Jefferson Davis Parish.A state police news release says the investigation...
Jul 27 2016 // Vermont State Police say a drunken driver was playing “Pokemon Go” on his cellphone when he crashed his car.Officers responded to a report of a crash at an intersection in Rutland Town at around 8:15 a.m. last...
Jul 26 2016 // A western New York man struck by a Rochester police cruiser earlier this year has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the department.The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported that 24-year-old Brian Norford claims in the...
Jul 25 2016 // Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas on July 7 to protest police...
Jul 22 2016 // The city of Providence, Rhode Island has agreed to pay $210,000 to settle a police brutality lawsuit filed by a Central Falls man who was beaten in 2009 while in handcuffs and left in a coma.WPRI-TV reported that the City...
Jul 15 2016 // The “Pokemon Go” craze across the U.S. has people wandering into yards, driveways, cemeteries and even an off-limits police parking lot in search of cartoon monsters, prompting warnings that trespassers could...
Jul 15 2016 // Law enforcement has released the Pulse nightclub in Orlando to its owner just a month after it was the scene of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.Officials with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said...
Jul 14 2016 // Civil rights groups and activists sued Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies over their treatment of protesters rallying against the police shooting death of a black man, saying officers used excessive force and physically...
Jul 14 2016 // Police in Tuscaloosa say several young men broke into a gun store and stole between 10 and 30 guns.Police Capt. Brad Mason tells the Tuscaloosa News the break-in happened early in the morning on July 12. Mason said the men...
Jul 12 2016 // In the wake of protests in various cities and the police shootings in Dallas, the city of Philadelphia has purchased a law enforcement liability policy in case it or its police officers are sued over their performance of...
Jul 12 2016 // Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest police...
Jul 11 2016 // An Indianapolis suburb removed social media pages for the city and its police department after a lawsuit accused it of violating residents’ First Amendment rights by removing posted comments.The American Civil...