Category: Police News

Chicago TribuneCommunity policing panel starts work to help Chicago, policeChicago TribuneThe 12-person Community Policing Advisory Panel, first announced in October, is to present recommendations at the end of March to help make community policing “a pillar" of Johnson’s crime-fighting strategy for 2017, said Chicago police spokesman …and more »

CBS LocalQuincy Police Officer Due In Court After Armed Standoff In RaynhamCBS LocalRAYNHAM (CBS) – A veteran Quincy police officer will be in court Tuesday after he was arrested following an armed standoff in Raynham overnight. Raynham officers were called to Officer Keith Wilbur’s home on Britton Street around 9 p.m. Monday for a …Quincy officer arrested after standoff with Raynham policeMy Fox BostonDozens of guns removed from officer’s home after standoffWCVB Bostonall 21 news articles »

NBC New YorkCitywide Manhunt for BMW Driver Who Fled NJ Police, Crashed in SoHoNBC New YorkPolice are searching for the man they say fled police in New Jersey, sped through the Holland Tunnel and crashed into another car in SoHo. Authorities say he got out of his mangled car and took off into Manhattan on foot. Katherine Creag reports …and more »

Police: Woman dies after Auburn Gresham crashChicago Sun-TimesA woman died after crashing her SUV into two other vehicles and a fence Tuesday morning in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, according to Chicago Police. She was driving a Mitsubishi SUV west on 83rd near Halsted at 7:19 a.m. when she …and more »

NBCNews.comOrlando Gunman’s Wife Noor Salman Accused of Misleading PoliceNBCNews.comA federal indictment against the wife of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was unsealed on Tuesday, charging she “aided and abetted" her husband’s support of ISIS and misled police. Noor Salman, 30, was arrested Monday in California, where her …Wife of Orlando nightclub gunman accused of misleading FBI, policeChicago Tribuneall 762 news articles »

Police: Man posted on wife’s Facebook to cover up killingFox NewsORLANDO, Fla. – A Florida man killed his wife and tried to cover up the crime by making posts on her Facebook page, investigators said Tuesday. An Orlando police report said 42-year-old George Joseph McShane was arrested Tuesday after officers found …and more »

KING5.comMeet Seattle Police’s first openly transgender copKING5.comSEATTLE – Seattle Police has been recognized nationally for its recent progress in protecting LGBT rights. Now the department has its first openly transgender police officer. “I didn’t always know I wanted to be a cop,” Officer Tori Newburn said. “I …and more »

TheBlaze.comNational police leader on Obama’s history of not backing cops: ‘No one is sorry to see this guy go’TheBlaze.comNational police leader on Obama’s history of not backing cops: ‘No one is sorry Law enforcement officers salute as President Barack Obama arrives at the annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn …

Washington PostPolice: Conn. politician said he no longer has to be ‘politically correct,’ pinched woman’s groinWashington PostPresident-elect Donald Trump ran his 2016 campaign, in part, as a tweet-from-the-hip response to political correctness — a censoring groupthink which, to its detractors, demands arcane gender pronouns and the complete annihilation of “Merry Christmas.and more »

WIREDNorway’s Reindeer Police Are Here to Save the DayWIREDThere are 180,000 reindeer in Norway, and 15 people whose only job is to police them. Gianmarco Maraviglia spent one week last spring with the reindeer police, a branch of the Norwegian Police Service that monitors reindeer herding in Finnmark and …