Policing

A Philadelphia police officer was shot in the face and critically injured while helping fellow SWAT officers serve a warrant at a city home, authorities said Monday.

With few accurate roadside tools to detect pot impairment, police have to rely largely on field sobriety tests developed to fight drunk driving or old-fashioned observation.

The department will pay a total of $97,500 and adopt Americans with Disabilities Act compliant policies.

Police identified the suspect as a man about 28 years old, who surrendered three hours after barricading himself inside the store where other people had been trapped.

The officials had been waiting to see whether federal prosecutors would bring criminal charges but decided to move forward.

The mural honors slain police Sgt. Robert Wilson III.

Video of the incident went viral. It was seen as another example of the over-policing of black youths and the misuse of law enforcement by white people.

Four years after Eric Garner was put in a chokehold by a police officer and died, NYPD says it will pursue disciplinary actions against officers involved in the case.

Footage from body cameras and surveillance cameras shows that a man who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer was armed with what appears to be a handgun.

The first phase of transfers began just after 9 a.m. Wednesday.

From January 2015 to March 2018 the amount of ICE money sent to Bergen, Essex and Hudson Counties increased 46 percent, amounting to more than $150 million.

It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken

Officer Fred Attakora was taken to a hospital in a private car with gunshot wounds to his arm and abdomen.

Philadelphia police arrest 29 demonstrators who refused to move from the entrance to the federal facility at Eighth and Cherry streets.