NEW YORK — A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup. Near Seattle, four officers starting their day at a coffee shop are ambushed by an ex-con with a handgun. Another four officers are shot to death in Oakland, Calif., after a traffic stop gone awry. Across the nation, 2009 was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A Washington County sheriff's official says his office is reviewing the case of a jailer who posed nude for a Playboy website, to see if she violated department policy. Jessie Lunderby, 21, said she had no regrets for her off-the-job activities, but the matter had added stress. "My phone has been going like crazy, my e-mail is clogged," ...

TORONTO -- A Toronto police officer nicknamed "Officer Bubbles" on YouTube over an incident during the G20 summit has launched a $1.2-million defamation suit against the website. Const. Adam Josephs received the nickname after an online video surfaced of him telling a protester she would be arrested if any of her bubbles touched police officers. Josephs is not suing over the ...

Dressed in black and carrying assault rifles, members of a local multi-jurisdiction police unit burst into a dark home in Ogden, Utah, one night in September shouting, "Police! Search warrant!" A video of the incident made by the Weber-Morgan counties Narcotics Strike Force and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency shows a man suddenly appearing in a hallway holding a shiny object ...

UPDATE: A suspect has died after a standoff with police at a house in St. Louis, police said. Earlier Tuesday, two federal marshals and a police officer were shot and wounded in a gunfight at the same property, and one marshal is in critical condition. St. Louis police confirmed in a statement that a "male suspect is deceased." The statement did ...

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police Officer Gahiji Tshamba was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death one year ago of Tyrone Brown, a Marine veteran and father of two. "The defendant overreacted and in fact exacerbated this whole tragic" set of event, said Baltimore Circuit Judge Edward R.K. Hargadon. More than 21 witnesses appeared over six days, offering varied accounts ...

CHICAGO - An off-duty Chicago Police officer fatally shot a man who tried to break into the officer’s Far South Side Roseland neighborhood home Tuesday morning. Just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, an intruder armed with a weapon entered the home of an off-duty officer in the 10000 block of South Princeton Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. “The ...

CLEVELAND - Amid tears and cheers, 42 police academy cadets joined the Cleveland force Friday and were immediately laid off as a one-month reprieve expired, underscoring shrinking municipal work forces as cities cope with declining revenues and less state and federal assistance. The city and police union struck a deal in May to allow the cadets to remain in class and ...

Decatur, Ala. -- Four German police officers had just begun their first day with the Decatur Police Department and immediately noticed some differences between here and their home country. "It's much hotter, and the food is different," said Silvia Berte of Hamburg, a vegan at mealtime. "Everything's about meat." Officer Jim Archuletta of Decatur police agreed, saying that on a previous ...

Note: The Following is an Opinion Column For several years one of my biggest heroes has been ‘Sheriff Joe,” the colorful Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County. If ever there was a face for Arizona’s fearless fight against illegal immigrants it is the Massachusetts-born lawman whose no-nonsense approach towards crime in Phoenix has enthralled millions just like me. Now comes word ...

MEXICO -A 20-year-old college student, hailed as "Mexico's bravest woman" in news media, is the new police chief of one of the country's most dangerous drug war towns on the U.S. border, where officers have quit and officials have been killed. Marisol Valles, who studies criminology, took charge of the police force in Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas, just ...

NEW YORK - A retired NYPD police officer and his wife scuffled with cops in a Manhattan stationhouse after their teenage son was stopped, frisked and handcuffed, cops said. Merault Almonor, 49, punched a female officer in the face during the March 20 fracas in the 30th Precinct stationhouse in Harlem, cops said. But Almonor's lawyer said the former cop, his ...

SAN LEANDRO, CA - The San Leandro Police Department has ruled that the handler of a police dog failed to follow proper procedures when the off-duty canine attacked and killed another dog in a Brentwood park. In a statement announced Friday, the department said its investigation found that the handler of the police dog, a German Shepherd named Arago, "did not ...

CHICAGO - More than 1,000 motorcycles roared down Lake Shore Drive this morning as part of an annual procession commemorating Chicago police officers killed in the line of duty. It was the largest turnout to date for the Area Four Ride to Remember, now its seventh year. The cavalcade of bikes included mostly american iron types equipped with sissy bars and ...

SUSSEX, UK - A police watchdog has concluded it was likely a schoolboy had already died when he was struck by a police car after he wandered onto a motorway. Scott Turner, 15, of Burgess Hill, was hit by a number of vehicles on the M23 in West Sussex in the early hours of Sunday. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) ...

SEATTLE - A 17-year-old girl who had a confrontation Monday with a Seattle police officer was charged Friday with third-degree assault. The girl, whom Seattlepi.com is not naming because she was charged as a juvenile, pushed the officer Ian Walsh, who retaliated by punching her in the videotaped incident, which drew some nationwide criticism. The Seattle Police Officers' Guild president backed ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It was a story of "girl bites dog" for a teenager who thought she was in a battle for her life with a police K-9. The dog attacked Natalie Bradley-Wilson outside the Kingdom Hall in the 8200 block of Five Points Road Sunday. "When it bit me over here again, I ended up biting his neck," she said. The ...

PALM SPRINGS, CA - Shirtless and squeezed into tight jeans, a hunky undercover Palm Springs police officer hovered in a shadowy parking lot and lured men cruising the Warm Sands neighborhood. The June 2009 gay sex sting netted 19 public indecent exposure arrests, and disbelief and outrage have festered in this desert haven ever since. This is Palm Springs, "the gayest ...

Read the original posting at CliffviewPilot.com NEW BRUNSWICK - Before anyone gets any more exercised over a YouTube video that claims to “prove” a New Brunswick police officer brutalized a Rutgers University student: Watch the video yourself, preferably with the sound off. Read the state Attorney General’s guidelines on the use of force. Then decide for yourself. On the YouTube video ...

PHOENIX — Two top county officials said Thursday night they have been subpoenaed to answer questions next week before a federal grand jury about a high-profile Arizona sheriff and his office. In statements read by a county spokesman, Maricopa County Manager David Smith and Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson said they met with a federal prosecutor to discuss the case and ...