All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 21 2023 // ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) – Northern Illinois police have seized a carnival ride as they continue investigating a Sunday incident in which a 10-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was thrown from his seat.After the...
Jul 21 2023 // A Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for killing a baby in 1994 has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven and six now-former police officers involved in his arrest.Adam Carmon, 51,...
Jul 19 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who says she was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed.Latasha Smith, 49, was in bed on Dec. 11 when an officer from the state-run Capitol...
Jul 13 2023 // A Northern California man who was left paralyzed after he was slammed to the ground during a traffic stop won a $20 million settlement, one of the largest in the state`s history, officials announced.Gregory Gross, an Army...
Jul 3 2023 // Hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing reports on the race and ethnicity of pulled-over motorists, according to an audit released...
Jul 3 2023 // Atlanta Police Department motorcycles were damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside a training facility early Saturday, officials said.The Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a...
Jul 3 2023 // The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and racism” within...
Jun 29 2023 // Florida law enforcement pushed back this week against a nationwide surge in auto thefts, announcing that 23 people were arrested for their alleged participation in a crime ring that forged vehicle identification numbers...
Jun 26 2023 // Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law...
Jun 26 2023 // At the same time as traffic fatalities increased and motorists’ driving habits deteriorated, law enforcement officers were issuing fewer citations for traffic violations, data analytics company TransUnion says in a...
Jun 20 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Jun 19 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Justice Department alleged Friday that Minneapolis police have systematically discriminated against Black and Native American people for years and often violated constitutional rights following...
Jun 19 2023 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) – The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and...
Jun 16 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Jun 8 2023 // Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule in their favor in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021.The family of Lymond Moses is suing...
Jun 7 2023 // Shoppers at a Florida mall managed to pull two children out of a burning car after their mother left them alone while she shoplifted, police said.The vehicle caught fire May 26 outside the Oviedo Mall, just northeast of...
Jun 6 2023 // Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a June 2020 protest in Massachusetts’ second-largest city over the killing of George...
Jun 5 2023 // The Vermont city of Burlington announced Friday that it has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shoved by a police officer, fell backward and hit his head on a wall, knocking him...
May 30 2023 // While dealers and manufacturers are dealing with the sharp rise in thefts of Kia and Hyundai automobiles, police departments around the South and Midwest have begun offering free steering-wheel locks for owners of the...
May 25 2023 // A top U.S. regulator said on Tuesday there is no way to police all cryptocurrency fraud because there is so much, though her agency is working on several big cases.Christy Goldsmith Romero, one of five commissioners at the...