Police news

• Virginia Reverses New Concealed-Carry Restrictions, Governor and Legislature Compromise on Gun Shows

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and state Republican leaders have announced a rare bipartisan compromise on gun laws for the state. It reverses Virginia's recent decision to stop recognizing concealed-handgun permits from 25 states that have less stringent gun permit laws. That decision had been announced by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring in December and had not yet taken effect.In exchange, the deal requires state police "to be present at every firearms show in the Commonwealth to pe
  
  Read more

• Video: Homeless Suspect Slashes Throat of CHP Officer in San Francisco

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Homeless Suspect Slashes Throat of CHP Officer in San FranciscoA California Highway Patrol officer was stabbed at the entrance to the Bay Bridge and a fleeing suspect arrested in San Francisco’s South of Market area Tuesday morning.Officers originally responded to a call of a pedestrian on the Essex on-ramp near the site of a homeless encampment at around 9:30 a.m.A suspect was encountered at the scene and apparently slashed the CHP officer's throat followin
  
  Read more

• Video: Dutch Police Train Eagles to Take Down Drones

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Richmond Officer Shot in Foot Pursuit, Suspect in CustodyNo matter how many regulations are put in place, drones are cheap enough now that frequent misuse is becoming the norm. There’s no good way of dealing with a dangerous drone: you can jam its radios to force it to autoland, or maybe try using an even bigger drone to capture it inside a giant net like police are planning to do in Japam. In either of these cases, however, you run the risk of having the drone go com
  
  Read more

• Report Slams Maryland for "Confused" Baltimore Riot Response

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maryland's handling of the civil unrest in Baltimore last spring was hampered by the inexperience of some emergency management staff and resulted in slow payment to vendors and reliance on inaccurate information during the riots, according to a new state report.In some instances, the confusion jeopardized relationships with vendors or left them waiting months for payment for services provided, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency report found. And at times during the unrest, officials h
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Fired Michigan Officer Sentenced in Beating of Motorist

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Wayne County (MI) Circuit Court Judge Vonda Evans sentenced Inkster police officer William Melendez to 13 months to 10 years behind bars.Melendez sat stoically in court Tuesday as Evans, in usual fighting form, unleashed a lengthy discussion of the acts he was convicted of.“You utilized your Dirty Harry tactics and used excessive force to arrest him,” Evans told the officer.Evans said she got letters from various people testifying to Melendez’s high character and past ac
  
  Read more

• Chicago to Train Officers, Dispatchers in Crisis Intervention

  02-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five years after closing six of the city’s 12 mental health clinics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is stepping up crisis intervention training for Chicago Police officers and 911 operators to improve the city’s response to emergencies involving people suffering from mental illness.The police shootings of Laquan McDonald in October 2014 and Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones in December 2015 are only the most recent examples of incidents where deadly consequences might have been avoided if polic
  
  Read more

• NYPD Sergeant Dies of Apparent Heart Attack on Job

  02-02-2016 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NYPD Sgt. Patrick Divers, of Levittown, was conducting a narcotics investigation with a narcotics team in Brooklyn this morning, when he began to experience chest pains.The 51-year-old was rushed to Woodhull Medical Center in cardiac arrest, but could not be saved.Divers made more than 1,000 arrests and earned 35 recognition awards during his service with the NYPD. He graduated from St. John's University, the Associated Press and News 12 report. 
  Like this story? Want to know why tens of th
  
  Read more

• NYPD Lieutenant Stabbed in the Arm by Emotionally Disturbed Woman

  02-02-2016 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An emotionally disturbed woman stabbed an NYPD officer trying to make an arrest in Brooklyn Monday morning, plunging a kitchen knife into the cop so violently that the blade broke off in his arm, officials say.Lieutenant Wojciech Niebrzydowski was stabbed inside a building on East 18th Street at about 11:15 a.m., police said.The officer had been called to the address by a social worker who was unable to get inside the woman's apartment. When Niebrzydowski went inside, authorities say, the woman
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Monitor to Submit First-Year Plan for Cleveland Police Reform

  02-02-2016 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The city of Cleveland must devise a new use-of-force policy and have officers trained to implement it by the end of 2016, according to the first-year plan for a consent decree aimed at reforming the troubled Cleveland Police Department.The monitoring team hired to oversee the consent decree was scheduled to submit the plan to U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. on Monday. Cleveland and the U.S. Justice Department agreed last year to allow the court to oversee police reform aft
  
  Read more

• Massachusetts Chief Helps Foil Bank Robbery Getaway

  02-02-2016 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Attleboro (MA) Police Chief Kyle Heagney doesn’t shy away from getting into the action on patrol in addition to his administrative duties.Heagney apprehended two bank robbery suspects Monday after a wild, 15-mile chase through Norton and Taunton, which ended when the chief and other officers boxed-in the suspects.The suspects, 18-year-old James Bennet-Werra of Stoughton and Deurique Mendes, 31, of Easton, are expected to be held overnight in jail at the police station pending arraignment T
  
  Read more

• Who should pay Granby police officer, injured at police academy, if he can't return to work? - MassLive.com

  02-02-2016 14:43 via
  MassLive.com
  Who should pay Granby police officer, injured at police academy, if he can't return to work?
  MassLive.com
  Granby Police Officer Shawn Rooney is seen recuperating after being struck in the eye with a truncheon during a Western Mass. Police Academy class. (Family photo). Print Email · Jim Russell | Special to The Republican By Jim Russell | Special to The ...
  

• Police Accidentally Release Murder Suspect, Realize Mistake a Day Later - TheBlaze.com

  02-02-2016 14:25 via
  TheBlaze.com
  Police Accidentally Release Murder Suspect, Realize Mistake a Day Later
  TheBlaze.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County authorities say they've accidentally released an inmate awaiting trial for a gang-related murder. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said Monday that 37-year-old Steven Lawrence Wright was mistakenly ...and more »
  

• Police release photos of armed robber in Gary - Chicago Sun-Times

  02-02-2016 12:25 via
  Chicago Sun-Times
  Police release photos of armed robber in Gary
  Chicago Sun-Times
  Surveillance photos of a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a restaurant in Gary, Indiana on Jan. 19. | Gary police. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a restaurant last month in Gary ...and more »
  

• Police are using eagles to take out rogue drones - CNBC

  02-02-2016 11:59 via
  CNBC
  Police are using eagles to take out rogue drones
  CNBC
  In the Netherlands, police are teaming up with raptor training company Guard From Above to deploy eagles to take out dangerous drones from the sky. A video released by the Netherlands' national police force shows an eagle swooping on top of a drone and ...
  Trained eagle destroys drone in Dutch police videoWashington Post
  Dutch Police Trained an Eagle to Attack Illegal DronesTIME
  Dutch police are training eagles to grab drones from
  

• Retiring Ohio police officer offered auxilary job to keep K-9 partner - Fox News

  02-02-2016 10:11 via
  Fox News
  Retiring Ohio police officer offered auxilary job to keep K-9 partner
  Fox News
  A just-retired Ohio police officer has been offered a compromise that would allow him to keep his K-9 partner after the city of Marietta rebuffed his attempts to buy the dog. City officials told a news conference Monday that officer Matthew Hickey, 57 ...and more »
  

• Seattle Police Arrest 3 Boys in Deadly Shooting at Homeless Camp - New York Times

  02-02-2016 07:06 via
  Seattle Police Arrest 3 Boys in Deadly Shooting at Homeless Camp
  New York Times
  Three teenage boys were arrested in Seattle on Monday in connection with a shooting last week at a homeless encampment known as the Jungle that left two people dead, the police said. The suspects, ages 13, 16 and 17, were arrested at a homeless ...
  Police: 3 teens arrested in connection with shooting at 'Jungle' homeless campKOMO Newsall 184 news articles »
  

• CMU art student tagged by police as prolific graffiti criminal - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  02-02-2016 06:15 via
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  CMU art student tagged by police as prolific graffiti criminal
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Max Emiliano Gonzales, 22, of Bloomfield was responsible for using spray paint or thick indelible markers to write “GEM,” “312,” “BTK” and variations of those characters on walls, utility poles, bridges and other structures over the past couple of ...and more »
  

• Police Say Chicago Homicides Climbed Dramatically in January - ABC News

  02-02-2016 05:34 via
  ABC News
  Police Say Chicago Homicides Climbed Dramatically in January
  ABC News
  FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2015 file photo, Chicago interim Police Superintendent John Escalante speaks at a news conference in Chicago. On Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, Escalante said he doesn't know why homicides and shootings climbed so dramatically in ...
  Chicago homicides climbed dramatically in January, police sayFox Newsall 475 news articles »
  

• Police Department Identifies Officer Pulled Over For Allegedly Speeding - CBS Local

  02-02-2016 05:24 via
  CBS Local
  Police Department Identifies Officer Pulled Over For Allegedly Speeding
  CBS Local
  MIAMI (CBSMiami) — A Miami-Dade police officer pulled over by a woman who said he was speeding has been identified by his department. With a determined stride, and video evidence in hand Claudia Castillo walked into the Miami-Dade Police internal ...
  What happens when you pull over a police officer?Christian Science Monitor
  Miami driver records police officer allegedly speedingLocal 10
  CAUGHT
  

• Shawna Cox: Insider helped police arrest Bundy group - kgw.com

  02-02-2016 03:03 via
  kgw.com
  Shawna Cox: Insider helped police arrest Bundy group
  kgw.com
  BURNS, Ore. -- Despite the release of an FBI video of the final moments of the life of Malheur occupier Lavoy Finicum, disputes remain within the movement over the manner in which he was killed. In the latest development, witness to the shooting Shawna ...
  Son of Oregon occupier killed by police calls shooting 'grossly wrong'KSL.com
  Witness: Insider helped police arrest Bundy groupKTVBall 976 news articles »
  

• Retired Officer to Keep K-9, No Auction Planned

  02-02-2016 02:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A retired police officer in Ohio will get to keep his K-9 partner if he becomes an auxiliary officer, city officials in Marietta announced, amid fears that the dog would be put up for auction, reports the New York Daily News.Matthew Hickey's campaign to keep his partner, Ajax, generated more than $65,000 in online donations via a GoFundMe page.But city officials, speaking at a Monday press conference, said fundraising and social media efforts were unnecessary – and there was already a plan
  
  Read more

• Alabama Police Hunt 'Armed and Dangerous' Kidnap, Robbery Suspects - NBCNews.com

  02-02-2016 01:31 via
  NBCNews.com
  Alabama Police Hunt 'Armed and Dangerous' Kidnap, Robbery Suspects
  NBCNews.com
  A $10,000 reward was offered Monday as police across the country were hunting for an "armed and dangerous" couple accused of kidnapping an Alabama woman at gunpoint during a home invasion Sunday morning. Police in the Birmingham suburb of ...
  Police Hunt for Missouri Pair Linked to Alabama Crime SpreeABC News
  Police hunt for Missouri pair after woman abducted from Alabama homeCBS News
  Police ID suspe
  

• Officials announce plan to allow Marietta Police officer to keep K9 partner - NBC4i.com

  02-02-2016 01:19 via
  NBC4i.com
  Officials announce plan to allow Marietta Police officer to keep K9 partner
  NBC4i.com
  Officer Matt Hickey retired suddenly last Monday, January 25, 2016. Then he learned he might not get to keep his K9 partner, Ajax. Social media exploded this weekend with more than $60,000 being raised via GoFundMe.com to help the pair stay together.
  The Internet raised $50000 to help a retired police officer keep his K9 partnerMashable
  Ohio police officer raises money to have K-9 retired with himAOL
  

• Justice Department to investigate San Francisco police - CNN International

  02-02-2016 00:53 via
  CNN International
  Justice Department to investigate San Francisco police
  CNN International
  (CNN) The Justice Department and San Francisco officials on Monday announced a review of the city's police department training and practices. The review by the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS. office comes about two ...
  Justice Department launches investigation into San Francisco police forceWashington Post
  Feds to review San Francisco Police Department after fatal
  

• Video: Retired Ohio Officer's K-9 Set to Be Auctioned Off

  02-02-2016 00:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Retired Ohio Officer's K-9 Set to Be Auctioned OffRetired Marietta, OH, K-9 Officer Matt Hickey says he's spent every day for the past three years with his partner Ajax. But this bond could be broken forever, reports WBNS.It all started when Hickey decided he wanted to retire. Hickey is 57 and Ajax is going on 6. Ajax has the potential to work six more years."I was under the assumption I would end up with the dog [when I retired]," he said.Hickey says he offered to pay the city $3,500, wh
  
  Read more

• Police swarm Katherine Clark's home after apparent hoax - The Boston Globe

  02-02-2016 00:14 via
  The Boston Globe
  Police swarm Katherine Clark's home after apparent hoax
  The Boston Globe
  It was supposed to be a quiet evening. The kids had gone to bed and US Representative Katherine Clark and her husband had settled in, watching “Veep,” on Sunday night. Suddenly, police lights engulfed their Melrose home. Advertisement. Clark was ...and more »
  

Follow @Police_News_US on Twitter!