• Authorities charge 10 current and former California police officers in corruption case

    Authorities charge 10 current and former California police officers in corruption case

    Aug 17, 2023 11:54 PM EST

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities have charged 10 current or former police officers at two Northern California departments in a federal corruption investigation, they said Thursday as they outlined a range of allegations from engaging in fraud aimed at boosting pay to violating residents' civil rights. Ismail J. Ramsey, U.S ...

  • Editor of Marion County Record discusses possible motives behind police raid of newsroom

    Editor of Marion County Record discusses possible motives behind police raid of newsroom

    Aug 14, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    ... your world shrinks a bit. She lived in that house for almost 70 years. It was her castle. It was her safe place. To have police officers come and stand and watch her for two hours waiting for other officers to come and search her material, because we had to ...

  • Rural Kansas police raid newspaper office amid rampant 'anti-press rhetoric'

    Rural Kansas police raid newspaper office amid rampant 'anti-press rhetoric'

    Aug 14, 2023 12:32 PM EST

    ... hired in late April as Marion's police chief after serving 24 years in the Kansas City police, did not respond to questions about whether police filed a probable cause affidavit for the search warrant. He also did not answer questions about how police believe Newell was victimized. Press freedom ...

  • News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    Aug 07, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, a judge in Minnesota sentenced the last former police officer convicted of state charges in George Floyd's death, leaders of the military coup in Niger closed the country's airspace, Russian shelling in Ukraine struck towns near the front lines killing at least seven ...

  • Justice Department announces investigation of Memphis police practices after Tyre Nichols death

    Justice Department announces investigation of Memphis police practices after Tyre Nichols death

    Jul 27, 2023 05:53 PM EST

    ... violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed.And in March, the department found Louisville police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discrimination against the Black community following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of ...

  • Miami-Dade police chief hospitalized after incident with gun at hotel, mayor says

    Miami-Dade police chief hospitalized after incident with gun at hotel, mayor says

    Jul 26, 2023 09:15 PM EST

    Ramirez, 52, remained in stable condition on Wednesday after undergoing surgeries, the mayor said. One of his children is a sergeant with the Miami-Dade police force. WATCH: Police face new scrutiny for use of Tasers after deadly incidents “He continues to receive outstanding medical care in Tampa, surrounded by ...

  • French national police chief says officers under investigation 'have no place in prison'

    French national police chief says officers under investigation 'have no place in prison'

    Jul 24, 2023 11:13 PM EST

    ... of support to police from himself and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. But he went further, saying he thinks that “ahead of an eventual trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed faults or grave error in his work.” While police officers must account ...

  • Louisville, Kentucky names first Black woman police chief

    Louisville, Kentucky names first Black woman police chief

    Jul 21, 2023 03:06 PM EST

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville's new police chief will be the first Black woman to lead the embattled department full-time, bringing fresh hope to a force under a federal consent decree after years of scrutiny following the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020. Louisville interim police chief Jacquelyn ...

  • Las Vegas police serve search warrant in Tupac Shakur killing investigation

    Las Vegas police serve search warrant in Tupac Shakur killing investigation

    Jul 19, 2023 12:04 AM EST

    ... hop, was killed on the night of Sept. 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was 25. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said the search warrant was executed Monday in the nearby city of Henderson. It's unclear what they were looking for and where ...

  • Lawmakers approve bill allowing French police to locate suspects by tapping their devices

    Lawmakers approve bill allowing French police to locate suspects by tapping their devices

    Jul 18, 2023 09:56 PM EST

    ... lawmaker from the far-right National Rally party, said. The justice minister proposed the high-tech hunt for suspects as an alternative to long-standing police surveillance practices, such as wiretapping a suspect’s vehicle and house, which he deemed no longer viable and increasingly dangerous for investigators. “The technique ...