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Students at Occidental College who have occupied an administration building this week have demanded that campus safety officers stop wearing bulletproof vests.

This month the American Civil Liberties Union is set to release its new “Mobile Justice” smartphone app aimed at aiding citizens to record police and report purported misconduct.

On Thursday, a question was asked that had never been asked before in California: if a self-driving car is stopped by police for an infraction, who gets the ticket–the driver or the car?

Residents of one Orange Country neighborhood are reeling after a mysterious SUV engulfed in flames rolled down their street Monday afternoon and into one man’s driveway with three dead adults seated inside.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a few pointed comments about racism and law enforcement in an Interview with Bleacher Report prior to the November 3 release of the HBO documentary/biography Minority of One revolving around the former NBA superstar.

Although they are estranged, actor Tony Tarantino is the father of Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino, and late last week the elder Tarantino made headlines speaking out against the objectively appalling comments his famous son made ten days ago at an

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is criticizing Quentin Tarantino for his anti-police comments, pointing out that the famous Hollywood director has a history of being wrong on the issues.

Two teenage women found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Los Angeles park that has a history of crime are raising police and community member alarm.

A woman was able to break free from a police officer while being arrested by using her car as a weapon. According to a report by Fox32Chicago, Officer Martin Mikolajczak spotted a driver last week with a suspended license and he

On October 27, driver Steven Hildreth Jr. was armed and wearing a hoodie when he was pulled over for a broken headlight in Tucson, Arizona.

An 8-year-old girl in Illinois is lifting the spirits of police offers all over the U.S. with packages of crosses. The latest package landed with the Chula Vista Police Department in California.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio argued that “there’s a legitimate issue in this country…with minority communities in general, that feel like they’re targeted or they have a bad relationship with local law enforcement,” but also criticized the White

Less than 24 hours after agreeing to a two-year budget deal with the Republican Congress, President Barack Obama slammed Republicans for budget cuts, telling police chiefs in Chicago that they had tried to cut funding for police.

In Anderson, California, population 10,000, the police department has a unique tool to deal with violent suspects: nunchucks.

a small town north of Minneapolis, Minnesota has joined two other municipalities supporting the idea of categorizing attacks on police as hate crimes.

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel says intense media and public criticism is making police officers too passive – “going fetal” – and is allowing crime to spike.

On Wednesday, a woman who alleged her breasts were exposed by police before she was thrown into a police van without being covered up in 2012 was awarded $95,000 by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates.

On Friday evening, a 15-year-old jihadi gunned down a civilian police employee as he was walking out of a suburban Sydney police station. Australian Islamist groups have refused to condemn the killing, which the authorities described as politically motivated terrorism, while playing coy as to the killer’s exact motivations.

A German police commissioner has told an audience of how “delinquent”, mainly Muslim migrants refuse to accommodate to their host nations, adding: “We have an increasing number of migrants in Germany, and many have not learned to have respect for

Omaha, Nebraska, police have arrested John Tompkins, 55, for allegedly telling two officers, “You are marked for death. I’m going to kill you because of what you do to black people. I’m going to find your wife and kids and kill those (expletive) too.”

On Tuesday, a drunk Cincinnati woman engineered a trifecta, allegedly crashing her car into the patio of a restaurant, telling patrons to attack police if they arrested her, and assaulting a police officer.

Two young Ohioans, fancying themselves Bonnie and Clyde-types, allegedly robbed a bank, then went home and took selfies to post on Facebook, leading police to arrest them days later.

New York police arrested the mother of a newborn for killing the baby by throwing it out a 7th-story window, reports revealed on Tuesday.

Perhaps one of the most significant changes to the UK criminal justice system in the twentieth century was the suspension of capital punishment in 1965 in Great Britain. This was followed by its permanent abolition in 1969. The British public

On Saturday, roughly 100 LAPD officers joined other citizens to march through Hollywood in a show of support for the LAPD and its members. The rally was organized by the Los Angeles Police Protective League; participants wore T-shirts emblazoned, “Blue Lives Matter” and carried signs reading “Police Lives Matter”, and “They bleed blue.”

A ghost-hunting couple, who had guest-starred on a reality television program about the paranormal, were found dead inside their daughter’s Sparks, Nevada, apartment earlier this week, police said Thursday.

A convicted felon who accidentally shot himself in the penis was arrested after police say he lied about how the shooting happened.

Peru has been gripped by a massive crisis of law and order, with trust for ineffectual police and courts dropping to fearfully low levels. Vigilante justice is now being meted out on the streets—and, of course, uploaded to Facebook.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is targeting a Georgia police officer after he put a decal reading “In God We Trust” on the back of his patrol car.

On September 20, U2 canceled a concert in Stockholm after reports that an off-duty officer made it through security with a gun on his person.

On the night of September 15/16 two men allegedly robbed an off-duty Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Deputy of his badge at gunpoint in Cleveland, Ohio.

A Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia was at the center of controversy on Tuesday when a story was posted to Facebook revealing that a “liberal” clerk recently refused to let a city police officer use the restroom.

After Sunday services, some 350 church goers made their way three blocks from the church building to the front steps of police headquarters on Columbia Avenue, where they were met by the chief of police and several on duty officers, who warmly received them. “I’ve met with dozens of police officers and federal agents in the last two months and heard from them how they have felt a increasing sense of danger and a loss of support from the community,” the church pastor tells Breitbart News.

California-based Alternative Ballistics has invented a clip-on accessory that renders the first round fired by a police officer less-than-lethal.

Former tennis star James Blake, once ranked fourth in the world, is calling for the NYPD officer who mistook him for a thief and body-slammed him to the ground to be fired.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – A Houston teenager has been arrested in Baton Rouge and charged with first degree rape of a 3-year-old.