All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 29 2015 // Fierce opposition from police across the state derailed efforts to pass a bill that allows open carry of handguns on the streets of Texas.The bill appeared ready to pass the House and be sent to Gov. Greg Abbott to sign...
May 26 2015 // A long-running effort in Connecticut to extend workers’ compensation benefits to police officers who receive mental health injuries on the job cleared a key hurdle on May 22 after years of defeat in the General...
May 26 2015 // The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office could lose its ability to oversee a public risk pool it’s had issues with for years, if a last-minute amendment to the state Senate budget remains in place.The New...
May 20 2015 // The Insurance Council of Texas has joined the Tomball Police Department in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing auto thefts and burglaries.The program involves the creation and distribution of signs that read,...
May 19 2015 // The city of Charlotte has reached a $2.25 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the family of a black man shot to death by a white police officer in 2013.City Attorney Bob Hagemann announced at a news conference last...
May 19 2015 // An audit has found Asheville Police wrote nearly 500 speeding tickets using radar guns that were not calibrated. The city released audit results last week to media outlets. It included a note from interim Police Chief...
May 13 2015 // Following an investigation into a complaint received from the Shreveport City Attorney’s Office, the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit charged a firefighter with insurance fraud.Michael Keel...
May 12 2015 // Investigators say they are close to finding the person or persons responsible for setting at least seven Birmingham homes on fire over the past few months. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Chief C.W. Mardis tells WBMA-TV someone...
May 7 2015 // State police across New England launched the region’s first coordinated crackdown on speeding and failing to wear seat belts.Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday announced the “New England Drive to Save...
May 7 2015 // A North Carolina police officer who got a free cup of Starbucks coffee is suing the company for $50,000 after he spilled it and got burned. WRAL-TV reports attorneys said in court this week that Raleigh officer Matthew...
May 5 2015 // A group of 12 Colorado Springs, Colo. female police officers are suing the city for what they say is an unfair fitness test that discriminates against women over the age of 40.The Gazette of Colorado Springs reported that...
May 1 2015 // Kinsale Insurance Co. has launched a new law enforcement/police professional product. Eligible accounts include boroughs, cities, counties, townships and villages’ law enforcement departments serving populations of...
May 1 2015 // South Carolina prosecutors want state law to de-emphasize video in drunken driving cases, saying too many are being dismissed because of imperfect recordings.But defense attorneys counter the solution is better officer...
Apr 28 2015 // Recordings from cameras worn by North Carolina police officers or attached to their vehicle dashboards and used for criminal investigations would be confidential with some exceptions in legislation getting support at the...
Apr 24 2015 // Ferguson, Mo., was sued by the family of an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a police officer triggered nationwide protests, while subsequent deaths at the hands of police fueled a national debate about how...
Apr 24 2015 // A former Alabama police chief is one of two men charged with insurance fraud for an October house fire.Sixty-two-year-old Thomas Fuller and 47-year-old Glenn Fuller were arrested Saturday and taken to DeKalb County Jail,...
Apr 23 2015 // Virginia’s Fairfax County agreed Tuesday to pay nearly $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit after one of its police officers shot and killed a man in the doorway of his home two years ago.Officer Adam Torres...
Apr 23 2015 // Vermont is one of a growing number of states looking at following Colorado and Washington’s lead by legalizing marijuana, but there’s a problem. How can police identify those too stoned to drive?The Vermont...
Apr 20 2015 // New York State Police are launching a traffic safety campaign aimed at minimizing crashes involving teen drivers.“The Empty Chair” driving safety campaign starts Monday and runs through Friday. The empty chair...
Mar 31 2015 // Authorities in eastern Missouri are trying to determine just how many trucks were stolen in a theft ring that struck several Missouri towns along Interstate 44. The Washington Missourian reports that police now believe at...