Dec 22 - By Associated Press
Police say a central Pennsylvania man has his belt to thank for escaping injury in a weekend shooting. Police in Lancaster said the unidentified victim was driving when he was fired at Sunday evening. Bullets struck the car and one passed into the cabin, hitting his belt before stopping.
Jun 16 - By Associated Press
A New Jersey man was left wondering where his $3,000 cash had gone after a job in Pennsylvania. Turns out, the answer was blowin' in the wind. A Harrisburg-area police officer gearing up to catch speeders early Saturday spotted several $100 bills fluttering in the breeze along the road.
Apr 30 - By Associated Press
New York City police have begun handing out small cards telling people why they were stopped and searched on city streets.

Apr 4 - By Christopher Torchia, Associated Press Writer
One of President Barack Obama's first stops on his visit to Turkey will be the imposing mausoleum of the national founder and independence war hero whose personality cult dominates the nation seven decades after his death.
Jan 15 - By Colleen Long, Associated Press Writer
New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80 percent of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday.
May 30 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
Civil rights advocates have won access to the New York Police Department's internal, electronic database to search for any racial bias among hundreds of thousands of pedestrian street-stop cases.
May 10 - By Associated Press
A white police officer was disciplined for acting "in a discourteous manner" when he confronted a black motorist who turned out to be one of the highest-ranking commanders in the New York City Police Department, an agency spokesman said Saturday.
May 7 - By asdf, Associated Press Writer
A civil liberties group sued Wednesday in a challenge to the NYPD's practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of people each year for questioning, saying it is racially biased.
Nov 22 - By Marcus Franklin, Associated Press Writer
A national Latino law enforcement group on Thursday blasted an outside report that concluded the New York Police Department demonstrated no clear racial bias with its aggressive "stop-and-frisk" policy.
Nov 20 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
The New York Police Department demonstrated no clear racial bias with an aggressive stop-and-frisk policy that resulted last year in more than 500,000 stops of pedestrians, according to a new study released Tuesday.
Jul 11 - By Associated Press
There were flashing lights atop his SUV and what appeared to be a police badge in his hand, but it was the man he tried to pull over who was the real police detective.