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Parkland, FL – The city of Parkland has asked the Broward Sheriff’s Office to remove the incident commander who allegedly botched the handling of the scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A press release from the city said that Broward Sheriff’s Captain Jan Jordan would be replaced at the request of City Manager Bob […]

Boston, MA – A man who fatally struck an 80-year-old pedestrian with his car and sped away expressed no remorse during a television interview that ultimately led to his arrest for homicide (video below). “People hit and run people all the time, you see what I’m sayin?” Phocian Fitts told WSB. “So it’s like, it […]

Springfield, SD – A little more than five months ago, Bon Homme County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Maggs announced his candidacy for sheriff. Now the newly-elected sheriff has been fired from his job as a deputy. One minute after the polls closed on the Republican primary on Tuesday night, his opponent and boss, Sheriff Lenny Gramkow, […]

St. Louis, MO – A former St. Louis police officer who was maliciously prosecuted for the on-duty shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith has filed a lawsuit against the prosecutor and internal investigator who compiled the case against him. “I don’t want to [file this lawsuit,]” former St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley told the […]

A video posted on Facebook of a man picking up a police officer and dumping him on his head on Tuesday has been shared more than 750,000 times (video below). Neither the officer who was assaulted, nor his department, were identified in the video, which appeared to have been posted by a friend of the […]

Bon Homme County, SD – Bon Homme County Sheriff Lenny Gramkow demonstrated incredibly poor sportsmanship when he fired the deputy who had just beaten him one minute after he lost in a landslide. Deputy Mark Maggs defeated Sheriff Gramkow in the Republican primary election with 878 votes to the sheriff’s 331 votes, the Dakota Free […]

Miami-Dade County, FL – A Florida Highway Patrol trooper, who was injured when a crazed motorist intentionally rammed her patrol vehicle on the Florida Turnpike, still managed to chase down the suspect and arrest him (video below). Despite her heroic takedown, the trooper was subsequently scolded by department administrators, the Miami Herald reported. The incident […]

Decatur, IL – An Illinois man who fatally shot his two-year-old nephew while playing “cops and robbers” was sentenced to two years of probation on Wednesday. Macon County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Geisler said that Zachary Pherigo, 18, had expressed remorse for killing the toddler and that his greatest punishment would be having to live […]

Richmond, VA – Police said that an active-duty Army National Guard officer, who stole an armored personnel carrier from Fort Pickett, and led police on a two-hour chase on Tuesday night, was on drugs at the time of the incident. Virginia State Police said that First Lieutenant Joshua Philip Yabut, 29, managed to commandeer the […]

Mesa, AZ – The Mesa Police Department has placed one sergeant and three officers on administrative leave, after a surveillance video showed them using force during an arrest at an apartment complex on May 23 (video below). The incident took place at approximately 11:24 p.m., after officers received a call of a woman in distress […]