All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2014 // An Alabama state board this week rejected a $1 million claim filed by the parents of a slain Auburn University student, who said their daughter might still be alive if the university had maintained its own police force at...
Nov 13 2014 // How an organization responds within 72 hours of a data breach can be critical.Take the case of GlobalMart, a hypothetical Boston-based international company that has had a hypothetically horrendous 2014, ricocheting from...
Nov 13 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by two Shelby, Mississippi, police officers who said they were fired for refusing to ignore an alderman’s criminal activity.The ruling...
Nov 9 2014 // Attorneys say an Atlanta-area city has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of a man who died after police officers used stun guns on him.Chris Stewart, a lawyer for the family of Gregory Towns Jr., said the city of East...
Nov 7 2014 // Galveston police have arrested a man who they say crashed into two police cars while driving drunk.KHOU-TV reports 66-year-old Raymond Oakley nearly struck a Galveston police officer who was working at the scene of an...
Nov 5 2014 // Sherwood, Ark., authorities are investigating a weekend fire at the historic Roundtop Filling Station, built in 1936 and known for its inverted-cone-shaped roof.Sherwood police spokesman Lt. Jamie Michaels told the...
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer.Staley had been heading north on...
Oct 20 2014 // A former New London, Connecticut, police officer fired over accusations he leaked an internal police document and later rehired has resigned following his arrest on charges he fraudulently collected workers’...
Oct 16 2014 // Police in Dover, Delaware, have doled out more than 300 tickets to distracted drivers for texting and talking on their cell phones.The 316 tickets were part of a 12-day blitz that ended Sunday, Oct. 12, and eclipse the...
Oct 9 2014 // The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana has proposed charging the town of Sorrento $353,832 for the first year with a possible increase of up to 5 percent the next year to provide policing services if...
Oct 8 2014 // City officials in Tuscaloosa say they’ve informed representatives of the Uber ridesharing service that drivers will soon face arrest unless the company complies with the city’s demands.Tuscaloosa police Sgt....
Oct 7 2014 // The family of a man who died after a struggle with police outside of a Moore movie theater in February has filed a claim against the city.The Oklahoman reports that Luis Rodriguez’s family filed a tort claim against...
Oct 1 2014 // Benwood, West Virginia Police Chief Frank Longwell is calling for changes to a state law regarding radar after his city lost state funding for speed enforcement.The law doesn’t allow police in Class IV...
Sep 30 2014 // Columbus Police Chief Tony Carleton has rewritten the department’s pursuit policy to allow shift supervisors to decide if officers are to chase a suspect if he flees.Previously, officers were instructed not to chase...
Sep 28 2014 // A man who was shot after authorities say he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and was interviewed by detectives on...
Sep 24 2014 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the metropolitan area remains under threat of terrorist attack, and that commuters will see an increased security presence in the city and at transit points as a result.Cuomo and New...
Sep 16 2014 // Police in a small village in Michigan’s Saginaw County have resumed patrols after securing liability insurance. Oakley Police Chief Robert Reznick obtained the insurance and reinstated patrols over the weekend. The...
Sep 11 2014 // Officials in a small Saginaw County village have shut down their police department until it gets liability insurance.The Saginaw News reports the Oakley Board of Trustees voted 5-1 on Sept. 9 to disband the force of about...
Sep 3 2014 // The north Florida town of Waldo has long had a reputation as a speed trap, and it’s no wonder. A small segment of highway that runs through Waldo requires drivers to speed up and slow down six times: 65 mph becomes...
Aug 29 2014 // When the call came from an officer who needed help facing an armed robber at a fast-food restaurant, two members of a reality television show riding along with Omaha police hustled to record the confrontation.In the...