Miami Dade FL March 17 2019 In mid-January, veteran Miami-Dade Schools police officer David Thompson injured his knee while taking a high school student being questioned about a burglary into custody. A month later he underwent surgery to repair the damage. Last week, he died of a heart attack. As of Thursday, the Broward County […]
RALEIGH, N.C. March 14 2019 Several “assault-style” guns, large capacity ammo magazines, and a large ammunition box have been seized from a student’s SUV parked in a North Carolina State University parking deck. The information was revealed in a search warrant made public today by NCSU police. In that search warrant, a detective writes that the […]
Portland Oregon March 5 2019 Portland Democratic Rep. Diego Hernandez and the Oregon Student Association introduced a bill Thursday looking to disarm campus police at Portland State University and the University of Oregon. The practice of having armed campus officers has drawn scrutiny from students and some faculty and staff at Oregon universities following incidents involving […]
PROVO UT Feb 28 2019 — Brigham Young University’s police department was decertified by the state. Now, the university has decided to appeal that decision. BYU received a letter from the Department of Public Safety dated Feb. 20 that declared the state’s intent to decertify the university’s police department. DPS claimed BYU police had not met […]
Texas City TX Feb 23 2019 Last May, a deranged student entered Santa Fe High School in Texas and opened fire. Ten people were killed and 10 others were injured. The weapon of choice for the gunman was a .38 caliber revolver. Over the last year, the nearby town of Texas City is implementing a radical […]
Boston MA Feb 15 2019 The Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in Boston is both the last remaining four-year state college and the last remaining Colleges of the Fenway institution whose Campus Police Officers do not carry guns. Other institutions in the area have had their CPOs armed for many years: Tufts University voted […]
BALTIMORE MD Jan 26 2019— The Baltimore City school board voted unanimously to oppose a measure that would have allowed school police officers to carry weapons during the day. The school board’s vote effectively kills HB31, which would have overturned a previous prohibition on school police officers carrying guns in schools. Del. Cheryl D. Glenn, […]
BLACKSBURG, Va. January 24 2019 There’s a new K9 at the Virginia Tech Police Department. K-9 Zuka is a 16-month-old German shepherd from the Czech Republic. Zuka was trained through the North American Police Work Dog Association and Virginia Police Work Dog Association. Zuka will provide apprehension and narcotic detection services for the department. He replaces […]
McKinney TX Jan 22 2019 A school counselor in McKinney is thanking a police officer for saving her life. The officer was in the right place at the right time when the counselor began choking on a piece of her favorite candy. It happened around noon on December 14 at Dowell Middle School. Rayshana Adams […]
IOWA CITY, Ia. December 29 2018— Three former managers for the University of Iowa police force claim in lawsuits that their jobs were eliminated as part of a “culture of discrimination” against older workers and other protected employees. Their lawsuits allege the university ignored complaints about discriminatory hiring and promotion practices under Department of Public […]