RALEIGH, North Carolina Jan 1 2022 Tear gas was used to stop a large fight that broke out during a basketball tournament at Wake Technical Community College’s Northern Wake campus on Wednesday night. The fight interrupted a final game in the 49th John Wall Holiday Invitational — one of the top high school basketball tournaments in […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. December 31, 2021, Police are investigating after a shooting at a high school holiday basketball tournament Wednesday evening at Catawba College in Salisbury. Police said two minors were shot at the Sam Moir Christmas Tournament, a basketball event that featured schools from Rowan County. The shooting happened during halftime of West Rowan and […]
FLORENCE, Ala. Dec 30, 2021 – A University of North Alabama police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the University of North Alabama alleging age and gender discrimination regarding her pay. The complaint filed Dec. 21, alleges 40-year-old Shequanda Jenkins was paid less than male police officers. She says she has more law enforcement […]
New Jersey Dec 30 2021 State officials want to allocate $5.15 million for school security upgrades in New Jersey. Gov. Phil Murphy and Acting Commissioner of Education Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan submitted the request as part of the Securing Our Children’s Future Bond Act (SOCFBA). State legislators must approve the request. “This second round of awards […]
Northridge CA December 29 2021 This semester, the university hired a consulting firm that has met with more than 30 groups to understand how students, faculty and staff feel about campus policing. PMJ Consulting LLC was hired by the Division of Student Affairs to conduct conversations with the CSUN community about reshaping the […]
Long Beach CA December 29, 2021 The mother of Mona Rodriguez — the Long Beach teen who died after being shot in the head by a “school safety officer” in late September — is suing both the shooter and the Long Beach Unified School District for her daughter’s “wrongful death.” The civil suit contains striking allegations […]
MADISON, Wis. Dec 28, 2021— Madison police arrested a 42-year-old man who allegedly threatened to blow up Madison College on Christmas Eve. In a blog post, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said a 911 dispatcher got a call around 6:53 p.m. from a man who said he had a bomb and was going to blow up […]
OMAHA, Neb. —Dec 28 2021 A judge has set bond at $2.5 million for a former Omaha Public Schools security guard accused of sexually assaulting a child. Carlos J. Ornelas Ramirez, 23, was arrested by Bellevue Police on Dec. 22 and was charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child and third-degree sexual assault […]
WHEATLAND, Calif. Dec 27 2021 The Wheatland Police Department arrested a Nevada County man who they said made a threat against a school almost two hours away from him in Yuba County. Truckee resident Dominic White, 22, was arrested after he threatened to “shoot up” Wheatland Union High School on social media, the police department […]
Charlotte NC Dec 27 2021 Threats of school violence continue to pour in, and officials are wrestling with how to best handle the influx. According to James Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University and a co-founder of the Violence Project, a non-profit research center, more than 150 threats were made nationwide […]