St Louis County MO Jan 9 2021 When a police officer rang the doorbell Monday morning at Porscha Outen’s home in north St. Louis County, her mind raced through every possible emergency. The officer wanted to speak to Outen’s 15-year-old daughter Paris about a failing grade at Ritenour High School, which she is attending virtually for […]
Provo UT January 8 2021 Brigham Young University will keep its police department after an administrative law judge took the surprising step of tossing the case where state officials had sought to strip the private campus of its policing powers. The decision comes almost two years after the Department of Public Safety announced in February […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. Jan 7 2021 No foul play is suspected after a man died in the back of a rideshare vehicle on the University of Maryland grounds, according to campus police. This happened early Friday morning near Ehrensberger Drive, which is near the UMGC/Marriott parking garage Officers said the rideshare driver picked up the victim, […]
NORTON MA Jan 6 2021 — Wheaton College is laying off most of its public safety officers and hiring a private security company to patrol the campus. The dozen or so public safety officers, who have arrest powers on all campus and college property but do not carry guns, will work until Jan. 11, according to […]
OGLESBY, Ill. Jan 4 2021 The Oglesby Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle Tuesday night, but when the suspect pulled a gun, then fired at officers and stole a police vehicle, a chase ensued. “With all the shots that were fired, it’s surprising that no-one was seriously injured,” Lasalle County Sheriff, Tom […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan January 1 2021— A Michigan man is being held on one million dollars bond after a Tuesday night incident where he allegedly opened fire with a pistol on Oglesby Police Officers on the campus of Illinois Valley Community College. According to WGLC, The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say that 35-year-old Peter Douglas […]
Eugene OR December 31 2020 In June, the Eugene School Board had to decide whether to renew its contract for school resource officers. The contentious decision came at the height of a new racial justice movement around police reform. After hours of discussion, where some called for the officersto be removed immediately while others pleaded […]
Eugene OR December 29 2020 As the University of Oregon Police Department reduces its number of armed officers, unarmed community service officers will take their place with expanded roles around campus, according to a campus-wide email Nov. 9 from UO President Michael Schill that listed new reforms to UOPD. UOPD Chief Matt Carmichael said that the […]
Costa Mesa CA Dec 26 2020 An Orange Coast College student being sexually assaulted by a man on campus was able to get away because a good Samaritan saw the attack and intervened, Costa Mesa police said Thursday, Dec. 24. The 19-year-old student was walking near the Horticulture area and the Technology building just before […]
La Crosse WI Dec 24 2020 The School District of La Crosse Board of Education voted to phase police out of its schools, after months of investigating the program found it negatively impacted marginalized students in the district. Police officers will no longer be regularly in school buildings, and the district will begin reducing the […]