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How the Las Vegas Shooting Could Change Police Tactics
A trained sharpshooter firing from atop the University of Texas Tower in 1966 introduced many Americans to mass casualty attacks, but almost all of the large-scale shootings since then — including Sandy Hook and Orlando — have taken place at ground level with the gunman killing from relatively close range. -
Texas Tech Student in Custody After Campus Police Officer Is Fatally Shot
HOUSTON — A college freshman shot and killed a campus police officer at Texas Tech University in Lubbock on Monday night after the student was taken to the university police station for questioning in a drug-related case, the authorities said. -
After Las Vegas Shooting, a Tight-Lipped Sheriff Faces a Maddening Case
LAS VEGAS — In nearly 30 years with the Las Vegas police, Joseph Lombardo has helped defuse an armed standoff between federal agents and local ranchers, struggled to contain a spike in homicides and defended his officers against accusations of using excessive force against a professional football player. -
Ohio Officer Shown on Video Beating Black Motorist Is Fired
police officer in Ohio who was recorded beating a black motorist during a traffic stop in August has been fired, officials said. -
Bipartisan Group Plans to Urge Trump to Adjust Policing Policies
Some of the nation’s most prominent prosecutors, police chiefs and criminal justice overhaul advocates — including Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, as well as representatives from the conservative Koch brothers network — will gather in Washington for the National Law Enforcement Summit. The former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general whom Mr. Trump abruptly fired in the first few days of his presidency, will speak. -
Taliban Breach Afghan Police Posts, Killing Dozens
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 46 Afghan police officers, including a senior general, were killed in two separate Taliban attacks on Tuesday, officials said, highlighting the heavy cost paid by the country’s police force amid the Afghan war’s escalating violence. -
Police Evaluations Should Focus on Lawfulness of Stops, Monitor Says
A court-appointed monitor overseeing changes for the New York Police Department has asked a judge to enshrine a new evaluation system for officers that de-emphasizes the number of street stops they make and focuses instead on the lawfulness of those encounters. -
Body Cameras Have Little Effect on Police Behavior, Study Says
After a series of high-profile police shootings, police departments across the nation turned to body cameras, hoping they would curb abuses. But a rigorous study released Friday shows that they have almost no effect on officer behavior. -
A Big Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations
For seven months, just over a thousand Washington, D.C., police officers were randomly assigned cameras — and another thousand were not. Researchers tracked use-of-force incidents, civilian complaints, charging decisions and other outcomes to see if the cameras changed behavior. But on every metric, the effects were too small to be statistically significant. Officers with cameras used force and faced civilian complaints at about the same rates as officers without cameras. -
In St. Louis, Protests Over Police Violence Disrupt Economy, and Win Attention
ST. LOUIS — Chris Sommers, who runs a chain of successful pizza restaurants here, has long supported both sides in the fierce standoff between police officers and black residents playing out in this city. He donated to civil rights groups after the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which is just 10 miles away. He also backed officers, giving them discounts at his pizzerias and supporting the mayoral candidate endorsed by the police union. -
Trial to Begin for Off-Duty Officer Charged in Fatal Traffic Dispute
The police said Officer Isaacs, who was driving home after a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift, fired his service pistol, striking Mr. Small in the arm, chest and abdomen. Officer Isaacs, who joined the department in 2013, stayed at the scene and told investigators that he acted in self-defense after Mr. Small punched him through an open window. -
In Trial, Officer Recalls Chaos of Shooting That Killed His Partner
More than two years after the New York City police officer Brian Moore was fatally shot while on patrol in Queens, his fellow officers relived that night, as testimony began on Monday in the trial of the man prosecutors say killed him with two bullets to the head from a silver revolver. -
When It Comes to Surveillance, Watch the Watchmen
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted this month to allow the Police Department to use drones in a one-year pilot program. Whatever one thinks of this technology, the public debate about the issue and the vote by the board, a five-member civilian oversight group, was refreshing — but all too rare. Americans deserve transparency and detailed information about the surveillance tools the police are using or considering, and they’re often denied it. -
Suffolk Prosecutor Charged With Obstructing Police Assault Investigation
Thomas J. Spota, the Suffolk County district attorney, and his top anti-corruption prosecutor were charged on Wednesday with witness tampering and obstructing a federal investigation into the beating of a suspect by the county’s former police chief. -
Police Officer Ryan Nash Ended New York Rampage With 9 Bullets
On Tuesday afternoon,Sayfullo Saipov killed eight people and injuring 12 more, before crashing in front of Stuyvesant High School.
Then he began to run.There was Officer Ryan Nash.
He fired 9 bullets to end the terrorist attack. The police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, said Tuesday that one bullet struck Mr. Saipov in his abdomen. Mr. Saipov, who the police said was responsible for the attack, was brandishing two weapons, which turned out to be a pellet gun and a paintball gun. -
Arrested Nurse Settles With Salt Lake City and University for $500,000
A Utah nurse who was forcefully detained by a police officer in July settled with the University of Utah and Salt Lake City on Tuesday for a total of $500,000. The rough arrest of the nurse, who had refused the officer’s request to draw a sedated patient’s blood as part of a police investigation, was captured on body camera video and viewed widely online. -
New York Police Officers Facing Rape Charges Quit the Force
The two New York City officers charged last week with raping an 18-year-old woman after a drug stop in September quit the Police Department on Monday, three days before they were scheduled to face an internal trial. -
Police Officer Found Not Guilty in Off-Duty Shooting of Unarmed Man
A New York City police officer was acquitted on Monday of murder and manslaughter charges in the off-duty killing of an unarmed man who the officer said attacked him last year during a late-night traffic dispute in Brooklyn. -
In Texas Shooting, Gunman Kills at Least 26
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — The moments following a horrific mass shooting that left 26 people dead at a Sunday church service in this rural Texas town came into clearer view on Monday morning, as the county sheriff detailed a firefight and car chase that ended with the gunman dead after a crash. -
It’s Not Too Soon to Debate Gun Control
Orlando, Dallas, Las Vegas, and now Sutherland Springs. Each location has only recently experienced an unthinkable tragedy at the hands of a mass murderer and his guns. The latest, in the small Texas town, involved a man reportedly using a rifle to kill at least 26 people while they worshipped. Beyond these tragedies, which understandably seize the public’s attention, are dozens more in cities around America – nearly one per day.