NEW YORK CITY - NYPD officers logged a record low number of fatal police-involved shootings last year, a new report shows. Last year, cops shot and killed eight people, wounding 16 others. The numbers are a sharp decrease from 2009, when police killed 12 and wounded 20. The report also shows there were 93 police-shooting incidents, which include accidental discharges and ...

SAN RAMON -- San Ramon's police department is looking at reorganizing its beat structure to help deal with staffing shortages. A study by the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training found the three-and-half year-old department could use six more patrol officers to help with understaffed shifts. There are 28 officers and corporals assigned to patrol now, according to the ...

BALTIMORE - UPDATE: The police commissioner told reporters outside Maryland Shock Trauma Center that the officer was getting something out of his car when the man approached with a small caliber revolver. He said the incident did not appear to be a robbery and called it a "random, chance encounter," Jessica Anderson reports. Police are reporting that a homicide detective was ...

WEBER COUNTY, UT - A Utah civil rights attorney says a religion-laced post on the Weber County sheriff’s office Facebook page violates state and federal laws separating church and state. In a letter sent Wednesday, Salt Lake City-based attorney Brian Barnard asks Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson to remove the post from the social networking site. The letter to employees and ...