Alberta, Canada May 18 2021 A group of volunteers will be patrolling Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park this spring and summer to aid visitors and monitor the health of the trails, as part of a program led by the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation (GRPF). According to Sarah Parker, executive director of the foundation, she and her […]
San Francisco, California May 17 2021— The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) on May 4 presented a plan to the Health Commission to reduce the number of sheriff’s deputies who guard public hospitals and clinics in San Francisco, and instead rely on additional psychiatric nurses and mental health professionals to handle crises. About […]
California May 17 2021 The private company that provides guards security guards to the Metropolitan Transit System in San Diego, including the armed guard who helped hold down a handcuffed Angel Zapata Hernandez in a fatal encounter in October 2019, is being sued in Sacramento federal court for a similar death. That death, where a […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. May 17 2021 APD’s SWAT team has arrested a man in connection to Wednesday’s triple homicide that led to three bodies being dropped off at Kaseman Hospital. Two of the victims have also been identified. Richard Kuykendall, 41, is being charged federally with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The complaint […]
Alexandria VA May 17 2021 The city of Alexandria will pull all police officers from public school hallways, ending a program that began nearly three decades ago following a narrow and contentious vote by the city council earlier this month. The council voted 4-to-3 on May 3 to reallocate nearly $800,000 used for the School Resource Officer […]
Lewisburg PA May 17 2021 A liberal arts college in Pennsylvania is investigating a “horrific incident” of alleged harassment of LGBTQ students. On Friday, Bucknell University President John Bravman and two school officials wrote a letter addressed to students and staff of the prestigious school acknowledging and condemning the incident. A group of nearly two […]
SAN MATEO, Calif. May 17 2021 The San Mateo Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred Friday in the parking lot of the San Mateo Adult School. Just before 9 p.m., San Mateo police officers responded to the adult school regarding a report of a shooting. Officers arrived on scene and located a 19-year-old man […]
KENDALL, Fla. May 17 2021 – A gun-shaped knife led police to shoot a shoplifting suspect Friday night at The Falls in Kendall, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. Just before 8:30 p.m., police were called to a possible shoplifting incident near the Macy’s store, according to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a spokesman for the department. “As […]
ST LOUIS MO May 16 2021— A little more than a year into an overhaul of security on the region’s mass transit system, Fredrick Watford has noticed a change on his daily commute. “A lot more peaceful,” Watford said Tuesday afternoon on the way to his job at St. Louis Lambert International Airport from downtown. […]
HOUSTON TX May 15 2021 — A security guard is expected to be OK after an overnight shooting at a bar on Richmond Avenue, according to the Houston Police Department. The call came in just after midnight Saturday in the 5600 block of Richmond. According to police, there were reports of multiple shots fired and a […]