• 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Police face new scrutiny for use of Tasers after deadly incidents

    Police face new scrutiny for use of Tasers after deadly incidents

    Jul 17, 2023 10:30 PM EDT

    For many years, police use of force against people of color, especially Black Americans, has been under intense scrutiny. Tasers, also known as conducted electrical or energy weapons, may be ranked below guns on the spectrum of police force, but using them has resulted in deaths. John Yang reports. A warning: some images in this...

  • Shooting in North Dakota leaves 1 police officer dead, 2 critically injured

    Shooting in North Dakota leaves 1 police officer dead, 2 critically injured

    Jul 15, 2023 03:24 PM EDT

    ... a motorcycle backfiring. She said gunshots didn’t cross her mind at the time. Police and other agencies across the region posted sympathies for Fargo police on Facebook. “Thinking of our brothers and sisters in Fargo,” a post from the South Dakota Fraternal Order of Police said. The Glenwood Fire ...

  • Kenyan religious leaders call for repeal of new tax hike amid protests, police killings of civilians

    Kenyan religious leaders call for repeal of new tax hike amid protests, police killings of civilians

    Jul 14, 2023 08:45 PM EDT

    ... group announced the next protest would take place next Wednesday, and as Ruto declared it would not be allowed. Human rights watchdogs have asserted that police killed as many as 10 people in the latest protests this week, while a police official told The Associated Press that officers killed at ...

  • France celebrates Bastille Day with pomp, a tribute to India and extra police to prevent new unrest

    France celebrates Bastille Day with pomp, a tribute to India and extra police to prevent new unrest

    Jul 14, 2023 04:38 PM EDT

    ... had long withered by Friday's Bastille Day celebrations. A nearby Monoprix supermarket was still boarded up, and the walls near the intersection where the police shot and killed the teenager were still tagged with words of anger: “Vengeance for Nahel,” anti-police slogan “ACAB,” and “Death to the king ...

  • Zimbabwe police bar opposition party from holding a rally, increasing election tensions

    Zimbabwe police bar opposition party from holding a rally, increasing election tensions

    Jul 09, 2023 10:49 PM EDT

    BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Opposition party supporters in Zimbabwe chanted and sang freedom songs outside a courthouse Sunday following a decision to ban them from holding a rally six weeks before elections. The court in the town of Bindura upheld Friday's police order that the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change ...