I am a strong supporter of law enforcement. From time to time, however, I take issue with how enamored some law enforcement officers and agencies are with technology, sometimes to the point that they allow high-tech gadgetry to determine how they enforce the law. One police department in Florida has taken this tendency to a whole new level. (more)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag, as officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center. (more)
If you’ve ever been on a residential Washington, D.C., street at 8 a.m., you’ve probably seen a patrol car cruising slowly past a line of cars. (more)
Maryland State Police say a driver has been fatally injured in a crash while fleeing a state trooper in Pasadena. (more)
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia police officer was charged Tuesday with scamming an elderly woman she was assigned to help, authorities said. (more)
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. (more)
The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called “extraction devices” to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they’re not suspected of any crime. Naturally, the ACLU has a problem with this. (more)
A British tourist was beaten to death by officers in a Dubai police station after being arrested for swearing, it was claimed yesterday. (more)
Whoever killed four prostitutes, and possibly four other people, and then dumped their bodies in heavy underbrush along a beachfront causeway on Long Island appears to have a sophisticated understanding of police investigative techniques, according to people briefed on the case. (more)
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Police say an Ohio man has been charged with a misdemeanor for barking at a police dog. (more)
Floating in the sea of state employees who flooded Madison late last week are specks of black and blue. They are not waiting for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to end his fight against collective-bargaining privileges for state employees, but for the crowd of teachers, custodians and others to get unruly. (more)
FLORENCE – Two men who were working on renovations at the Florence Police Station are in jail after they were accused of taking 48 pounds of marijuana from the evidence locker. (more)
She told him to take off all his clothes and then follow her into the shower room at a downtown Washington massage parlor. He didn’t say no. (more)
Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused in the shooting Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, was visited by Tucson police on more than one occasion prior to Saturday’s massacre, reports The New York Times. (more)
In a video obtained by NYC the Blog, a New York police officer engages in a spirited back-and-forth with a suspect, trading insults and occasionally fighting before an arrest is finally made. (more)
The mother of a 13-year-old left in a coma after a car accident was stunned to be handed a citation by police for their daughter jaywalking. (more)
The ACLU of Pennsylvania says State Police have agreed to stop citing people for disorderly conduct when they use profanity. (more)
A public access television crew complained of police mistreatment Thursday, after trying to get a picture of President Barrack Obama. (more)
TORREON, Mexico—His grandfather was the cross-eyed cousin of Mexico’s legendary revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa. Like his famous ancestor, Carlos Villa is a hard-charging general who is charismatic, foulmouthed and not afraid to use his gun. (more)
Police said a man answered the door with his pants around his ankles when an officer followed up on a complaint that he had previously exposed himself to a mother and her children. (more)
