ATLANTA GA Feb 11 2020 The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a shootout that left a person dead outside a nightclub. An off-duty Atlanta police officer fired at the suspects. Police also recovered several weapons. Channel 2’s Lauren Pozen was on Courtland at the intersection of John Portman, where the Hilton is, Sunday. That stretch […]
MINNEAPOLIS MN Feb 9 2020 — Concerned about police officer exhaustion and burnout, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, police Chief Medaria Arradondo and other leaders have formed a task force charged with overhauling the department’s off-duty employment program. The task force was announced at a City Hall news conference on Wednesday morning. It will be headed by […]
Birmingham AL January 27 2020 An off-duty officer, Birmingham Police Department narcotics Detective was shot while working as a church security officer. John Finke, was shot Sunday morning and is said to be in critical condition, currently fighting for his life in the ICU following emergency surgery. Detective Finke was working as security at Church […]
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. Jan 27 2020— Shots rang out inside a DeKalb County sports bar Saturday morning, sending frightened patrons running into the parking lot, police said. The gunfire erupted about 3:40 a.m. following a fight inside Dabomb Sports Grill on Evans Mill Road in Lithonia, DeKalb police spokesman Sgt. Davin Morgan said. Bar employees […]
Little Rock AR January 10 2020 A jury trial is scheduled to begin April 6 in a Little Rock federal courtroom over an off-duty Little Rock police officer’s shooting of two men in Park Plaza mall’s lower parking deck in 2011. The case, delayed by the city’s unsuccessful appeal of a 2018 pretrial ruling, was set […]
Miami FL Jan 10 2020 Many major cities let private companies hire city cops for off-duty security work. But not many cities are quite like Miami, where some nightclubs operate 24/7 and tourists and the wealthy openly flaunt hard drugs. For years, officers with the Miami Police Department have been hired to work all sorts of […]
Houston TX January 8 2020 An off-duty Houston police sergeant working an extra job as a security guard at a Midtown business opened fire on a man who was pistol-whipping and robbing a homeless person across the street Monday afternoon, police say. The sergeant, who was not immediately identified, spotted the struggle on Hadley Street […]
DALLAS TX November 19 2019 — The Dallas Police Department is going to slash the number of hours officers can work off-duty jobs — from 72 hours each week to just 40. That’s in response to a November 2018 City Hall audit that said officers are taking too many off-duty jobs and working far too many […]
Charlotte NC November 17 2019 A 33-year-old man was fatally shot around 2:15 a.m. Friday near the Epicentre in uptown in an incident involving two Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers working off-duty as added security at the entertainment complex. Treon McCoy died, police said, and another person, who was not identified, was injured by gunfire near South College […]
New York City NY November 16 2019 A police officer is dead and two others critically injured in a car crash on the FDR Drive early Saturday, police sources said. The deadly accident occurred when the officer, a 25-year-old man driving north on the FDR near 23rd Street at about 2:30 a.m., lost control of […]