Police Problems and Policy

A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.

The ruling said a grand jury received bad instructions before indicting Officer Richard Haste in the shooting of Ramarley Graham.

The sharp cracks echoing from the East Bakersfield street were loud enough to jolt Ruben Ceballos from a midnight slumber. Then he heard screams.

The overhaul Friday included a demotion to captain of the acting chief, Anthony Toribio, who had held the position for just two days after Police Chief Howard Jordan shocked city leadership when he stepped down, citing health problems.

In a bid to curb rampant corruption, the Mexico state has mandated that only women are allowed to issue traffic citations.

SAN FRANCISCO -- As he shivered on a narrow iron bar 220 feet above San Francisco Bay, 22-year-old Kevin Berthia heard a voice. It did not belong to the old wounds, crushing worries and inner demons that had driven him to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Privacy groups are denouncing a federal government move to force Internet companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors that would let the FBI and other agencies snoop in on real time online communications.

Atlantic readers offer ideas including a tricameral legislature, a ban on incarcerating nonviolent criminals, and declassifying all information after 20 years.

One Pasadena police officer was killed and another lost his leg in an accident last night in Kerrville

PHOTO SOURCE: CBS Dallas Forth-Worth. Then officer Kelly Helleson caught on a dashboard camera preparing to perform a cavity search on a woman under the suspicion of marijuana possession.

Twenty-five people, including 13 guards, have been busted in a scandal featuring everything from racketeering to smuggling to an inmate impregnating female prison officers.

Senior officials will have to explain to a Senate panel their actions before and after Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s six-month trip last year to Chechnya and Dagestan.

The fact that alcohol dissipates from the bloodstream over time does not by itself allow the police to take blood over objections, the Supreme Court ruled.

The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight.

BAKERSFIELD — The FBI launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a man who was beaten by authorities amid questions over whether officials tampered with cellphone videos confiscated from witnesses.

Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn't always ...

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SAN BERNARDINO -- Two suspects in a Yucca Valley homicide led authorities on a high-speed chase Thursday that ended with a gun battle, one suspect dead, another wounded and a California Highway Patrol officer wounded.

A midnight court hearing helped a Montana prosecutor avoid spending last weekend in jail.

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A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Interim Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel has issued an apology for his role in a 1986 department-sponsored video that mocks the homeless.

The Boston Marathon bomber was read his rights and given a lawyer. Other countries have different policies for terrorism suspects.

The Senate Intelligence Committee will examine the FBI's handling of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.