A Maryland man who admitted to hitting a police officer with a stick on Jan. 6, 2021, has sued the officer and the police department in Washington for allegedly violating his constitutional rights. Officer Kevin Peralta struck David Alan Blair in the head once and elsewhere multiple times. Despite the strikes being illegal, no officers…

CHICAGO—Four teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain last weekend as she was heading home from work, authorities said Wednesday. Nineteen-year-olds Joseph Brooks and Trevell Breeland, Jakwon Buchanan, 18, and a 16-year-old boy face charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in the killing of Officer…

A police chief has vowed to “root out” predators within her force after one of her officers was jailed for taking pictures of a teenager’s breasts. South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Lauren Poultney said “wrongdoing and poor standards” would not be tolerated within her ranks after the jailing of now-resigned police officer Paul Hinchcliffe on…

An Indiana police officer and his wife, who struggled for years to conceive, adopted their second daughter: a newborn baby girl who was anonymously surrendered to a local hospital. The devout couple thanks God for gifting them the family of their dreams in his perfect timing. Nurse Shelby Marie Faltynski, 35, and her husband, police…

BRISTOL, Conn.—Two police officers who were shot dead in Connecticut had apparently been drawn into an ambush by an emergency call about possible domestic violence, authorities said Thursday. A third officer was wounded in the gunfire. State police said in a release that the 911 call Wednesday night about a dispute between two siblings appears…

BRISTOL, Conn.—Two police officers who were shot dead in Connecticut had apparently been drawn into an ambush by an emergency call about possible domestic violence, authorities said Thursday. A third officer was wounded in the gunfire. State police said in a release that the 911 call Wednesday night about a dispute between two siblings appears…

The Bronx man who shot Middletown police officer Evan Barone two years ago was sentenced by an Orange County judge to 58 and a half years in state prison on Oct. 12. The 31-year-old defendant, Desean Owens, got 40 years for attempted murder in the first degree and another 18 and a half years for…

The Missouri Supreme Court has set a Nov. 29 execution date for a man who shot and killed a suburban St. Louis police sergeant in 2005. The court announced Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, 36, is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the death of 43-year-old Kirkwood Police Sgt. Bill McEntee. Johnson, who was 19…

CLEVELAND—A woman was convicted Wednesday of murder in the shooting of an off-duty Cleveland police officer during a carjacking on New Year’s Eve. Tamara McLoyd, 19, of Garfield Heights, faces a potential life term with no chance for parole when she is sentenced later this year. She had confessed to shooting Shane Bartek, 25, but…

One of the biggest investigations ever into the way police forces in England and Wales investigate domestic abuse allegations against their own officers has found there are “systemic deficiencies” and has recommended a series of improvements. But a joint report by the College of Policing, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service…