Police officers who shot and killed an innocent Brazilian they mistook for a suicide bomber will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Monday, in a decision criticized by both Brazil and the victim's family. Complete Story
Three police officers used a shoelace and a pair of scissors to deliver a baby Thursday.
Two officers removed a handcuff from a suspect's wrist, apparently to provoke an assault, then repeatedly struck the man in a scuffle taped by cameras inside a police department, authorities said Thursday.
A city task force says the Los Angeles Police Department is too small and needs to undertake major reforms to avoid another crisis like a corruption scandal that rocked the ranks seven years ago.
Six law enforcement officers were indicted Tuesday on charges alleging they tipped off a suspected drug ring about police raids in exchange for drugs.
Prosecutors said Monday they would announce July 17 whether any police officers are to face charges in the shooting death of a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a suicide bomber.
Massive police reinforcements will be on duty for the World Cup final and France's interior minister urged revelers not to spoil the party by getting out of hand.
Three police officers were suspended over Web site comments about their jobs and derogatory language about gays and the mentally disabled.
A police officer killed a motorist on the crowded Las Vegas Strip after a dispute over the driver's noisy car stereo.
When the National Guard first rolled into town 10 months ago, New Orleans was descending into anarchy, a city besieged by high water, fires, looting and other lawlessness.
Assailants armed with automatic rifles shot and killed a top policeman and his bodyguard as they drove home in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, authorities said Tuesday.
Eight percent of citizen complaints that police officers used too much force turned up enough evidence to justify discipline of an officer, a Justice Department survey of large state and local forces reported Sunday.
A former police officer was sentenced to 139 years in prison Friday for robbing drug dealers and selling the drugs himself.
The city named a 20-year department veteran to lead the police department Thursday, six days after the former chief was demoted following a scandal involving a relationship with a desk clerk.
Despite the use of private data brokers by federal and local law enforcement agencies, the FBI said Thursday that practices by such companies to gather Americans' private telephone records without warrants or subpoenas are almost certainly illegal.
Even as others cited the Fifth Amendment, a former data broker enthralled Congress on Wednesday with a bizarre, behind-the-scenes lesson on how this shadowy industry covertly gathers Americans' telephone records without subpoenas or warrants.
Coalition soldiers accidentally fired on an unmarked police car in eastern Afghanistan, killing three Afghan policemen and wounding three, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Private data brokers who covertly gather Americans' telephone records without subpoenas or warrants on behalf of banks, bail bondsmen and even federal and local police are bracing for intensive scrutiny by Congress.
A man beaten outside a party attended by off-duty police officers filed notice Monday that he would be suing the city for $30 million.
Portland's mayor demoted the city police chief to captain on Friday following an investigation into a scandal that included sexually explicit e-mails and allegations of abuse of power.
A suburban police officer left a submachine gun in his unmarked vehicle while he attended a baseball game downtown, and returned to find it stolen, police said Thursday.
Two civil liberties groups sued the Baltimore police Thursday, claiming they arrest tens of thousands of people illegally each year for minor infractions and submit innocent people to humiliating treatment.
Excerpts from the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Thursday that police armed with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence for trial even if they don't knock.
The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting, a sign of the court's new conservatism with Samuel Alito on board.
The city has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2003 fatal crash caused by one of its traffic officers.