PROBE INTO POLICING OF 1984 MINERS' CLASH RULED OUT

About 10 000 strikers and 5 000 police were involved in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave in June 1984... READ MORE›

IRISH AMONG SIX DEAD IN CALIFORNIA BALCONY COLLAPSE

The police chief said it took patrolmen about two minutes to arrive on the scene... READ MORE›

CLINTON VOICES CONFIDENCE IN RAHM EMANUEL AS CHICAGO MAYOR

In Iowa, the Democratic front-runner also called for a deeper look into the nation's visa waiver program following the shootings in San Bernardino... READ MORE›

CITIES IN U.S. INCREASE SECURITY AFTER PARIS ATTACKS

New York City's Empire State Building and World Trade Center was ordered lit in blue, white and red in solidarity with the French people... READ MORE›

FERGUSON PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN MALLS ACROSS UNITED STATES ON BLACK FRIDAY

Louis protest, starting outside a local shopping mall, ended up outside the Missouri police station and resulted in 15 peoples arrest... READ MORE›

TIANJIN EXPLOSIONS: POLICE ORDER MASS EVACUATION AMID CONTAMINATION FEARS

No people or vehicle allowed within the area, the police officer reportedly said... READ MORE›

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WILL INVESTIGATE PRACTICES OF CHICAGO POLICE

McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago on April 21, 2014... READ MORE›

51% OF CHICAGOANS SAY MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL SHOULD RESIGN

Poll 51 percent of Chicagoans say Mayor Rahm Emanuel should resign... READ MORE›

CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER SUES VICTIM'S FAMILY OVER SHOOTING

His lawyer, Basileios Foutris, said Mr Rialmo's lawsuit was a new low even for the Chicago Police Department ... READ MORE›

All four officers involved in the New York City incident had recently graduated from the city Police Academy... READ MORE›

BLACK LIVES MATTER IS MOUTHY, OFFENSIVE  AND SPOT ON

A postscript There is one Black Lives Matter chapter outside the U.S., in Toronto, where racially tinged police shootings have occurred... READ MORE›

GUNMAN IN OREGON COLLEGE MASSACRE COMMITTED SUICIDE

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told a news conference on Saturday the state medical examiner had determined that the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, took his own life... READ MORE›

Michael Brown shooting Video shows witness saying Ferguson teen had his hands up when police shot him... READ MORE›

FBI JOINS PROBE INTO 'SUSPICIOUS' CIRCUMSTANCES' OF YOUNG BLACK WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN TEXAS POLICE CELL

Sandra Bland FBI joins probe into 'suspicious' circumstances' of young black woman found dead in Texas police cell... READ MORE›

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES CHICAGO POLICE PROBE

Emanuel on Wednesday said he welcomed the Justice Department investigation that he said will ultimately create a stronger, better police department... READ MORE›

CHRISTIE TALKS CRIME ON SAME DAY AS OBAMA VISITS NEW JERSEY

As Obama visits Newark, New Jersey's largest city, to push education for former inmates, Christie was in Camden to tout his tough-on-crime policies... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN TEENAGERS ATTACK ON POLICE WORKER CALLED ACT OF TERRORISM

The police in Australia have been on high alert since a lone gunman took hostages in a cafe in central Sydney in December last year... READ MORE›

NEW YORK, OTHER U.S. CITIES BEEF UP SECURITY AFTER PARIS ATTACKS

Chicago police were following developments in France to determine whether to bolster city security but was not aware of any immediate threats... READ MORE›

CHICAGO COPS' STATEMENTS IN LAQUAN MCDONALD CASE AT ODDS WITH VIDEO

But he told investigators that he did not see who fired, according to police documents... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA COURT SENTENCES 8 EX-POLICEMEN IN IMMIGRANTS MURDER

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, a sociologist who studies migrants in South Africa, said the government has tended to overestimate the number of migrants... READ MORE›

FERGUSON DECISION: OFFICER DARREN WILSON DESCRIBES MICHAEL BROWN AS LIKE 'HULK HOGAN' AND A 'DEMON' IN PUBLISHED TESTIMONY

After grappling, during which Officer Wilson was in his marked police car and Mr Brown was standing outside, the policeman managed to reach his pistol... READ MORE›

FAMILY ASKS FBI TO INVESTIGATE THE FATAL POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED TEEN ZACHARY HAMMOND

Seneca Police Officer Mark Tiller fatally shot 19-year-old Zachary Hammond on 26 July in a Hardee's fast food restaurant parking lot in Seneca South Carolina... READ MORE›

MEXICO OFFERS $3.8M REWARD FOR 'EL CHAPO'

Guzman, through his Sinaloa cartel, is the major supplier of narcotics in Chicago, said Bileck, a retired director of training for the city police department... READ MORE›

QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER APPARENT SUICIDE AS STATE SENATOR CALLS FOR REVIEW OF PRISONS

Sandra Bland Questions remain over apparent suicide as state senator calls for review of prisons... READ MORE›

MUM RUSHED TO HOSPITAL RETURNS HOME TO FIND POLICE HAD DONE SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Then, as the Police Eindhoven Facebook post explains, of course they did the dishes... READ MORE›

VIDEO OF CHICAGO POLICE FATALLY SHOOTING BLACK TEEN LAQUAN MCDONALD RELEASED

Some threw plastic water bottles at officers and sat behind a police vehicle, refusing to move... READ MORE›

'CHILLING' VIDEO SHOWS POLICE OFFICER SHOOTING BLACK TEENAGER 16 TIMES

The mayor of Chicago has publicly appealed for calm after the city released video footage that showed a white police officer shooting dead a black teenager... READ MORE›

BALTIMORE IS HARDLY THE FIRST POLICE DEPARTMENT TO BE INVESTIGATED

A 16-month Justice Department investigation into Albuquerque police was damning Officers routinely violated residents' constitutional rights by beating them, Tasering them, even shooting them dead... READ MORE›

SHOTS FIRED AS FERGUSON MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE POLICE KILLING OF MICHAEL BROWN

Louis County Police Department was involved in an officer-involved shooting after officers came under heavy gunfire, county police spokesman Shawn McGuire said in a statement... READ MORE›

GOVERNOR PULLS NATIONAL GUARD FROM BALTIMORE, LIFTS STATE OF EMERGENCY

Together we have survived troubled times in Baltimore that we haven't seen in a number of years, Gov. Larry Hogan said... READ MORE›