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Things go better with Coke? Perhaps the jingle should be updated to “rings go better with coke” after U.K. police intercepted a massive shipment of cocaine entering the country in boxes of frozen […]

A rock band consisting of five musically-talented police officers from Astoria, Oregon took the stage at Fort George Brewery on New Year’s Eve to perform a list of popular cover songs. The musician-officers […]

The Abilene Police Department has found a special use for its equestrian officers — engaging with the community.  Nine-year APD veteran and patrol officer Jessica Watkins said the department’s mounted unit was on […]

An NYPD veteran detective has been nominated for the New York Daily News Hometown Heroes award after a long career dedicated to serving the community. Police veteran Detective Tanya Duhaney has spent her […]

The Headlines Activists demand charges against LAPD officer who fatally shot 14-year-old in North Hollywood Burlington Three Police Officers Charged in Fatal Shooting of Child Outside Football Game [Former Officer] Kim Potter guilty […]

In 1940, there were 223 state and county mental hospitals in the United States with some 420,000 patients. By 1955, the resident population had increased to 559,000 inpatients. Since then, the number of […]

Massachusetts State Trooper Jose Cabrera was on patrol when he saw a vehicle speed by at over 100 miles per hour on Route 91. When he stopped the driver, the man told him […]

An initiative launched by the Greenville Police Department in North Carolina is creating a common ground between community members and police – at the barbershop. The initiative, called Cops and Barbers, aims to […]

A Montana custom-furniture carpenter recently decided to show his patriotic spirit and support for law enforcement by donating hand-carved American flags to law enforcement officers, military and front-line hospital workers.  Bear Thomas used […]

A rookie cop at the Enid Police Department in Oklahoma made waves on social media after jumping into a reservoir to save a dog, only to find that the dog didn’t need saving […]

The Michigan House has launched a bipartisan school safety task force in the wake of the Nov. 30 Oxford High School shooting to examine safety issues and policy solutions that can prevent similar […]

Just when you think you’ve seen every slippery situation… Police officers in Clearwater, Florida, were called to a local apartment to extract a five-foot-long red-tailed boa constrictor from a couch. Terrifyingly, the snake […]

The Chicago area has reached a morbid milestone, recording an all-time high in gun deaths in 2021. In a year-end review, officials with the county medical examiner’s office stated in a news release […]

NYPD’s first female police commissioner vowed to start a “new chapter” and reduce crime with help from the community on her first day on the job. Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who is also the […]

Searching a vehicle should be done the same way every time. Especially in the age of body cameras, you do not want to find 10 kilos of cocaine under the center console and […]

Two Florida K-9s that were shot in line of duty while protecting their deputies were honored with Purple Heart awards on November 17. K-9s Endo and Ax with the Volusia Sheriff’s Office were […]

The Bradley Police Department issued a public warning about several fraudulent GoFundMe pages for one of their fallen officers. The department said the pages were created by scammers pretending to be family members. […]

Lakewood Police Officer Ashley Ferris is being called a hero after she fatally shot a man on a deadly shooting spree that took five lives and injured several others on Dec. 26. Ferris […]

The tenor of our times Terrorism — individually and collectively — has dominated and defined the tenor of our times. The liberation of Auschwitz confronted the world with a particularly stark and shocking […]

Ohio law enforcement is standing up against increasingly popular and lucrative organized retail theft in the state, but big tech has been difficult to work with. “It’s big money,” Perrysburg Township Police Department […]