The latest coverage of the law enforcement community and all aspects of the U.S. intelligence.
Michael Bloomberg on Sunday reversed his longstanding support of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a policy he embraced as New York’s mayor even though it disproportionately impacted people of color.
Walmart has quietly hired off-duty officers at its stores in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman police say targeted Mexicans opened fire in a store in August and killed 22 people.
A comedian and radio talk show host told jurors in the Roger Stone trial Friday that the political operative pressured him into backing up lies he told Congress, threatening to take away his dog at one point.
A Wisconsin man who is accused of throwing acid on a Latino man last week and telling him to “go back” to his home country was charged Wednesday with a felony hate crime.
The 2017 death of a Baltimore police detective who had been due to testify about corrupt officers has been ruled a suicide.
Longtime Republican strategist Roger Stone lied to a congressional committee in 2017 because the “the truth looked bad” for President Trump, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday as the Trump confidant’s criminal trial started Wednesday.
Police are trying to identify a suspect accused of fatally stabbing a man who was cutting in line for a chicken sandwich at a Popeyes restaurant in Maryland.
Three experts - one for the defense, one appointed by the court and one picked by prosecutors - found Dimitrios Pagourtzis incompetent to stand trial, said Nick Poehl, one of Pagourtzis’ attorneys.
The FBI says it has arrested a man in a plot to bomb an historic Colorado synagogue. The co-conspirators turned out to be undercover agents.
New York City’s police commissioner is retiring after three years in charge of the nation’s largest police department, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday blasted Montgomery County’s decision to ban the display of a homemade wooden “Thin Blue Line” flag, saying he was “offended and disgusted.”
The resignation of Rep. Katie Hill, California Democrat, prompted her former colleagues to push Friday for Congress to make it a federal crime to share so-called “revenge porn.”
The nation’s largest police organization is criticizing House Democrats’ vote on moving ahead with an impeachment probe of President Trump as violating his due process rights “to score political points.”
Jake Patterson, the man who kidnapped Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents, got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case, showing how word of his crimes has spread and raising questions about whether moving him to an out-of-state lockup accomplished anything.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Georgia sheriff cannot put signs in the yards of three registered sex offenders warning trick-or-treaters when they’re out on Halloween.
A longtime forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says some evidence suggests Epstein died by homicidal strangulation, not suicide by hanging.
With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, the state’s highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the scheduled execution.
Black lawmakers want to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the proposed new FBI headquarters because they think he was a racist, outraging longtime agents who say America’s culture of political correctness and victimhood has gone too far.
A former Boston College student who had “complete and total control” over her boyfriend has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge for encouraging him to take his own life, Boston’s top prosecutor said Monday.
A Missouri cop was awarded $19 million in a discrimination lawsuit last Friday after he was told to turn down his “gayness.”
Senate Democrats are calling for Attorney General William P. Barr to recuse himself from all investigations related to Ukraine, suggesting he played a role in President Trump’s alleged efforts to undermine a political opponent with the help of foreign officials.
President Trump criticized Chicago Monday as “the worst sanctuary city in America,” and slammed the city’s police Superintendent Eddie Johnson for “not doing his job.”
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke on Monday released a plan to reform a “racist” U.S. criminal justice system that includes a goal of reducing incarceration by at least 25,000 inmates during his first term.
Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adam B. Schiff late Thursday condemned the Justice Department for transforming its Russian probe review into a criminal investigation.
The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, a move that is likely to raise concerns that President Trump and his allies may be using the powers of the government to go after their opponents.
Payton Leutner, a Wisconsin girl who was lured into the woods by two friends and stabbed 19 times in an effort to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man said she’s come to terms with aspects of the attack but still sleeps with broken scissors “just in case.”
The Justice Department’s top national security official on Thursday called for a partnership between law enforcement and private businesses to battle Chinese corporate espionage.
Daniel Pantaleo — the former New York Police Department officer fired for the chokehold death of Eric Garner five years ago — sued the NYPD on Wednesday to get his job back.
Investigators searching through garbage found the body of a 3-year-old girl who was missing more than a week, and authorities are charging two people with murder, police said Tuesday.
D.C. residents fought through tears Monday as they expressed frustration with the Metropolitan Police Department’s refusal to release video footage from body-worn cameras showing officers killing their loved ones.
A federal judge last week sentenced a Chinese national to nearly four years in prison for trying to steal U.S. space technology, the latest corporate spy snared by an FBI that has ramped up protection of American businesses amid President Trump’s trade war with Beijing.
The Dominican Republic’s tourism minister said in June that the deaths were not part of any mysterious series of fatalities but were a statistically normal phenomenon being lumped together by the U.S. media.
Chicago’s mayor said Friday that the city’s top police officer told her he’d had “a couple of drinks with dinner” before he fell asleep at a stop sign while driving home, an incident that the chief contends was related to a change in his blood pressure medication.
The suicide of a police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, this week is part of a surge in law enforcers across the country taking their lives, prompting police departments to address concerns about the mental health of their members.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson asked the city’s police department to conduct an internal investigation on himself Thursday after he was found lying down in a car.
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies dismantled the world’s largest child pornography marketplace, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
The Montgomery County police officer who was killed Monday at a Silver Spring parking garage died by his own hand, officials said Tuesday evening.
A white former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting a black woman through a window of her home has been released on bond, and the department told a grieving community that investigators would ensure “no stone is left unturned” in the search for answers.
A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man was found not guilty of murder on Monday.
Montgomery County Police are searching for the person who fatally shot an officer Monday morning in a Silver Spring parking garage — the county’s first fatal shooting of an on-duty police officer since 2003.
A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor’s call about an open front door “didn’t have time to perceive a threat” before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman’s family said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law Friday that will eventually ban privately operated prisons and jails, including immigration detention centers, in a move that could put a strain on Homeland Security’s ability to hold illegal immigrants.
A referendum to amend the state constitution to restore voting rights to some 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions was hailed as a breakthrough in criminal justice reform when voters approved it a year ago.
Suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of 22 people at Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
A counterterrorism analyst was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on two counts of leaking classified national defense information to two NBC-affiliated journalists, including one whom he had a romantic relationship with.
A 9-year-old boy accused of causing a mobile home fire that killed three children and two adults in central Illinois has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
Three Louisiana men are suspected in the killing of a witness who testified at the murder trial of a former Dallas police officer, authorities said Tuesday.
Sen. Patrick Leahy on Tuesday demanded Attorney General William P. Barr answer questions about how federal agencies prevent inmate suicides, especially after the death of accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody.
The inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the country is now considered to be the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Joshua Brown, a “key witness” in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor, has been killed in a shooting.
Baltimore’s top prosecutor has begun asking judges to throw out nearly 800 convictions that she said were tainted by officers linked to a corruption scandal.
Stung by a public outcry, Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. announced Wednesday that he had canceled the suspension and restored to duty an officer who had turned an illegal immigrant over to ICE.
The brother of a man who was killed by a Dallas police officer in his own home has forgiven and hugged her in the courtroom where she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
President Trump insisted Wednesday that the government must catch the “spy” in his administration who provided an anonymous whistleblower with what he calls false information about his conversation with Ukraine’s president that has led to a rapid impeachment inquiry.
