Tag: Law enforcement agencies
Mother sues North Carolina sheriff over son’s beating death
RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a North Carolina jail inmate who died after an assault last year is suing the sheriff and nine...
Alabama town magistrate stabbed in City Hall attack
<p>BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — A man who entered Bayou La Batre City Hall with plans to kill police officers on Tuesday stabbed the...
Washington governor signs sweeping police reform measures
SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed one of the nation’s most ambitious packages of police accountability legislation, prompted by last year’s...
Alabama town magistrate stabbed in City Hall attack
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — A man who entered Bayou La Batre City Hall with plans to kill police officers on Tuesday stabbed the...
California man gets life for killing LA sheriff’s deputy
LOS ANGELES — A parolee who pleaded guilty to the execution-style killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant in 2016 was sentenced Monday...
Case dismissed in officer’s use of pepper spray amid protest
<p>PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has dismissed charges against a former police officer seen on video lowering the mask of at least one protester...
Arizona sheriff’s immigration patrols to cost public $200M
<p>PHOENIX — The costs to taxpayers from a racial profiling lawsuit stemming from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols in metro Phoenix a decade...
California man gets life for killing LA sheriff’s deputy
<p>LOS ANGELES — A parolee who pleaded guilty to the execution-style killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant in 2016 was sentenced Monday...
Minneapolis mayor says police changes will increase safety
<p>MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced a sweeping set of public safety proposals Monday that he said would make all neighborhoods in the...
Case dismissed in officer’s use of pepper spray amid protest
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has dismissed charges against a former police officer seen on video lowering the mask of at least one protester...