President Joe Biden is urging protests in Tennessee to remain peaceful as officials plan to release video of an arrest that led to a motorist’s death. Bodycam video of the encounter with Tyre Nichols, 29, will be published on Friday and lawyers for his family said it will show him being severely beaten. Five now-fired […]
Over a 24-hour period last Wednesday, several police officers from departments across the country were shot in the line of duty. In Decatur, Illinois, two police officers were shot while making a traffic stop, and officers shot and killed the suspect, police said. In Philadelphia, three SWAT team members were shot while executing a warrant, […]
From coast to coast in 2020, liberal politicians pledged support for defunding police departments following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. San Francisco Mayor London Breed was among the politicians in major cities that joined the chorus of leaders diverting funds from police that summer, only to reverse course the following year. “We will […]
Support for the Black Lives Matter movement is plummeting, including among African Americans, according to a new poll. As the country prepares to mark the second anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, which sparked a nationwide reckoning on race and policing, the University of Massachusetts Amherst survey found that support for the movement has […]
Violent crime reached a 14-year high in Seattle last year as the city’s police department deals with a staffing shortage that is straining its ability to protect the community. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said during his state of the city address this week that there is funding to hire 125 new officers this year and […]
Nine Arizona police officers were wounded Friday morning – believed to be the highest number of officers shot in one day – while responding to a shooting that led to an hours-long barricaded situation, which ended with the suspect being found dead inside the Phoenix home, according to investigators. The incident began around 2:15 a.m. […]
A substitute teacher in California was caught on camera lashing out at a 13-year-old student wearing a pro-police thin blue line face mask, saying it’s the new version of the Confederate flag. “That’s not the American flag, that’s the new confederacy flag,” the substitute teacher said in the video to a student at Lyman Gilmore […]
NEW YORK CITY – The grieving widow of slain NYPD Det. Jason Rivera called out New York City’s newly elected district attorney and a system that “continues to fail us” during her heartbreaking eulogy at her fallen husband’s Friday funeral. Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera fought tears as she recalled growing up with and ultimately marrying her […]
Forty-four percent of registered voters in the July 8-9 survey said they want more police and policing activity in their community. By contrast, 7 percent of respondents said they want less police in their area while 50 percent said they want the same amount of police. A majority of Hispanic voters, 54 percent, want more […]
The Minneapolis City Council passed a budget Thursday morning that will cut its police funding by $8 million and use the money for mental health and violence prevention programs. The plan for the shifting of police funding, called “Safety for All,” follows the city council’s stalled attempt to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department earlier […]
A New Orleans police officer was shot Friday in the city’s popular French Quarter, police said. The officer was shot around 4:30 p.m., NOLA.com reported. Paramedics were called to the scene but the officer already had been taken to a hospital. The severity of the officer’s injuries was unknown. City police have not commented on […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City councilors in Oregon’s largest city have delayed a vote on an additional $18 million in cuts to the Portland police budget until after next week’s presidential election amid a heated mayoral race and mounting tension over the police handling of near-nightly protests. Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a statement after […]
