A brawl at a high school in Louisiana was captured on video, but parents are more upset that a school officer used pepper spray to break up the fight. The video appeared to show a large group of students watching and recording as two girls began throwing punches at each other at the Magnolia School of Excellence in Shreveport on Monday. A school resource officer reportedly used pepper spray to break up the crowd. The video was posted to TikTok, and the description read simply, "Moments...
An increasing number of defibrillators are being installed across venues in the city, but if you were ever placed in a situation of needing to use one would you know what to do? Last month (March) it was announced by the Sunderland Health and Wellbeing Board that 29 new defibrillators were being installed across the city. Although Sunderland still lags behind when compared to the national average of defibrillators for every 10,000 people, there’s no denying they can be the difference between...
A police tech company that makes body cams and tasers has released a new futuristic product that has some people unnerved: an AI camera that generates police reports from audio. [Read More]
A 53-year-old man is dead following an incident involving a Maui Police Department officer and taser.
The police, alongside special force known as the ‘Greyhounds’, have increased security operations including setting up check posts at the inter-state borders.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened? When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For years, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has been working to comply with a federal settlement agreement over the department's use of force. Now, APD said they've reached a key milestone. As part of the agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, APD has been working to review a backlog of more []
The use of drones by India’s police raises multiple unanswered questions, and can infringe upon people’s fundamental right to privacy, movement, and even to conduct protests.
A 56-year-old Tesla Model S driver said he was using Autopilot when he hit and killed someone on a motorcycle last week about 15 miles outside Seattle.The Washington State Patrol's affidavit said the driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide "based on the admitted inattention to driving," while on Autopilot mode and using a cell phone while driving, according to a CNBC report. The department did not respond to Business Insider's request for records.The driver told a Washington State...
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: What is this country coming to when a Jewish man trying to cross the street in his home city is prevented from doing so by police for fear of upsetting a mob
(The Center Square) – In 2021, the Washington State Legislature enacted Senate Bill 5259 directing the state Attorney General's Office to build a police use of force database that would continually receive information from state law enforcement agencies. According to the bill's fiscal note, the "approximate timeline" for the project would be to have it up and running by April 2023. However, a year past that date the database has yet to be operational. Washington State University...
Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop CityPolice have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to...