LA Police Chief Revises Car-Shooting Rules
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Ten days after an officer shot to death a 13-year-old who backed a stolen vehicle into a police car, the city Police Commission on Wednesday approved limits on when officers can shoot at moving vehicles.
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The New Orleans police chief, reeling from the deaths of six people over the holiday weekend, said Monday that he would ask the governor to keep National Guard troops in the city past the end of the year, when their mission to help patrol hurricane-damaged neighborhoods was supposed to end.
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Business & money: Anger follows introduction of rules that mean victims can no longer report incidents directly to police.
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A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use "no-knock" warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs.
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New York's mayor says he will support the city's police chief, after officers shot dead an unarmed black man.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a comprehensive plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high-crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street for illegal weapons, all in a desperate effort to...
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported.
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GRETNA, La. - Now in Jefferson Parish: Tasercams. Any time a sheriff's deputy turns off a stun gun's safety, a tiny camera will roll.
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LOS ANGELES  - A quarter-century ago, nearly everything the Police did was magic. But Wednesday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, the band had trouble catching that lightning in the bottle, as new arrangements of its classic material kept the show from living up to the legend.
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Federal authorities will investigate last week's police involved shooting death of an elderly woman in Atlanta, the city's police chief announced Monday.
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Britainâs top police officer today called for an urgent updating of the law to protect householders who use force to defend their homes against criminals - even if it involves killing the intruder.
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Police officers involved in shootings would face mandatory sobriety tests under new policies prompted by the killing last year of an unarmed man on his wedding day.
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A state official yesterday proposed sweeping changes to the state's safe driver insurance plan that he said would slightly lower the rates of good drivers, sharply increase the rates of bad drivers, and remove surcharges from driving records faster.
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The city's police commission unveiled a plan Tuesday aimed at discouraging officers from using flashlights as weapons, except in emergencies.
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Report today on De Menezes shooting to recommend 15 changes to police tactics.
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LOS ANGELES -- A man barricaded himself in a house after telling police he had killed three relatives, then opened fire on a SWAT team Thursday. Five people, including an officer and the gunman, were killed, police said.
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Police beefed up patrols around national landmarks Wednesday, a day after the District of Columbia&#039;s police chief declared a crime emergency in response to a string of violence that included the killing of a British activist.