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The St. Petersburg Police Department in Florida said Thursday that it will hire social workers to respond to non-violent calls.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively that the only thing “standing between” America and the radical agenda of the “far left” is a second term for President Donald Trump.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Bill Hemmer Reports,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that he thinks there is an opportunity for police reform to be resurrected and common ground can be found between Republicans and

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday after demonstrators in Salt Lake City clashed with police following the district attorney clearing officers involved in the shooting death of 22-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal.

A group of retired police officers has formed a PAC devoted to electing pro-police candidates to state and municipal offices.

Only 18 percent of Americans believe that those who are calling to “defund the police” actually want to eliminate police departments, a Monmouth Poll released Wednesday revealed.

BOSTON (AP) – At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month.

No administration did more to militarize law enforcement than former President Barack Obama’s, said Sonnie Johnson, addressing former Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks about the provision of surplus military equipment to police officers.

During an interview with ABC News released on Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr stated that there is “a widespread phenomenon” of African Americans, particularly black males being treated “with extra suspicion and maybe not given the benefit of the doubt”

New York state Democrats are looking to require New York Police Department (NYPD) officers to have personal liability insurance rather than having the help of city attorneys for lawsuits filed against them. 

The District of Columbia Council has passed what is being referred to as emergency legislation to reform D.C.’s policing just weeks after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said law enforcement “become the enemy” when using “surplus military equipment” and operating an invading military in American neighborhoods, offering his comments in a Wednesday-published interview with Ady Barkan for NowThis News.

Demonstrators in Portland engaged in what was dubbed a “night of rage” to avenge the death of a Black Lives Matter protester who died over the weekend after a man drove his vehicle on a closed freeway, where a protest was taking place.

Citizens across the nation are showing their support for law enforcement officers amid calls to defund the police.

A human head was discovered Tuesday on the side of a road in St. Petersburg, Florida, according to authorities.

Wikipedia editors have censored the page about the police-involved shooting of Rayshard Brooks by removing any mention of Brooks’ violent criminal history, despite him violently resisting arrest which precipitated police use of force. Criticism of District Attorney Paul Howard’s decision to charge officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder has also been removed.

LONDON (AP) – British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner have accused London police of racial profiling after officers stopped and searched the couple’s car, with their 3-month-old son inside.

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted and beaten by another woman at the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday.

An intoxicated man holding a beer shot and killed a police officer Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, when he responded to a disturbance call, according to police.

The Fraternal Order of Police said that the national climate that is “attacking and demonizing the police” has led to a record number of cops quitting and retiring in Kentucky.

Community members in Las Vegas, Nevada, are showing their support for a Metropolitan Police officer battling lung cancer.

Protesters in Jacksonville, Florida — home of the upcoming GOP convention — placed body bags outside of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) on Thursday, following nationwide Black Lives Matter protests demanding police reform.

Virginia Democrats are eager to declare open season on law enforcement by downgrading an assault on a police officer from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said that Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers who felt demoralized by recent protests and budget cuts should take heart and “remember why they became police officers.”

Police responded to a protest that descended into a violent riot in north Portland after demonstrators threw rocks and water bottles at officers, shined lasers in their eyes, and attempted to set fires near the precinct.

Seattle police have released videos of the Capital Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) “autonomous zone” where violent confrontations took place over the course of a three-week occupation before authorities shut it down Wednesday.

President Donald Trump blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Wednesday after the mayor, who promised $1 billion in cuts to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), affirmed the addition of “Black Lives Matter” mural painted on Fifth Avenue  — a move the president says will “antagonize New York’s finest.”

During a town hall on MSNBC on Tuesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said there must be a “full rethinking and reshaping of the way that our police department does business” and improper behavior should be abolished, but “We don’t need to be abolishing the police.” And cities “including Minneapolis, ne

The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion Tuesday to replace Los Angeles Police Department officers with unarmed “crisis response” personnel to be assigned to “non-violent calls for service” such as “neighbor disputes.”

A majority of voters in New York state did not support reducing funding for police departments, a survey released Tuesday found.