POLICE

Lawmakers in several states are proposing legislation that would require more training for police in how to interact with someone in a mental crisis following some high-profile deaths

Since the attack on Friday by a man who ran his car into two Capitol Police officers, local lawmakers have reacted.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed and another was injured in an attack at the U.S. Capitol. The suspect was killed by police. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Minneapolis Police Lt. Richard Zimmerman testified Friday during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin that Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was “totally unnecessary.”

A man fled Italy after a magistrate ordered his arrest for alleged drug trafficking in 2014. The man fled to the Dominican Republic and managed to avoid police for a few years until cooking videos on YouTube blew his cover.

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was videoed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck before he died.

An armed robbery suspect who barricaded himself inside a Rockland, Massachusetts, police cruiser Friday morning was fatally shot at the end of a standoff, officials said. He appeared to be exiting the vehicle with a police rifle. Over about three hours, the man robbed a 7-Eleven, evaded an officer who’d cornered him on foot, stole an officer’s police cruiser,...

Prince William County Police say they are looking for a man who used a drone to peep into the bedroom window of a Woodbridge, Virginia teenager earlier this week.   An 18-year-old reported seeing a small drone, with what appeared to be a camera, outside her second floor bedroom window around midnight while she was changing clothes. Police say the...

An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew

A Denver pilot program called STAR, or Support Team Assisted Response, is changing how the city responds to 911 calls by sending mental health workers and paramedics, rather than police, to respond to calls that don’t involve crimes.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

D.C. police released a video of a group of dirt bike and ATV riders who are being sought out in connection with a shooting on Feb. 16.

The Rochester Police Department released the body cam footage from a February arrest in which a woman is pepper-sprayed in the presence of her child. It was the latest of several incidents with Black residents that have prompted calls for changes to the department.

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire and made mass arrests Sunday as they sought to break up protests against the military’s seizure of power

A third person has been arrested in the death of a New Hampshire toddler who was found at a truck stop with fentanyl in her system last November, officials said Saturday. Dana Dolan, 24, is the final suspect accused in the nearly 2-year-old toddler’s death, and it comes only days after the child’s parents — Mark Geremia and Shawna Cote…

In a tragic event seemingly out of a horror film, a cemetery worker was killed when the grave he was digging collapsed on him Thursday morning on Long Island, police say, essentially burying him alive.

Virginia State Police are phasing out their familiar silver-gray-and-blue police sedans

Many New York City police discipline records can be made public over the objections of unions, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a decision last year by Judge Katherine Polk Failla. Unions had opposed a new state transparency law on the grounds that it would unfairly taint...

About 75 calves caused a traffic jam in LaPorte County, Indiana, as they barreled down a busy highway.

While the nation mourned the death of George Floyd, Prince George’s County paid a $20 million settlement after Corporal Mike Owen shot and killed a handcuffed William Green.  Months later, an embattled Prince George’s County police chief stepped down, and County Executive Alsobooks assembled a task force to review the troubled department. Alsobrooks announced sweeping changes for the county’s...