FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Police Department's second in command has been arrested in a federal drug conspiracy investigation. Deputy Chief Keith Foster, 51, is accused of distributing and possessing drugs. ...read more

Fighting back tears, a Detroit man and longtime auto worker with no criminal history, described how Inkster police officers dragged him from his car one night in January, choked him, beat him and Tasered him during a traffic stop that was caught on patrol car video. ...read more

A Polk County deputy sheriff was charged with stealing a DVD while responding to a convenience-store burglary Nov. 6, a spokeswoman said. ...read more

SPRINGFIELD - A lawyer for University of Massachusetts Amherst student Thomas Donovan on Tuesday filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against Amherst police officers, charging they assaulted and falsely arrested him for videotaping police during the Blarney Blowout last March. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - As video cameras begin to sweep post-Ferguson policing - and policymakers grapple with whether to bar the public from watching the images - one such recording sits at the heart of a new lawsuit. ...read more

PHILADELPHIA - Two city police officers were arrested Thursday and accused of knocking a man off a scooter and beating him so severely that another officer thought he had been shot. ...read more

Albuquerque, New Mexico (CNN) - Two Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers will face first-degree murder charges in last year's shooting of a homeless man in the hills above the city, a prosecutor announced Monday. ...read more

CLAYTON - A judge here sentenced former Charlack Police Chief Anthony Umbertino on Friday to five years on probation for stealing from the city. ...read more

A Victoria police officer is under investigation after using a stun gun on a 76-year-old man after pulling him over Thursday for an expired inspection sticker. ...read more

David Hooks was shot in the back and head as he was lying face down on the floor during a drug raid by Laurens County deputies. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A former Hillsdale police lieutenant was sentenced Thursday to 46 months in federal prison for robbing a drug courier, prosecutors said. ...read more

Yeah, so you've read the headline. No criminal activity. No charges brought. And a cheap shot fired across the bow of the Fourth Amendment, not to mention Vermont's own Constitution. ...read more

A New Mexico sheriff with a controversial past was convicted Friday on federal firearms charges, assault, and violation of a citizen’s civil rights in a road rage incident in March. ...read more

LOS ANGELES - A woman punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the side of a freeway in an incident caught on video will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and the officer has agreed to resign. ...read more

(CNN) -- One moment, a man reaches into his vehicle after a South Carolina trooper asked for his driver's license. ...read more

A veteran St. Louis County police officer was arrested Friday morning and charged with assault for allegedly using his baton to hit a man in the hand after an argument in April while he was working security for MetroLink. ...read more

(CNN) -- New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton ordered an extensive review of the NYPD's training procedures after the death of Eric Garner, the man who was held in a choke hold and died while police attempted to arrest him, Bratton announced at a press conference Tuesday. ...read more

New York (CNN) -- They are people children are supposed to trust: A New York Police Department officer, a Fire Department of New York paramedic, a rabbi and a scoutmaster were among more than 70 people arrested in a major child porn bust, authorities said Wednesday. ...read more

CLAYTON - The former Country Club Hills police officer accused of telling a woman motorist she could either have sex with him or be arrested for drunken driving has been convicted of corruption. ...read more

(CNN) -- A sheriff's deputy mistakenly thought he saw a teen carrying an assault rifle on a California street this week and shot him dead, authorities said. ...read more

Surveillance video shows a mentally ill man shot by a Dallas cop never “lunged” at police before an officer opened fire. ...read more

(CNN) -- More than 60 officers will be disciplined over a police chase last year that left two people dead in a hail of 137 bullets, Cleveland police said Tuesday. ...read more

(CNN) -- A Los Angeles police officer has been charged with assaulting a woman under arrest, Alesia Thomas, who lost consciousness in a patrol car and was declared dead soon thereafter, prosecutors announced Thursday. ...read more

A Chicago woman has filed a lawsuit against the Skokie Police Department claiming an officer used excessive force after she was arrested for DUI. ...read more

The attorney for a woman who alleged she was forcibly stripped by LaSalle County deputies after a DUI arrest last spring said other women have come forward claiming similar conduct, and he has asked a federal judge to bar destruction of potential video evidence. ...read more

Another day in Florida. ...read more

HAWTHORNE (CBSLA.com) - A video posted online apparently shows Hawthorne police officers fatally shooting the dog of a man filming a nearby barricade situation, an attorney said Monday. ...read more

LAKELAND | State Attorney Jerry Hill sent a letter to the Lakeland Police Department this week criticizing the actions of an officer who, in an unjustified hunt for drugs, instructed a woman to shake out her bra and searched her car as she pleaded with him to stop. ...read more

JASPER (CBSDFW.COM) - The Southeast Texas town of Jasper has a history of racial unrest. Now an attorney says the city, its police department and two officers will be sued over the beating of an African American woman by two police officers - and it was caught on surveillance video. ...read more

(CNN) -- A former "top cop," who had the honor of sitting next to first lady Michelle Obama during a televised presidential speech four years ago, is facing rape allegations. ...read more

New York (CNN) -- A veteran New York police officer accused of equipping a robbery crew with state-of-the art police equipment and helping them loot drug dealers out of $1 million pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday. ...read more

(CNN) -- A California police department is doing some soul searching after arresting one of its own on allegations of sexually assaulting half a dozen women. ...read more

(CNN) -- A former police officer convicted of multiple murders in the 1980s was executed Tuesday night in Florida. ...read more

Angela Jones, a Los Angeles woman, suffered cardiac arrest after being shocked with a Taser gun by police during a traffic stop in June. The incident, which was caught on video by a California Highway Patrol dashboard camera, has once again raised questions about the safety of the weapon. ...read more

CARL JUNCTION, Mo. • A former Carl Junction police officer is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. ...read more

A Los Angeles police officer shocked a handcuffed woman with a Taser stun gun while joking with other officers at the scene, according to interviews and law enforcement records, adding to a series of controversial use-of-force incidents at the LAPD. ...read more

Pinellas Park, Florida -- Daniel Jensen wasn't running from the law, he was trying to protect his home from burning up. Yet, Pinellas Park Police tasered him in the process. Jensen and his attorney say it's an excessive use of force. ...read more

New York (CNN) -- A New York police officer is under investigation after a video emerged showing him beating a 21-year-old man at a community center in Brooklyn, police said Monday. ...read more

(CNN) -- A Duluth, Minnesota, police officer will face criminal charges for, as a video shows, beating up a man in a detox facility last month, the city's police department said Thursday. ...read more

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the video showing one of his commanding officers hitting a woman on Sunday is another embarrassing moment for the department. He said at least six officers have damaged the department's reputation in the last two months. ...read more

(CNN) -- Houston police shot to death a double amputee in a wheelchair who they said was trying to stab an officer with a pen. ...read more

KEENE, TX -- Police say a North Texas officer followed policy by yanking a 77-year-old woman from her SUV when she refused to provide identification and said she first needed a bathroom. ...read more

A Melbourne police officer suspected of arranging sexual encounters in his patrol car with at least three prostitutes during a year-long period has been fired. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - The Police Department suspended a St. Louis patrolman and is seeking a felony charge against him for allegedly beating a trespassing suspect who was handcuffed and sitting in a wheelchair at the Lumière Place Casino downtown. ...read more

CNN - Authorities in the Los Angeles suburb of Anaheim, California, have asked for a federal investigation into a pair of weekend police shootings that have sparked days of protests, the city's mayor said Wednesday. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A resident of the Clifton Heights neighborhood awoke about 3:30 a.m. Sunday to find a stranger in the house, emptying a purse. ...read more

CLAYTON - A St. Louis County police officer was charged Wednesday with three counts of second-degree statutory sodomy after he was accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenage girl more than 10 years ago. ...read more

CHICAGO - After years of complaints, a Cook County sheriff's deputy has been charged with federal theft charges for stealing from a home during an eviction. ...read more

(CNN) -- A graphic video played at a hearing Monday to determine whether two California police officers should stand trial in the beating death of a homeless man showed them kicking and punching the mentally ill man as he lay on the ground -- screaming in pain and begging for help. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - The Board of Police Commissioners has agreed to pay up to $275,000 to Jeffrey Bladdick for a wound suffered when he shot by an intoxicated, off-duty St. Louis officer outside a bar in Pontoon Beach in 2008. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Two city police officers are charged with assaulting handcuffed teenage prisoners in separate incidents, officials announced Wednesday. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Douglas Hervey Jr. won a reversal of a felony conviction last year after presenting a police radio recording that apparently contradicted testimony of an officer who claimed to see him run from a stolen car. ...read more

(CNN) -- The FBI has arrested three East Haven, Connecticut, police patrol officers and one sergeant for their alleged role in the mistreatment of Latinos -- the first arrests to stem from a federal investigation into racial profiling in that town. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Several years ago, St. Louis police stopped regularly checking packages for drugs at delivery services like UPS and FedEx. ...read more

EAST ST. LOUIS - The embattled police chief here - who survived years of controversies - was brought down by stolen video game players he gave to relatives. ...read more

MELBOURNE, Fla. - WFTV obtained dash camera video of a violent police beating in Melbourne. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A former St. Louis sheriff's deputy admitted Wednesday that he bought drugs while in uniform and chauffeured a drug dealer around town. ...read more

The family of a North Chicago man who died a week after his arrest sued North Chicago police officers Tuesday in federal court, alleging excessive force and brutality. ...read more

NORMANDY - A nearly five-year veteran of the police department has been charged with a felony after police say he used his police fuel credit card to buy $600 in gas for his family's personal vehicles. ...read more

Seattle Police Detective John Fox apparently started drinking early on Thursday. ...read more

(Reuters) - Eight New York City policemen were charged on Tuesday with helping run a gun-smuggling ring in a city whose mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is leading a national campaign against illegal guns. ...read more

(CNN) -- Five law enforcement officers were among 70 people in Arkansas charged in a federal drug-trafficking crackdown that also involved public corruption charges, authorities said Tuesday. ...read more

COLUMBIA, Mo. - A mid-Missouri police officer has been fired for what his chief says was excessive force against a man in a holding cell. ...read more

BELLEVILLE - A day after six Metro East police officers and a former police dispatcher were charged with official misconduct, St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly announced "Operation Enemy Within," a sprawling law enforcement initiative to prosecute bad cops. ...read more

An Independence woman sexually assaulted at age 15 by a Jackson County sheriff’s deputy filed a federal lawsuit Thursday related to that incident. ...read more

SANTA FE, N.M. -- A spokesman for the New Mexico State Police said the photos of a uniformed officer having sex on the hood of a car in public are an embarrassment to the department. ...read more

FERGUSON - A former rookie Berkeley police officer has pleaded guilty of statutory rape and sodomy involving a 15-year-old girl last summer in Ferguson. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A former Bridgeton police officer who took a $5,000 bribe to help someone hide drug cash was sentenced in federal court here to two years in prison Thursday. ...read more

CLAYTON - A former St. Louis County police officer faces the loss of his driver's license for refusing to take a breath test after being stopped on suspicion of drunk driving. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A onetime suburban police officer with a previous conviction for kidnapping and rape was found guilty by a jury in St. Louis on Thursday of second-degree murder. ...read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former northwest Missouri sheriff faces eight federal misdemeanor counts of depriving women of their civil rights for allegedly forcing them to expose themselves. ...read more

WHEATON, Ill. - A former Illinois State Police trooper will spend 60 days in the DuPage County Jail after pleading guilty to official misconduct and possession of child pornography. ...read more

(CNN) -- An eyewitness to a fatal police shooting in Miami Beach last week claims police officers attempted to confiscate the video he filmed of the incident, and even crushed his phone underfoot in an attempt to destroy the recording. ...read more

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - The Maryland Transit Administration says more training may be called for after three MTA officers detained a man for taking pictures at a light rail station. ...read more

SAN ANTONIO - New information is coming to light about a tragic shooting last November. A teenage boy died after a North Side Independent School District police officer chased and then shot him. ...read more

Authorities in Arizona have arrested three employees of a sheriff's office known for its tough stand on illegal immigration, accusing them of aiding human traffickers and drug smugglers. ...read more

SPRINGFIELD, GA -- The Effingham County Sheriff's Department is not specifically commenting on some controversial video from a dashcam but the man who some witnesses say was "sucker punched" is. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - An officer on a north St. Louis County drug task force has admitted to accepting $5,000 in cash bribes and tipping off a suspect in a federal money laundering investigation. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A city police officer has admitted using his cellphone to take the crime scene photograph that was leaked from a deadly shootout two weeks ago, St. Louis police department officials said Monday. ...read more

ST. CHARLES COUNTY - A former New Melle police sergeant was found guilty Wednesday of harassing an elementary school teacher but not guilty of violating a protection order she filed against him. ...read more

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A police officer in Los Angeles who claimed he was shot while patrolling near a high school has now been arrested for making up the story, authorities said. ...read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The parents of two teens killed by the reckless driving of an Illinois state trooper deserve $8 million in damages, the Illinois Court of Claims announced Wednesday. It is believed to be the largest award ever granted by the special court that hears civil lawsuits against the state. ...read more

HILLSBORO - The trial of the former St. George police chief on charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl began Wednesday in circuit court. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Justin Biancardi, a former volunteer police officer in Uplands Park, admitted Monday in federal court here that he helped a full-time officer shake down more than a dozen prostitutes for money in 2009. ...read more

JENNINGS - The top police official in Jennings said Monday that a police officer was not justified when he fired shots last week at a car with a baby inside during a car chase that sprawled over several cities and ended with Velda City's police chief punching the car's driver. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating an incident at a St. Louis gas station after a YouTube video appearing to show a police officer beating a man with his baton was posted online. ...read more

U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said today that the federal investigation of the St. Louis towing scandal is ending with this morning's sentencing of its fourth and final figure to go to prison. ...read more

UPLANDS PARK - Lamont Aikens had a uniform, a badge and a patrol car last year when he chased a speeding car into St. Louis, where it crashed and killed a mother of four. ...read more

CLAYTON - A former Sunset Hills police officer is expected to plead guilty Thursday to charges that she was driving drunk and killed four people in 2009. ...read more

PHOENIX -- More information on the past behavior of a Phoenix police officer charged with second-degree murder reveals a video of him playing what he called a "prank" on a homeless woman. ...read more

DENVER - The City of Denver is asking the FBI to investigate a police beating in lower downtown Denver from 2009. Michael DeHerrera was talking on his cell phone as his friend was being arrested near the corner of 15th and Lawrence when the incident happened. ...read more

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A federal jury has awarded $1.85 million to the daughters of a man shot and killed by an off-duty Milwaukee police officer five years ago. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - An Uplands Park police officer faces up to 25 years in federal prison after admitting Wednesday that he robbed and sexually assaulted four female paid escorts he had lured to meet with him. ...read more

Kemp was among a group of river-lovers who'd just returned to the home of Kemp's common-law wife after a trip in which they'd been drinking alcohol, said 30-year-old Ian Olson of Grand Junction. ...read more

NEWARK - The man shot and killed in Branch Brook Park on Friday by an Essex County sheriff's detective has been identified as a former Montclair man visiting New Jersey from Atlanta, where he works as a CEO of a credit union. ...read more

Marvin Booker just wanted to get his shoes. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - The low rate at which the Police Department sustains physical-abuse complaints against officers — the subject of scathing comments by a federal judge in CRIME STATS ...read more

For decades, black men across Chicago described torture at the hands of former police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers, and for decades no one listened. Suspects landed in jail and even on death row for crimes they say they didn't commit after Burge and his men coerced confessions using terrifying methods including suffocation, a form of waterboarding and electric shocks. ...read more

(CNN) -- An attorney representing the family of a 7-year-old girl shot to death Sunday in a police raid is accusing the Detroit Police Department of misrepresenting the incident. ...read more

(CNN) -- The FBI in Seattle, Washington, is looking into allegations of civil rights violations in the case of a police officer caught on video kicking a Latino detainee, an agent said Wednesday. ...read more

(CNN) -- A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer who told authorities he was shot while on patrol last month has admitted he shot himself intentionally, the city's police commissioner said Tuesday. ...read more

BELLEVILLE - lllinois trooper Matt Mitchell, who pleaded guilty of reckless homicide last week for an on-duty crash that killed two teens, insisted in a civil hearing this morning that he was not at fault for their deaths. ...read more

CLAYTON - A Sunset Hills police officer and the bar that served her alcohol have agreed to pay a total of $2.255 million — the limit of their insurance policies — to compensate the families of four CRIME STATS ...read more

(CNN) -- A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer has been suspended, and prosecutors are investigating an incident -- caught on video -- in which officers wielding nightsticks beat a University of Maryland student, officials said Tuesday. ...read more

OVERLAND -- An Overland police officer charged in a man's death had quarreled with the man and pushed him down a flight of stairs at an Overland duplex, investigators said Tuesday. ...read more

A former Milwaukee County sheriff's sergeant was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for repeatedly slugging a handcuffed suspect in the face, an outburst his attorney blamed on post-traumatic stress disorder. ...read more

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- A former New Orleans police lieutenant pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction of justice in connection with the police shootings of civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina and court documents unsealed with the plea suggest that other officers will be indicted in the case. ...read more

MILFORD -- A police videotape released Tuesday shows the car carrying two Orange teens in a June fatal crash turned directly into the path of Police Officer Jason Anderson’s vehicle, which was travelling at 94 miles per hour at the point of collision. ...read more

ST. CHARLES COUNTY -- Four St. Charles County area police officers who served on a regional drug task force are facing misdemeanor charges including assault. ...read more

OZARK, Ark. -- Ozark police said they were called to a home where a mother asked for help with her unruly child, but the 10-year-old's father said he's outraged at the force police used against his daughter. ...read more

The FBI will be reviewing dash cam video of a Minneapolis police officer using a Taser on a man as a possible civil rights violation, according to a statement released by the Minneapolis police chief Tuesday evening. ...read more

ADAMS, Mass. -- Veteran Adams Police Officer Alan C. Vigiard, 45, was arrested last week and charged with possession of child pornography. He has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation, authorities said Monday. ...read more

A report issued Wednesday by Boise Community Ombudsman Pierce Murphy found that a Boise police officer who used a Taser on a suspect's buttocks violated the police department's use-of-force policy. ...read more

A Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - Police said Anthony K. Barsh tried to assault a city officer by speeding at him with a car. ...read more

Some Florida cops may be in a Wii bit of trouble. ...read more

If animals could talk, a few cows in Burlington County might ask state legislators to hurry up and outlaw bestiality. ...read more

CHICAGO (AP) -- Four former members of an elite Chicago police unit have admitted taking part in a brazen operation in which they barged into homes and stole money -- in one case after withholding insulin from a diabetic man until he told him were to find the cash. ...read more

The case of Sunset Hills police Officer Christine L. Miller is back in St. Louis County court today for a pretrial conference. ...read more

CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati's police chief said Monday that when an officer shocked the daughter of a city councilman with a Taser gun early Sunday, it was an excessive use of force. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - The city of Moberly, Mo., has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the family of Stanley Harlan, 23, who died during a 2008 drunken driving arrest. ...read more

ST. LOUIS - A judge was weighing Thursday whether the Police Department can be sued for disposing of seized property without giving the owner a chance to reclaim it. ...read more

BOLEY, OK -- Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers get into a fight with a paramedic and it is all caught on videotape. ...read more

The Chicago Police officer charged with striking and killing a 13-year-old South Side boy in a hit-and-run crash Friday told arresting officers that he just wanted to “go back.” ...read more

Five Birmingham police officers have been fired for a January 2008 beating of an already-unconscious suspect with fists, feet and a billy club, a battering caught on videotape until a police officer turned off the patrol car camera, city and police officials said today. ...read more

TENAHA, Texas (CNN) -- Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery. ...read more

EL PASO, Texas -- A police sergeant who was involved in a confrontation with an ABC-7 news crew has been demoted. The demotion of Raul Ramirez is for use of force in a matter that has nothing to do with the incident on I-10 two weeks ago in which reporter Darren Hunt and photographer Ric Dupont were arrested. ...read more

THE NARCOTICS officers knew they were being watched on video surveillance moments after they entered the bodega. ...read more

State Police said Monday they have started an investigation into the death of a 15-year-old Tasered by Bay City police officers who were trying to break up a fight between him and another male at an apartment. ...read more

PEORIA -- Two Peoria police officers arrested after a brutality claim will appear in court Wednesday, when Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons said he plans to read a copy of the complaint and factual basis for their arrest. ...read more

A man admitted Friday in federal court that when he was a city police officer he helped plant evidence, stole cash and filed false criminal charges. ...read more

A New Jersey woman has filed a lawsuit claiming police officers beat her, after she was stopped for illegally riding her bike on the sidewalk. The encounter was caught on a police dashcam video. ...read more

The elderly Wal-Mart greeter shoved to the ground by a Chattanooga Police officer has filed suit. ...read more

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Chicago, Illinois, police officer who was videotaped beating a man restrained in a wheelchair at a hospital emergency room pleaded guilty Thursday to using "excessive or unreasonable force" against the victim, Justice Department officials announced. ...read more

Federal prosecutors say that a former St. Louis police officer used a law enforcement database to find out whether secret arrest warrants had been issued against her friends. ...read more

A BART police officer struggling to handcuff a 22-year-old man stood up over the facedown Hayward resident and fired a single shot into his back while a handful of officers watched, a video taken by a train passenger apparently shows. ...read more

St. Louis - A federal jury awarded $91,000 on Thursday to a man who said St. Louis police officers beat him while he tried to sell T-shirts near Busch Stadium during a Cardinals game in 2005. ...read more

St. Louis — For years, St. Louis police wrongly kept and earned interest on millions of dollars seized in the arrests of suspects, the department admitted Wednesday. ...read more

A former Alton police officer was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for stealing evidence, including money taken in bank robberies. ...read more

OAKLAND - Alameda County prosecutors are not filing charges against an Oakland Tribune photographer who was detained and had her video footage taken by Oakland police. ...read more

ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said this morning it has fired one of the St. Louis city police officers involved in Sunday's shootings outside a Pontoon Beach tavern. ...read more

An Anaheim police officer chasing burglary suspects shot and killed an innocent 20-year-old man who heard a commotion and emerged from his house early Tuesday holding what authorities said was either a broomstick or a shower rod. ...read more

The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday. ...read more

Police in Moberly, Mo., on Thursday defended the use of a Taser on a suspected drunken driver after the man later died at local hospital. ...read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Five years after a Louisville woman claimed a former Strathmoor Village police officer attacked her and charged her with crimes she didn't commit, a jury has sided with her and awarded her more than $1 million. ...read more

A Denver police officer appears to have lied under oath when he denied slamming a man's face into the ground during an arrest, according to court transcripts reviewed by the Rocky Mountain News. ...read more

Three police officers could face charges after disturbing video of the beating of a man in handcuffs sent shockwaves through the community. ...read more

A Chicago Police officer has been suspended and ordered into counseling after she was found guilty of demanding free Starbucks coffee from six different stores on the North Side from 2001 to 2004, sometimes flashing her badge, displaying her gun and screaming at employees. ...read more

Federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation into a police narcotics raid on the home of a Maryland mayor in which police burst in without knocking and shot the mayor's two dogs to death. ...read more

Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday. ...read more

A rookie NYPD cop was stripped of his badge and gun Monday after a stunning video caught him slamming a bicyclist to the ground in an apparent unprovoked attack. ...read more

First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards. ...read more

OZARK, Mo. -- A family wants answers about what happened to their son that left him hospitalized. Early Saturday morning, police found Mace Hutchinson, 16, underneath the Highway F overpass over U.S. 65. ...read more

WINNFIELD, Louisiana (CNN) -- A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. ...read more

Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton said Tuesday he has placed three officers on home assignment as the department moved swiftly to investigate allegations that officers lied under oath during a recently dismissed drug possession trial. ...read more

Reports of police officers using a Taser stun gun in an attempt to subdue a well-known local bicyclist Tuesday night in Southeast Portland has sparked protest on the Internet. ...read more

An Eyewitness News 4 photographer was cuffed and cited Thursday morning for disobeying a police officer. It was a situation where the photographer was trying to do his job. And now the Albuquerque Police Department is reviewing the tape to see if the officer crossed the line. ...read more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The videotaped beatings of three restrained men by several members of the Philadelphia police force were inexcusable but had nothing to do with race, the city's mayor and police commissioner said Thursday. ...read more

It's 1:45 p.m. on a Wednesday in February and a Toyota Camry is driving west on the 91 Express Lanes, for free, for the 470th time. ...read more

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis County police officer accused of pointing his gun at a parking lot attendant during the St. Patrick's Day parade was charged Wednesday with third-degree assault. ...read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. --A South Carolina state trooper is seen kicking a suspect in the head multiple times after a high speed interstate chase in the latest in a string of alarming Highway Patrol videos. ...read more

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Video showing a woman being pushed down some stairs by a police officer that led to a battery charge against the woman has prompted calls for charges against the officer. ...read more

Federal authorities are investigating alleged misconduct and civil rights violations by the Highway Patrol shown in videos in which state troopers used racial slurs, threatened to kill a suspect and — most recently — struck suspects fleeing on foot with their patrol cars. ...read more

A man died Tuesday night after Chicago police shocked him with a Taser stun gun because he was combative during an arrest on the West Side, authorities said Wednesday morning. ...read more

LIMA, Ohio - A veteran Lima police officer was indicted yesterday on misdemeanor charges for shooting a woman to death and wounding her young son during a drug raid. ...read more

A Shreveport police officer has been fired after an incident in which a female prisoner taken into custody on suspicion of DWI wound up lying on a floor at the police station in a pool of blood. ...read more

St. Louis -- Authorities are investigating Bel-Ridge police Chief Gordon Brock on an allegation that he inappropriately deleted an arrest record from an areawide law enforcement computer database. ...read more

Tampa, Florida - The Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground. ...read more

It would be pretty tame as an episode of "Girls Gone Wild," but surveillance video of what happened at Elkhart, Indiana Police headquarters last Thanksgiving was hot enough for two workers to lose their jobs. ...read more

CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. ...read more

CEDAR RAPIDS - A Cedar Rapids police officer will never wear a law enforcement uniform anywhere again, according to an agreement between the officer and the government. ...read more

BELLEVILLE -- An Illinois state trooper's cruiser was traveling 126 mph moments before it veered out of control, crossed an interstate median and killed two teenage sisters, a coroner's jury was told Wednesday. ...read more

New Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis will take a "hard, close look" at taking further action against an officer suspended after a surveillance camera captured him beating a man handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair, a police spokeswoman says. ...read more

LIMA, Ohio - The FBI has joined state investigators in a probe of the fatal shooting of a Lima woman and a veteran police sergeant was identified as the shooter yesterday. ...read more

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. -- A woman who said her apartment and belongings were ruined during a SWAT incident may soon get help from the city. ...read more

NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenage suspect who secretly recorded his interrogation on an MP3 player has landed a veteran detective in the middle of perjury charges, authorities said Thursday. ...read more

(Wichita, KS) -- Donnell Williams had just gotten out of the bath tub, wearing only a towel around his waist, when he turned the corner to see guns pointing right at him. ...read more

DES PLAINES, Ill. -- A suburban Chicago police officer has been fired for harassing anti-abortion protesters. ...read more

A dashboard camera video posted on YouTube less than 24 hours ago showing a Utah Highway Patrol officer firing a Taser at a driver he stopped for speeding has prompted authorities there to expedite an internal investigation into the incident. ...read more

East St. Louis — A federal jury in East St. Louis ordered three Sauget police officers Monday to pay $107,000 to two men from Michigan who claimed they were beaten and shocked with stun guns during an arrest three years ago. ...read more

(CNN) -- A 20-year-old man died Sunday after being shot with a Taser device during a scuffle with a sheriff's deputy in Maryland, a spokeswoman for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said. ...read more

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived. ...read more

BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (AP) -- State police searched the home of a police sergeant from a Chicago suburb whose wife disappeared last month and whose former wife was found dead in her bathtub three years ago. ...read more

Both human and women's rights advocates descended on the Independence City Council meeting Monday night in hopes of getting a chance to voice their concerns to the council over the treatment of Yvette Hayes. ...read more

(CNN) -- An Ohio police officer has been put on paid administrative leave after his own police cruiser's dash camera captured him using a stun gun to subdue a handcuffed woman, an attorney for the city of Warren, Ohio, told CNN on Thursday. ...read more

(CNN) -- Two University of Florida police officers were on leave with pay Wednesday as university officials tried to sort out what caused them to use an electronic stun gun to subdue a student, the school's president said. ...read more

HOUSE SPRINGS — As many as five Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies have been suspended with pay because of a bar room brawl early Thursday morning, said Sheriff Oliver "Glenn" Boyer. ...read more

Florissant — An Arnold police officer was suspended and then resigned Thursday after threatening a man at a White Castle while off duty earlier in the morning. ...read more

ST. GEORGE — A police officer who was recorded berating a motorist earlier this month has lost his job. ...read more

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a local corrections deputy bragged about using a Taser gun on people in an Internet chat room. ...read more

NOBLE, Oklahoma (AP) -- A police officer shooting at a snake apparently killed a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond, officials said. ...read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia family said they are outraged over the arrest of one of their family members. ...read more

PHILADELPHIA - An officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell will be fired. ...read more

A phone call from Kennewick police administrators in July 2003 to see how Ken Rogers was doing in the aftermath of a botched police chase could have saved the city more than $1 million in a federal verdict. ...read more

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street. ...read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Hillsborough County deputy has been suspended after he arrested a woman who was speeding to the emergency room to check on her father. ...read more

Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington held his second news conference in as many days Tuesday to defend the training of his officers following the guilty pleas by two narcotics detectives in the shooting death of an elderly woman. ...read more

St. Louis — A former city police officer told a jury Thursday that he shot a 16-year-old to death in fear of his life but that the youth never pointed a weapon directly at him. ...read more

Washington D.C., April 11, 2007 -- The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the oldest Sikh American civil rights and advocacy organization in the country, today called upon the Joliet Police Department to investigate the actions of one of its officers when patrolling a local neighborhood. ...read more

On a regular Saturday evening, three roommates stood around their apartment going about their normal routine when suddenly eight to 10 police officers, guns drawn, came into the apartment and served the unsuspecting men a search warrant. ...read more

The 25-year-old man shot to death last week by a Wilmington officer never threatened police, according to five witnesses working nearby and a sixth witness standing next to the victim when the confrontation began. ...read more

CHICAGO (CBS) ? A woman was injured during a frightening attack and it was all caught on tape. The attacker was an off-duty Chicago police officer who has now been charged. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports. ...read more

CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) -- A police officer in this small southeast Missouri town faces four misdemeanor counts of patronizing prostitution for allegedly offering women cigarettes in return for watching them participate in sex acts. ...read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A woman whose premature baby died the day after she was arrested has sued the Kansas City Police Department and two officers who repeatedly ignored her pleas for medical help while they were arresting her. ...read more

Edmon Burns filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming Maplewood and St. Louis police violated his civil rights by beating and kicking him at the end of a vehicle chase broadcast live by a TV news helicopter last year. ...read more

(Brooklyn-WABC, August 16, 2006) - Three NYPD officers are expected to turn themselves in today. They're accused of breaking into a massage parlor in Brooklyn. ...read more

The St. Louis Police Board voted 3-1 Monday night to fire a police detective accused of using a stun gun against a handcuffed suspect in an attempt to learn his name. ...read more

With a horrified suspect watching, Huntington Beach police planted evidence -- a loaded revolver -- in the man’s car during a DUI accident investigation in January, the Weekly has learned. ...read more

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday he was "deeply disturbed" by the barrage of gunfire unleashed by officers in a weekend shooting that killed a groom on his wedding day. ...read more

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The niece of a 92-year-old woman shot to death by police said her aunt likely had reason to shoot three narcotics investigators as they stormed her house. ...read more

The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said. ...read more

A third woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Bella Villa Police Chief Edward Locke Jr. of sexual misconduct. The 71-year-old claims he groped her breast. ...read more

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The FBI opened an investigation Thursday into video footage of a police officer repeatedly striking a suspect in the face during a struggle on a Hollywood street. ...read more

JERSEYVILLE -- A 17-year-old youth who was carrying a Bible and a cordless house phone when he was shot twice by police with a stun gun might have died from "a case of excited delirium," a medical examiner said today. ...read more

WINTER HAVEN, Florida (AP) -- Police Chief Paul Goward was tired of looking around his department and seeing blubber hanging over the belts of some of his officers. So he sent out a memo exhorting the "jelly bellies" to shape up. ...read more

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Virginia sheriff covered up a scheme in which a dozen of his deputies sold seized guns and drugs to the public, a federal indictment alleges. ...read more

Anthony Medoro had troubles with his boss. His supervisor was "dictatorial and micromanaging" and undermined his self-confidence, Medoro said. The stress was so oppressive he couldn't bear going to work. ...read more

BLOOMINGTON, Illinois (AP) -- A police sergeant accused of raping four women since 2002 was charged in a grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday with 35 counts, including multiple attacks on three of the victims. ...read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free-trade summit in 2003 in Miami. ...read more

ST. ANN -- An off-duty Berkeley police officer, shopping at Northwest Plaza, shot and killed a man after a confrontation in a clothing store shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. ...read more

Four former St. Louis County deputy sheriffs have been indicted on charges that they took bribes from moving companies in return for favorable treatment in enforcing court-ordered evictions. ...read more

A former Moline Acres police officer has been indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman during a traffic stop, then lying about it to FBI agents, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced this morning. ...read more

CHICAGO (AP) -- A couple have filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois State Police trooper convicted of forcing them to strip during a traffic stop last June. ...read more

Police say a man who was fatally shot by a King County sheriff's deputy had knocked the deputy to the ground and bit and kicked him following a traffic stop early this morning. The man managed to rip the cord from the officer's portable radio and returned to his car. The man was in his car when he was shot by the deputy. The man died at the scene. The King County Medical Examiner's Office did not immediately release the name of the 33-year-old man. ...read more

(CNN) -- A sheriff's deputy pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the shooting of an unarmed Iraq war veteran in San Bernardino, California -- an incident captured in grainy, amateur video earlier this year. ...read more

DENVER - A former head of the Denver Police Department's intelligence bureau misled Chief Gerry Whitman and top city administrators into believing officers were complying with federal guidelines when spying on protesters, according to documents released Friday. ...read more

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- They cased homes containing drugs, money and weapons like suspects in any other robbery ring, prosecutors say. ...read more

TROY, Mo. - A Lincoln County sheriff's deputy acted recklessly when he fired shots through a pickup's rear window and killed two men last fall, authorities said Thursday after filing felony charges against the officer. ...read more

The FBI today entered the case of a man who was beaten by four police officers Monday after leading police on a high-speed chase from Maplewood into north St. Louis. ...read more

An off-duty St. Louis police detective was drunk when he drove the wrong way on Interstate 270 near Troy, Ill., crashing head-on into a pickup truck and killing him, according to testimony today at the Madison County coroner's inquest. ...read more

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 - In a black eye for a city that prides itself for tolerance, at least 18 police officers were suspended on Thursday for appearing in homemade videos for a Christmas party that parody the Police Department in skits described by officials as racist, sexist and homophobic. ...read more

TEMPLE TERRACE - A veteran Temple Terrace police officer charged last month with soliciting a lingerie modeling shop employee for sex has resigned - just before the release of an internal affairs investigation that uncovered further misconduct. ...read more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Three police officers in New Orleans were charged with battery Sunday after an incident in which two repeatedly struck a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication as another officer confronted a TV producer. ...read more

TAMPA - The case of Debra Lafave has taken lots of odd twists since she was charged with lewd and lascivious battery last summer. On Thursday, it took another: A Temple Terrace police officer with ties to her case was accused of sexual misconduct. ...read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- Police officers committed an error of judgment when they handcuffed an unruly kindergartner at school in March but did not violate policy, the department's chief said Thursday. ...read more

(CNN) -- More than a dozen Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies will be disciplined for their roles in a controversial shooting incident in which more than 120 rounds were fired at a vehicle driven by an unarmed suspect, Sheriff Lee Baca announced Thursday. ...read more

LISBON, Conn. -- A Connecticut state trooper has been suspended for 15 days without pay after he was heard on a 911 tape saying "too bad" to a caller seeking help for a man injured in a motorcycle accident. ...read more

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two police detectives led double lives as Mafia hitmen, kidnapping and killing rival gangsters and giving confidential information to the mob for more than a decade, federal prosecutors charged Thursday. ...read more

Five police officers and four dispatchers were suspended for sending computer messages after a nightclub caught fire, joking about the blaze and quoting a line from the song Disco Inferno -- "burn baby burn." ...read more

AURORA, Colo. -- Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and said that proper procedures were followed. ...read more

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- The Chicago Police Department will not distribute more Taser stun guns to its officers while it investigates the device's use on a man who died and a teen who was injured this week. ...read more

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A police officer who was videotaped beating an auto theft suspect with a heavy flashlight -- a case that evoked comparisons to the Rodney King beating -- will not face criminal charges, prosecutors announced. ...read more

He'll be punished for arrest threat over anti-Bush label

By Brian D. Crecente, Rocky Mountain News
January 26, 2005

Denver police Sgt. Michael Karasek will be disciplined for threatening to arrest a woman for displaying on her truck a profane bumper sticker about President Bush, Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Tuesday. ...read more

An off-duty University City police officer was drunk when he made a U-turn into oncoming traffic and crashed into a Bridgeton officer's car, killing them both, authorities announced Thursday. ...read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A police officer used his Taser gun on a 68-year-old grandmother in her home Tuesday night, KMBC's Donna Pitman reported. ...read more

Gabriel B. Tait, a staff photographer for the Post-Dispatch, was arrested Saturday by Berkeley police while taking pictures at the scene of an auto accident. Police also confiscated his camera equipment and company-provided car. ...read more

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Miami-Dade County Police are reviewing their policy on using Tasers after officers stunned two children with the weapons in the past few weeks. ...read more

(CNN) -- The Boston Police Department "accepts full responsibility" for the death of a 21-year-old college student killed by a police projectile fired to disperse crowds celebrating the Boston Red Sox victory over the New York Yankees. ...read more

JACKSONVILLE (AP) Police in riot gear fired paintballs filled with cayenne pepper Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance. ...read more

WHEATON, Maryland (AP) -- A pregnant woman said she was handcuffed by transit police and forced to lie on her stomach during an arrest that began with her talking too loudly on her cell phone. ...read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Deputies in hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers Beach used a Taser gun on a man allegedly trying to get by a police barrier to get home, and it was caught on tape. ...read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A college student who took a cell phone call from her mother in a movie theater was pepper sprayed by an officer and charged with disorderly conduct, along with her boyfriend. ...read more

PORTLAND, Ore. - The city of Portland has agreed to pay $145,000 to an elderly blind woman after police pepper-sprayed and shocked her with a stun gun. ...read more