Chicago IL Sept 29 2021 A long-running legal battle stemming from the 2017 passenger-dragging fiasco aboard United Airlines Flight 3411 has ended in the city’s favor, finally clarifying the role aviation security officers play in the layers of security that protect O’Hare and Midway airports. In a 12-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman dismissed […]
LOS ANGELES CA Sept 29 2021 An apparent protest of Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles’ mask policy got violent in Anaheim, California. Security guards of the famed restaurant clashed with protesters outside its Anaheim location. Video posted to social media showed at least one man being dragged out of the restaurant by several security guards, as some […]
Covington GA Sept 29 2021 A 26-year-old man is facing assault charges after a security officer reportedly broke his leg trying to subdue the suspect after he became confrontational with hospital staff at Piedmont Newton Hospital early Monday. The man, identified as Master Perry, was charged with Aggravated Battery and Possession of Marijuana of less […]
FOREST PARK, Ohio Sept 29 2021 A security guard is accused of threatening a woman with a knife. Edmund Cunningham faces an aggravated menacing charge. Cunningham is a security guard at Cincinnati Mall, which is the former Forest Fair Mall. A woman told police that he pulled out a large knife and yelled at her to […]
LONG BEACH CA Sept 29 2021 A young woman was shot by a school safety officer near Millikan High School in Long Beach Monday afternoon. Long Beach police rushed to the scene in the 6200 block of East Spring Street where a woman was shot near Millikan High School on Sept. 27, 2021. The shooting took […]
Charlotte NC September 28, 2021 POI Staff One of the areas of policing in many cities that have fallen victim to the Defund the Police movement, budget cuts, and staffing shortages, are local parks. In many communities across the country, it has been the local city and county law enforcement agencies who have patrolled area […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept 28 2021 The operator of the Y-12 Nuclear Complex in Oak Ridge is being sued by its employees for overtime pay. The 727 employees of Consolidated Nuclear Security say they are owed back pay from as far back as three years ago. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Knoxville. The […]
Washington DC Sept 28 2021 The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. The report, which is on par with preliminary numbers that […]
Sacramento CA Sept 28 2021 As Governor Newsom decides whether to sign a package of bills that would reform California’s criminal justice system such as by creating a process to yank badges from bad cops, offering greater access to police records and protecting protesters from rubber bullets, some of the cities that slashed law enforcement […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept 28 2021— A north Florida sheriff’s deputy who was recently shot twice during a traffic stop died Sunday afternoon. Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said via Twitter that Deputy Joshua Moyers, 29, died at a Jacksonville hospital. “Please keep Josh’s family and fiancé in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this […]