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#1 Police Investigate How Texas Church Shooter Obtained Rifle Despite Mental Illness

Feb 15 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a...

#2 Florida Police Union Blasts Prosecutors Over Officer Charges in 2019 Shootout

Jul 31 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police union leader blasted prosecutors Monday for bringing a criminal case against four officers over a 2019 shootout with two robbers that left a UPS driver and a passerby dead,...

#3 Lockbit Hackers’ Swagger on Display After Police Leak Identities Online

Feb 21 2024 // One of the world’s biggest criminal hacking gangs woke up on Tuesday to a startling discovery: Law enforcement, after taking over their main website on Monday, were now threatening to reveal their personal details...

#4 Kansas Newspaper Seeks $10M Over Police Raids

Apr 3 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to...

#5 New York Police Target Critics, Including Judges and Journalists, Using Social Media

Mar 11 2024 // The first “NYPD: Most Wanted” video was meant to be intimidating.Over a pounding soundtrack, the montage cuts among stock images and body-camera footage of actual police raids. A fake gun discharges. Real...

#6 Police Investigate Motive Behind Shooting at Joel Osteen’s Megachurch

Feb 14 2024 // Several law enforcement agencies are actively investigating the motives behind a Sunday shooting at pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations. The...

#7 South Korea Police Search Jeju Air, Airport Operator Over Fatal Plane Crash

Jan 2 2025 // South Korean police said on Thursday they had raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of their investigation into Sunday’s crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on...

#8 Sister of Mississippi Man Who Died After Police Stop Rejects Settlement

Apr 30 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman who sued Mississippi’s capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors, her...

#9 Police Officer’s Family Sues Girlfriend Accused of His Death and Bars That Served Her

Aug 27 2024 // Karen Read, whose recent high-profile trial for the death of a Boston police officer she was dating ended in a mistrial, is now facing a wrongful death suit brought by the late officer’s family that alleges she...

#10 State Troopers Arrested for Alleged Commercial Driver’s License Bribery Scam

Jan 31 2024 // Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers are among six charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to give passing scores to certain Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) applicants, including...

#11 Mississippi Judge Affirms Settlement After 62-year-old Died in Police Encounter

Jun 6 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge has ordered the enforcement of a lawsuit settlement between Mississippi’s capital city and the family of a man who died after police officers pulled him from a car while searching for...

#12 Jersey Shore Police, Pols Weigh Holding Parents Responsible for Kids’ Rowdy Behavior

Jun 18 2024 // Parents should be held civilly or criminally responsible for the actions of their children that create disturbances or damage in public places, a group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers said Wednesday...

#13 Family of Chicago Man Killed in Police Shooting Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Apr 30 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit last week, accusing the department of...

#14 Death of 4 Officers in Charlotte Shows Risks Police Face When Serving Warrants

May 3 2024 // (AP) Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to function. But there is no guarantee of safety for police officers knocking on their doors.The grim risks came into stark relief Monday when...

#15 Jury Finds Vegas Police Fabricated Evidence in Killing, Awards $34M to Exonerated Woman

Dec 19 2024 // A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit.Kristin...

#16 Police: Athletic Director Used AI to Frame Principal With Racist Remarks in Fake Audio

May 2 2024 // A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said.Authorities...

#17 Akron to Pay $4.8M to Family of Black Man Killed by Police

Oct 23 2024 // The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out his car window, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the...

#18 Residents Await Explanation After Small Maryland Town Suspends Entire Police Force

Mar 26 2024 // A small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has suspended its entire police force pending the results of an investigation by state prosecutors, a largely unexplained decision that has left residents shocked, skeptical...

#19 Probe of Connecticut State Police Traffic Stops Shows No Intentional Racial Profiling

Feb 6 2024 // Inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut State Police was largely the result of data-entry mistakes and other mishaps, not an intentional effort by troopers to submit bogus information,...

#20 Jury Awards $700k to Seattle Protesters Jailed for Anti-Police Slogans on Barricade

Jun 27 2024 // Four protesters who were jailed for writing anti-police graffiti in chalk on a temporary barricade near a Seattle police precinct have been awarded nearly $700,000 after a federal court jury decided their civil rights were...