“Police” on The Daily Caller

(CNN) – Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said. (more)

Across the country, cities small and large are building up their police forces. In the name of terrorism preparedness, local municipalities are stockpiling arms, tanks, and whatever Army surplus goods they can apply federal grant money to acquire, the Center for Investigative Reporting found. (more)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico teacher asked a 13-year-old girl to stop talking with her friend and move to another seat. The girl refused. The teacher called the police. (more)

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief is making no apologies. (more)

An Annapolis, Md. man has been arrested after exposing fake genitalia to women on the campus of Anne Arundel Community College. (more)

A veteran Orange County sheriff’s deputy feared for the safety of two young girls sitting in a parked car when he shot and killed a Marine sergeant in a dark parking lot near San Clemente High School, authorities said Friday. (more)

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)