HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A Florida police officer was found dead early Monday in Plantation. The Hollywood Police Department on Tuesday identified him as Lt. John Graham, a 20-year veteran of their agency. The Plantation Police Department responded to a call around 3 a.m. Monday, when officers discovered a deceased individual inside a vehicle outside the Read More >

Twice, the suspect reached into his waistband and mimed drawing a gun

The city’s mandate required officers to report their vaccine status by last Friday

INDIANA — Chicago police officers as well as other law enforcement professionals in Illinois who may soon be unemployed due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates can look to their neighbors in Indiana for less stringent requirements, according to Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., who says the officers “deserve respect.” “Our police do the hardest job in the Read More >

Justices reversed rulings in two separate cases related to use-of-force lawsuits

10/19/21 Pandemics Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 218 million infections and over 4.5 million deaths as of 3 September 2021. Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as case isolation, quarantining contacts, and the complete lockdown of entire countries, were implemented in an effort to contain the pandemic. But Read More >

10/19/21 Misinformation Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The global race to develop new stem cell-based COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic was filled with violations of government regulations, inflated medical claims and distorted public communication, say the authors of a new perspective published 15 October in the journal Stem Cell Reports. read more

FORT SMITH, Ark. — An Arkansas police officer was slashed in the neck with a weapon before opening fire and fatally shooting a suspect who stabbed and beat his 15-year-old son to death with a rock. Officers also found a woman who was killed after receiving multiple stabs wounds. The police chief confirmed three deaths Read More >

10/18/21 Extremism Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The man held for the fatal stabbing last week of a British lawmaker had been referred to the British government’s anti-extremism program, called Prevent, because of his radical Islamist views, but the country’s security services, including MI5 – Britain’s domestic intelligence agency – had not deemed him Read More >

As part of a series of events honoring law enforcement personnel who have died in the line of duty, the FBI recognized the sacrifices of its partners and honored its own fallen.