PHILADELPHIA — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned or retired, according to the 214 law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF....
Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one
An upstate New York district attorney is under investigation after police bodycam video showed her getting into a heated confrontation with an officer who had stopped her for speeding, calling him an “a--hole" and demanding “leave me alone.” Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley apologized on Monday, a day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul referred the April 22 incident to the State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct. "What I did was wrong — no excuses," Doorley said in her apology. "I...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general’s office has released police body camera footage showing New York City police officers shooting and killing a 19-year-old man who had called 911 during a mental health crisis. The video was released as part of the investigation into the March 27 death of Win Rozario inside the
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general’s office has released police body camera footage showing New York City police officers shooting and killing a 19-year-old man who had called 911 during a mental health crisis. The video was released as part of the investigation into the March 27 death of Win Rozario inside the
NYPD body cameras show mother pleading “Don’t shoot!” before officers kill her 19-year-old son
NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers repeatedly fired their guns at a New York City man who had called 911 during a mental health crisis as his mother and younger brother begged officers not to shoot, bodycam video released Friday shows. Win Rozario’s family called on the officers to be fired and charged with murder […]
Law enforcement agencies and people across the state are sharing messages of support and paying their respects to the family of a fallen Santaquin police officer.
SANTAQUIN, Utah, May 5, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Less than seven hours after a Santaquin police officer responded to a traffic incident on Interstate 15 and was struck and killed by a semi driver, he was transported north to the medical examiner’s office in a solemn funeral procession on the very road where he lost […] The post Police, Santaquin officials share details after officer’s line-of-duty death, suspect’s arrest first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a ban on TikTok, the popular social media app that U.S. lawmakers have said is susceptible to data manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party — and a platform that Biden's own re-election campaign is using to reach young voters. The bill gives TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, up to one year to sell the app or be banned from the U.S. Yet despite the looming court fight over ByteDance's divestment and the persistent...
Republican senator says Noem’s story of killing her 14-month-old hunting dog makes her unlikely to be Trump’s running mateMitt Romney may have infamously tied a dog in a kennel to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip but at least he didn’t shoot it, the Utah Republican senator said, as outrage over the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, telling her story of killing a 14-month-old hunting dog continued to ripple through US politics.“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my...
One of my favorite HomeKit features is HomeKit Secure Video, which lets me view and manage security camera recordings right in the Home app. There are a number of different cameras on the market that support this feature, and here are my favorites as someone who’s tested a lot of HomeKit accessories over the years. more