Terror probe highlights police-Muslim tensions

The arrest of a Queens imam who investigators had considered a trusted partner was a blow in more ways than one for law enforcement.

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Some Muslims rethink close ties to law enforcement

Mohammad Qatanani's mosque was full of FBI agents the night before he was to find out if he would be deported.

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Michigan AG: Drug trial was filled with perjury

Michigan's attorney general filed charges Tuesday against a judge and a prosecutor he said worked together to allow two police officers to lie on the witness stand in a drug trial, allegations that he said "undermine the credibility of our justice system."

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Unknown graves at Fla. reform school investigated

A former inmate at a Florida reform school known for severe beatings decades ago says he remembers walking into a laundry room, peering through a foggy dryer window and seeing a boy tumbling inside. Afraid of retribution, Dick Colon walked away.

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Fla. authorities say they can't prove Foley case

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley won't face state or federal criminal charges for sending salacious computer messages to underage male pages, in part because authorities couldn't prove the authenticity of the chats, officials said Friday.

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A Kensington man was found guilty of criminal threatening for holding an open pocket knife at his side while asking two people who were walking behind him at midnight, "Why are you following me?"

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Law enforcement and social service agencies, family members, governmental departments, religious institutions, and an entire community are attempting to place blame on each other for perhaps the most heinous ongoing crime spree in Cleveland's history.

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MOSCOW - WHEN a police officer posted a video on YouTube complaining of rampant abuse in Russian law enforcement, it seemed like a lonely voice in a sea of social media.

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Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.

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Hearing that the alleged Raj Rajaratnam-led insider trading ring was detected using wiretaps and that the U.S.

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John Timoney, the Irish immigrant who distinguished himself in NYC's storied NYPD, is ending his 7-year tenure as Chief of the Miami police. The incoming Mayor has made it clear he did not want Chief Timoney to stay on.

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California's compassionate use law was passed over 10 years ago. The intended purpose of the legislation was to allow patients who would medically benefit from the use of medicinal marijuana, to grow or purchase the herb for their own use.

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Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year NYPD veteran, ordered an officer on the ground to fire his stun gun. Morales collapsed and fell 10 feet to the sidewalk, landing on his head. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead on Sept. 24, 2008.

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A local TV station is reported to have a video showing deputies playing Wii bowling at a suspect's home while executing a search warrant. The following is a comment/review that I submitted to The Metro (London) after originally reading the story:

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Earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in a controversial law enforcement program known as 287(g).

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Here 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?

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On Monday, Rolando Ruiz's lawyer released dashcam video of an April 30 incident in which Ruiz can be seen with his hands on the hood of a car when a police officer approaches him and Tases him in the neck.

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You see, in an effort "to minimize controversy, increase effectiveness and provide enhanced risk management" (i.e.

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has ordered a review of a little-known Bush administration policy requiring some defendants to waive their right to DNA testing even though that right is guaranteed in a landmark federal law, officials said.

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The attorney for Richard Heene - now suspected of staging the incident that had the nation thinking his 6-year-old son was trapped in a runaway balloon - said that his clients are ready to turn themselves in. "Do not do the perp walk," Richard Lane urged police.

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South Georgia Police Officers continue to use new technology in their work. The next time you talk with a Dougherty County Police Officer, you could be on camera.

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Teams of gunmen attacked three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, a major escalation in an audacious wave of terror strikes in this U.S.-allied country.

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A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge dismissed rape and murder charges against Ralph Armstrong on Friday based on the misconduct of a Dane County prosecutor who concealed evidence of Armstrong's innocence.

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"Anyone can tweet, but the truth is, sometimes speech can be criminal," John Burkoff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Multiple local law enforcement agencies are using satellite-based tracking devices, without warrants, to keep a record of where and when suspects under investigation drive.

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A former St. Louis police officer who admitted stealing cash, planting drugs, charging an innocent man and lying to cover it up was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison.

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A 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.

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Investigators seeking to uncover terrorist plots for years have walked a fine line between keeping tabs on the Muslim community and alienating the same people who could serve as an early warning signal.

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Trooper accused of assaulting second citizen in less than five months uses same attorney that is hired by the state to represent his superior officer...it is speculated by legal analysts that this may have led to a conflict of interest toward corrective measures in his first assa …

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The son of a 100-year-old woman, who was found strangled in her nursing home bed with a plastic bag over her head, says his mother was still active and loved shopping.

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