By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 10/21 — The tragedy of the Parkland school massacre framed a developing political drama in Florida’s capital,
Category: Policies & Practices
PARIS (AP) 10/06 — France’s interior minister acknowledges there were “malfunctions” that failed to prevent a deadly attack inside Paris police headquarters by a police employee.
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 09/27 — Ohio’s capital city agreed Friday to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over her arrest at a strip club last year,
By KELLI KENNEDY and FREIDA FRISARO, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) 09/25 — The sheriff suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis over the Parkland high school shooting should be reinstated,
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) 09/24 — California prison officials have halted an effort aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling and even rioting when placed together in prison recreation yards,
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 09/25 — An Orlando police officer who was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds at their schools has a disciplinary history that includes excessive force and a racial profiling allegation.
By LISA MARIE PANE, Associated Press 09/07 – Most mass shooters in the U.S. acquired the weapons they used legally because there was nothing in their background to disqualify them,
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 08/22 — The Ohio Attorney General is siding with media organizations suing for the school records of the gunman who killed nine people earlier this month.
NEW YORK (AP) 08/18 — The New York Police Department in the year ending June 30 has rejected all requests from the federal government to hold detained immigrants past their release date.
By JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 08/14 — Jail guards on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates every half-hour as required,
By NICK PERRY Associated Press, WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) 08/14 — New Zealand officials admitted Wednesday that they made a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a hand-written letter from his prison cell.
By JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 08/12 — The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released,
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 07/23 — Cellphone videos of people brazenly dousing uniformed New York Police Department patrolmen with water have sparked outrage and led police officials to urge the force not to tolerate the behavior.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, MICHAEL R. SISAK, COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS, Associated Press,
NEW YORK (AP) 07/16 — After years of silence, federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won’t bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner,
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) 07/10 — Las Vegas police learned from the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history to secure high-rise buildings overseeing open-air crowds and train more officers with rifles to stop a shooter in an elevated position,
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) 07/01 — The Florida sheriff who was removed by the governor from his elected office after a school shooting that left 17 people dead is running for his old job in 2020.Former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel filed paperwork Monday stating his intention to run in the August 2020 Democratic primary.Read more »
LOS ANGELES (AP) 06/20 — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday released video of the fatal shooting of an unarmed 24-year-old man that shows a reversing car’s door striking a deputy before he and another deputy open fire on the vehicle.Read more »
By DON THOMPSON and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) 06/21 — Newly minted Sacramento police officers held a moment of silence for a rookie gunned down while helping a woman leave an abusive home but they said Tara O’Sullivan’s death wouldn’t make them timid about doing their jobs.
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) 06/19 — Police Chief Jeri Williams promised change in her department after being booed by some of hundreds of people gathered to discuss a videotaped police encounter that has caused a national outcry.
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 06/14 — All law enforcement agencies in Florida will have to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a bill signed by Gov.