Palm Beach FL April 18 2021 In the wake of the sudden resignation of Palm Beach County School District Police Chief Frank Kitzerow, the county’s police union is asking the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to take over policing for the school district. Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association President John Kazanjian said the association […]
ST LOUIS MO April 18 2021 Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones announced new leadership for the city’s public safety division on Thursday, declaring gun violence a public health crisis. A local program aims to deter young people from crime with a unique approach. Founders of Building Futures, a North City non-profit, said their program takes an unconventional approached […]
Saskatoon Canada April 18 2021 A video showing a security guard attempting to handcuff a woman and wrestle her to the ground outside a Saskatoon grocery store Wednesday is drawing the ire of the store’s owner. A roughly nine-minute video shared on Facebook shows the man trying to arrest an Indigenous woman outside the FreshCo […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas April 18 2021 A handgun-wielding man who opened fire outside the San Antonio airport was fatally shot by police Thursday, hours after he’d shot at vehicles from a highway overpass in the northern part of the Texas city, officials said. The city’s airport was placed on lockdown after police got a call around […]
Salt Lake City Utah April 18 2021 Vicky Chávez and her two young daughters have lived at First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City for three years. In 2014, Ms. Chávez fled domestic abuse and violence in Honduras, seeking asylum in the United States. After her asylum application was denied, federal immigration officials ordered her […]
MARINA DEL REY, CA April 18 2021— A former “Bachelorette” contestant claims that a maskless security guard attacked him with anti-Semitic threats after he asked the guard to wear a mask at the parking lot of his Marina del Rey apartment complex, TMZ reports. ‘Bachelorette’ alum Michael Garofola claims he was on the receiving end […]
Indianapolis IN April 18 2021 Below are developments in the FedEx Indianapolis shooting from Friday, April 16. Read IndyStar’s continuing coverage on Saturday, April 17. Eight people were killed and several more were injured in a mass shooting at the FedEx Ground Plainfield Operations Center late Thursday night. Over the course of the day Friday, […]
Bend OR April 18 2021 A new independent review of the police force at Central Oregon Community College, where a student was raped and murdered by a campus officer in 2016, was prompted by complaints that a “cop-like” attitude persists on campus, according to COCC President Laurie Chesley. While the review revealed some positives, much work […]
Richmond VA April 17 2021 Leighton Security Services, a private security company accused of working without a license during construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, is facing similar allegations in Virginia. The complaint against Leighton is one of two recently filed against private companies providing security for the Mountain Valley pipeline, a planned 300-mile […]
Carson City NV April 17 2021 The Nevada Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that puts restraints on law enforcement officers, limiting the use of force to that needed to affect an arrest or control a demonstration or other situation. Sen. Dallas Harris, D-Las Vegas, described it as a set of common-sense changes. She said […]