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A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban was seen being patient with the cat, whose image was captured during a recent traffic stop, then finally gently booting the kitty away.
A man will spend 1 1/2 years in prison for breaking into the car of an off-duty New York City police officer who was then killed in a friendly fire shooting.
The Dutch are about to learn how Italian police catch speeders.
The Texas alcohol agency under fire for its raid at a gay bar rarely punishes its officers for misconduct, and officers' supervisors are usually the ones who conduct disciplinary investigations. Experts say that method increases the likelihood of flawed probes.
A man has pleaded guilty to breaking into the car of an off-duty New York City police officer who was then killed in a friendly fire shooting.
Police say a man impersonating an officer with a flashing red light in his car has been arrested after he pulled over the wrong driver — the mayor of Shreveport, La. Police think the suspect was using the in-dash light to maneuver through traffic Monday night in northwest Louisiana. Mayor Cedric Glover says he pulled over when the drove behind him, but the fake officer then sped away.
A retired police sergeant has pleaded guilty to robbing two banks in holdups that earned him the nickname "The Grandpa Bandit."
A white police officer who killed an off-duty black colleague in a friendly fire incident that raised questions about racial profiling will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Thursday.
Warren Evans once thought he might tame scandal-plagued Detroit City Hall as mayor. As the new police chief, he's focused on bringing order to streets he has called the "wild, wild West."
In small towns, one more cop really does make a difference.
Police fatally shot a man after he allegedly beat a woman with a skateboard and stabbed a pit bull during a rampage Friday morning.
The New York City Department of Correction is looking into an allegation that the man charged with breaking into police officer Omar Edwards' car was beaten by guards at the Rikers Island jail.
The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel says it was "entirely inappropriate" that he made a comment about President Barack Obama needing to be careful when visiting Harlem, where a black police officer was fatally shot by a white colleague last week.
After Omar Edwards achieved a dream by graduating from the New York Police Department academy, he was so proud he wore his badge around his apartment.
Joey Niagra died as a result of 24 stab wounds, not to mention being hit with a metal chain. He’d been in a biker bar with his girlfriend Rita and watched his pals Jackass and Hooper fight over spilled beer on the pool table. He’d greeted everyone in the bar with a hearty hello, especially bartender Rudy. But things were not quite as they seemed, Joey Niagra was actually undercover cop Jack Nettles. But who had dropped the dime on Nettles?
Laid-off factory worker Dorie Clark had a choice: settle into a life of leisure whittling wood or lazing around the fishing hole, or find a new job.
Major studios like the idea of making dark-hearted, audacious comedies, but more often than not, these movies wind up going soft. The suits worry about alienating test audiences with “unlikable” characters, big stars don’t want to risk their fan base by taking things to an edgy place, and we generally wind up with films that start out with a bold concept but then water it down with life lessons and redemptions and general wishy-washiness.
New Orleans police say a man at first described as a police impersonator who ordered women to undress in their homes has turned out to be a rookie officer.
A suburban Chicago man is accused of impersonating a police officer and extorting money from a victim for a year, authorities said Saturday.
Authorities in California say a man wanted for a store robbery was arrested when he showed up to take a test to become a police officer.
An Arizona newspaper has filed suit accusing a local punk rock band of copyright infringement because it used a slain police officer's photo to illustrate its album.
The biggest crime of all in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is not the bank heist that goes down at a New Jersey mall on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather, it's the egregious way in which Kevin James' innate likability goes to waste.
Police say a Connecticut man playing police officer picked the wrong person to pull over. Israel Gomez was arrested Tuesday after pulling over an off-duty Hartford police lieutenant.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted a temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Virginia to consider whether lower courts correctly weighed his claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him.
Affectionate cat distracts policemanA police department in Texas in the US has released footage of an over-affectionate cat distracting a policeman trying to issue a ticket to a motorist. The video, filmed by a camera in officer Keith Urban's patrol car, shows the cat crawling up his leg and then onto his head.
DUI suspect to cop: 'Dude, I do this every night'A northwest Indiana man was arrested early this morning near Portage for driving with a blood-alcohol level almost four times the state's legal limit of .08 percent. "Dude, I do this every night; I'm straight up and not drunk!" Zachary R.
Senior Citizens Arrested for "Illegally" Playing TennisHere we go again. How many stories like this are we going to get? Stories of senseless tennis violence. And what do you get when this happens?
Former Hillside cop is sentenced for stealing $15K from state homeless fundAn August 2007 indictment claimed Pedreiras helped his girlfriend, a landlord at the time, submit four false applications to the program that named either an acquaintance, 36-year-old Tashime Mitchell of Irvington, a fictitious person or one of Pedreiras' relatives as a tenant …
Police stop more than 1 million people on streetA teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street.
Ex-NYC cop surrenders after 6-hour standoff on LI -A retired New York City police sergeant who was convinced his Long Island home was being invaded has surrendered after opening fire inside the house.
Dolton cop caught on camera in student's beating is in jail on rape charge -- chicagotribune.comA Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense and is now in an Indiana jail on an unrelated rape charge.
Officer Shoots Woman, Pit Bull Playing -A police officer shot a woman and the dog she was playing with when the officer thought the dog was attacking the woman, witnesses told KPRC Local 2.
Roundup of New Police ProfessionalismFrom a blogger I respect who follows stories of police abuse of power.
The murky world of confidential informantsGordon Mehler, a former federal public corruption prosecutor in New York and now a defense attorney who has written a well-received book on criminal law, said informants are "universally despised" but "seen as necessary evil because they provide access to criminal organizations t …
Cop Beats, Shoots, Arrests Wrong Man-- Now Back on the JobA man who was shot by an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer last year is suing the city and the now-reinstated officer for false imprisonment and excessive force.
Off-duty cop charged in DWI crash that killed pastor's daughter: police, fellow Finest a passengerAn off-duty cop who was driving drunk struck and killed the daughter of a Brooklyn pastor early Sunday, police said.
Drowning man saved by raincoat A Vienna cop used his raincoat to save a drowning man after he fell into the Danube.
Louisiana Cop Who Beat Handcuffed Woman Is Back on the JobThis is a followup to this earlier story. Last month, the Shreveport Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board voted to reinstate Willis on the police force. He'll get full back pay and benefits for the year-and-a-half he was fired.
Bad cop: complete with guns, hookers, total incompetenceHere's a bad cop story, complete with prostitutes, oral sex and total imcompetence.
Former officer used women for oral sex A former Grand Haven Department of Public Safety officer who was arrested and charged with two felonies Thursday used his position to receive oral sex from two women over a period of several years, court documents show.
Is it fair to say that man "took him out"? Is it right for the President of our Nation to be drinking beer at all?
HIV-positive drifter gets 15 years for biting copFor threatening to kill with his illness then biting a Miami cop, HIV-positive drifter Johnson Jamerson will serve 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Cop investigated for feeding gorillas Pop-Tarts A police officer in America is under investigation over allegations that last year he snuck into a zoo after hours to feed gorillas Pop-Tarts.
Lessons from my 4:30 a.m. encounter with a PCP-freakIt had never occurred to me that I could be seriously hurt or even killed during that time I spent working a beat car. I was young enough to reassure myself that I would live forever and, after all, I was the law, not the bad guy.
Detroit cops sued for forced cavity searchesEleven Black men have sued two White Detroit police officers they claim raped them in public, performing forced anal cavity searches. Several say officers Michael Osman and Michael Parish also fondled their genitals, and one says his 15-year-old daughter was forced to watch.
The Largest Street Gang in AmericaWhy Americans increasingly distrust law enforcement.
Five years ago, I enjoyed dinner at DC Coast, a fine K-Street restaurant in Washington DC. When the valet brought my car around, he pulled it into the main thoroughfare instead of the parallel side street where cars are parked.
Jury say woman's disorderly-conduct arrest unwarrantedA Bucks County woman who had been robbed and left bleeding outside the Tweeter Center in Camden just didn't behave well as a crime victim, or so police thought.
Police officer jumps into moving lorry after driver falls ill A police officer jumped into a moving lorry and slammed on the brakes after the driver suffered a suspected stroke.
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