Police news

• How To…Adjust to a New Agency

  09-10-2017 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It doesn't matter whether you're a rookie heading into your first orientation or a 10-year veteran, adjusting to a new agency can be tricky. There is a learning curve involving understanding an agency-specific culture, establishing new relationships, learning different policies, and navigating a new geographic location. If you aren't careful, it can be a bit overwhelming as you try to fit in. As was the case for me so many years ago, outsiders usually have the hardest time because they represent
  
  Read more

• Skin in the Game

  09-10-2017 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I'm writing this on Sunday Oct. 1. In about five hours up in Massachusetts my hometown Carolina Panthers will play their fourth game of the NFL season against the New England Patriots. I'm a huge Panthers fan. But I am also the editor of POLICE Magazine. So I have a decision to make. Will I watch the game on TV? I probably will. I have friends coming over. And I'm not a Nielsen Ratings household, so my watching or not watching will have no effect on the team or the league.Still, I am angry at th
  
  Read more

• MN Trooper Maced by Suspect

  09-10-2017 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Minnesota woman was booked into jail Friday afternoon after macing a state trooper.Lt. Tiffani Nielson says Trooper Peng Lee responded to a report of a pedestrian on an interstate highway in St. Paul. Trooper Lee located the 35-year-old woman and when he approached her, she ran. As he caught up to her, she turned and sprayed him with mace.Trooper Lee was treated at a local hospital. The suspect is facing assault charges, KARE 11 reports. 
  Like this story? Want to know why tens of thousand
  
  Read more

• NYPD Bomb Tech Details for Jury How Pressure Cooker Bombs were Disarmed Last Year

  09-10-2017 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NYPD bomb-squad detective stood on West 27th Street in Chelsea on that warm Saturday night. A pressure cooker had been found on the sidewalk, with a cellphone beside it, the two connected by wires. A woman who had called 911 initially thought it was a child’s discarded science experiment. The detective knew it was likely an explosive device — another one had just exploded four blocks away.Over his shoulder, more bad news. “There was a hotel bar, restaurant, across the
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Minneapolis Expecting Wave of Police Retirements After Super Bowl

  09-10-2017 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Minneapolis Police Department is bracing for a wave of officers retiring next spring following Super Bowl LII, prompting concern that the city won’t have enough officers on the streets with crime rates edging up in certain neighborhoods.Dozens of department veterans are waiting to “put in their papers” so they can work the big game, part of a weeklong spectacle expected to draw tens of thousands to the Twin Cities for parties, concerts and drinks, said police union Presiden
  
  Read more

• CA Officer Awarded $4.8 Million in Disability Discrimination Suit

  09-10-2017 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Los Angeles jury has awarded $4.8 million to a former South Pasadena police officer who alleged he was fired by the city because of a disability.After a two-week trial, the jury on Thursday found unanimously in favor of Timothy Patrick Green, an 18-year veteran who was dismissed from the Police Department in 2013.Green’s lawsuit said the reason given for his dismissal, dishonesty, was untrue and that the real reason was discrimination based on his attention-deficit/hyper-active disorder.
  
  Read more

• Jacksonville police identify Orange Park man found dead in Hogan's Creek - Florida Times-Union

  09-10-2017 02:47 via jacksonville.com
  Jacksonville police identify Orange Park man found dead in Hogan's Creek
  Florida Times-Union
  Jacksonville police say there was no indication of foul play in the death of an Orange Park man discovered in Hogan's Creek behind the Maxwell House coffee plant Saturday morning. Police assisted by divers recovered the body of Darrius De'Juan Kelly ...
  
  Read more

• Bodycam footage shows Utah police shoot man as he runs away - CNN

  09-10-2017 02:04 via cnn.com
  CNN
  Bodycam footage shows Utah police shoot man as he runs away
  CNN
  (CNN) The Salt Lake City Police Department is the latest US police department to come under scrutiny after bodycam footage shows an officer shooting and killing a man, even as the man appeared to be running away. An officer shot and killed Patrick ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police capture father of missing 2-week-old found dead - WSB Atlanta

  09-10-2017 01:47 via wsbtv.com
  WSB Atlanta
  Police capture father of missing 2-week-old found dead
  WSB Atlanta
  NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. - Family members say a missing 2-week-old baby was found dead Sunday. Volunteer search crews said they found the body of Caliyah McNabb in the woods in a duffel bag. The Newton County Sheriff said the child's father, Chris ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Police fatally shoot man in San Fernando - Los Angeles Times

  09-10-2017 01:27 via latimes.com
  Los Angeles Times
  Police fatally shoot man in San Fernando
  Los Angeles Times
  San Fernando police shot and killed a man during a confrontation early Sunday, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 11 a.m. in the 100 block of Harding Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is handling the ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Police officer in critical condition after crash; Teen accused of racing - WCVB Boston

  09-10-2017 01:20 via wcvb.com
  WCVB Boston
  Police officer in critical condition after crash; Teen accused of racing
  WCVB Boston
  An officer of the Somerville Police Department is in critical condition following a crash involving a teenager who was racing, officials said. Officer Louis Remigio, who lives in Tewksbury, was off-duty when he was badly injured in the crash on ...
  Police Officer Critically Injured After Crash, Teen Arrested For Reckless ConductCBS Boston / WBZ
  Off-duty Somerville Police officer involved in motorcyc
  
  Read more

• SF police escort body of officer's wife killed in Las Vegas massacre - SFGate

  09-10-2017 01:15 via sfgate.com
  SFGate
  SF police escort body of officer's wife killed in Las Vegas massacre
  SFGate
  Police escorted Stacee Rodrigues Etcheber's body from San Francisco International Airport to her hometown of Novato on Sunday, in a solemn procession honoring the wife of a San Francisco police officer and mother of two killed in the Las Vegas massacre.
  
  Read more

• Police officer killed in crash on 405 Freeway; young son survives - OCRegister

  09-10-2017 00:57 via ocregister.com
  OCRegister
  Police officer killed in crash on 405 Freeway; young son survives
  OCRegister
  Officer Matt Ward, 33, a nine-year veteran of the Cypress Police Department was killed in a three-vehicle car crash on the 405 Freeway on Sunday morning. Officer Ward, who was off duty, was traveling with his 5-year-old son on the 405 Freeway on the ...
  
  Read more

• Duterte's police have killed thousands in the Philippines. But this police chief told his officers, 'Don't kill.' - Washington Post

  09-10-2017 00:52 via washingtonpost.com
  Washington Post
  Duterte's police have killed thousands in the Philippines. But this police chief told his officers, 'Don't kill.'
  Washington Post
  BOGO CITY, Philippines — Police Chief Byron Allatog insists he is an ordinary cop. And in another time or another place, that might have been true. The 39-year-old runs an ordinary station in an ordinary city set amid the sugar cane fields of the ...and more »
  
  Read more

• Wanted Michigan man challenges police on Facebook and it backfires - WTVD-TV

  09-10-2017 00:20 via abc11.com
  WTVD-TV
  Wanted Michigan man challenges police on Facebook and it backfires
  WTVD-TV
  A wanted Michigan man challenged the Redford Police Department on Facebook saying he would turn himself in if the department were to get 1,000 shares on its next post. (Credit: Redford Township Police Department/ Storyful). WTVD. Sunday, October 08 ...
  Wanted man challenges Redford police on FacebookThe Detroit Newsall 5 news articles »
  
  Read more

Follow @Police_News_US on Twitter!