Jacksonville, Florida October 29 2021 – Like many other U.S. employers struggling to fill job openings, Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are finding it very difficult to hire and then retain its campus police officers. DCPS has 22 officer vacancies – five in secondary schools and 17 in primary schools, reports News4Jax. Of its 93 recent […]
WASHINGTON DC October 29 2021— Special Police Officer Angela Washington, a mother of four, was fatally shot in September. DC Police are still searching for her killer. Officers arrived on scene in the 3300 block of 10th Place, Southeast on Sept. 21 to find Washington, 41, showing no signs of life, suffering from a gunshot […]
BUTLER COUNTY, Kan. October 28 2021 The Butler County Sheriff’s Office said a patrol deputy, and part-time police officer for the City of Burns, died Monday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash. The crash happened just before 5 p.m. in the 5200 Block of NW Hwy 77, El Dorado, while 44-year-old Stephen Evans was on duty for […]
Pontoon Beach IL. October 28 2021 The Pontoon Beach police officer who was airlifted to a St. Louis hospital after being shot at a gas station Tuesday morning has died from his injuries, Illinois State Police confirmed. Tyler Timmins approached what he suspected to be a stolen vehicle at the Speedway gas station at the […]
Jefferson County AL October 28 2021 A 1-year-old Fairfield girl nearly died from a fentanyl overdose but was quickly revived by a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy who was armed with an anecdote. Deputies were dispatched at 2:36 p.m. Monday to a 911 call from a woman who was screaming that a child had overdosed. When lawmen […]
Boulevard, CA October 28 2021 A former chief of the Manzanita Tribal Police Department pleaded guilty Monday to stealing more than $300,000 from the Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation as part of a scheme to sell police department membership to dozens of unqualified individuals. Anthony Reyes Vazquez, 49, of Camarillo, served as the department’s […]
PITTSBURGH PA October 28 2021 Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Richard Howe has died following complications from COVID-19. Pittsburgh Public Safety announced Thursday in a release that Sgt. Howe died surrounded by loved ones at St. Clair Hospital. He was 51. Public Safety said Howe was a 24-year veteran of the police force. He worked as a motorcycle […]
BELLA VISTA, Ark. October 27 2021 The Bella Vista Police Department announced Saturday the passing of Officer Chris Cummins after a months-long battle against COVID-19. The department took to Facebook, writing “It is with heavy hearts we mourn the passing of one of our own today, and offer our deepest condolences to his family and […]
Harris County TX October 26 2021 Three children were found abandoned in a Texas apartment along with the remains of another juvenile, authorities said. On Sunday, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department said officers responded to an apartment complex in Houston where the three kids were found abandoned in an apartment, with “skeletal remains … […]
NAGS HEAD, N.C. October 26 2021 A couple has been arrested in connection to a case of an infant whose remains were found in the trash 30 years ago in Nags Head. In the morning of April 4, 1991, members of Nags Head Police were sent to the 8600 block of East Tides Drive regarding a […]