Law enforcement

The Miami-Dade Police officer who got physical with Dolphins player Tyreek Hill during a traffic stop has been repeatedly disciplined and suspended after other people complained he became aggressive with them.

Bodycam footage shows an Oklahoma City police officer and bystander rescuing a sleeping man who rolled off a bridge.

A 63-year-old driver who was experiencing a medical emergency  while behind the wheel was saved during a daring rescue in Detroit, Michigan, this week.

The Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) hosted its very first law enforcement recruitment fair on Friday. “Studies have shown there has been a decrease in applicants within the law enforcement profession,” Marc Fasano, division director of field services with DESPP, said. “That’s always been cyclical, and you’ll have different times where the numbers will go...

Authorities say a U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been arrested for ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties. Border agent Shane Millan was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Prosecutors say the 53-year-old Millan...

In the 10 years since Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality, documented police killings in the United States have continued at virtually the same rate, an NBC News analysis of the Mapping Police Violence database found.  

The U.S. Marshals Service found 200 critically missing children across the nation over a six-week effort called “Operation We Will Find You 2.”

Four years ago, protests erupted across the country after millions of Americans watched the chilling video of the murder of George Floyd — a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. In the aftermath, Chauvin was convicted of murder and calls for a nationwide reckoning on issues related to racism and police…

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.

Four police officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.

U.S. police departments have reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd.

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters.

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police...

Ohio State Highway Patrol body cam video shows a local K9 that was released by his handler and mauled an unarmed Black man after the man had surrendered to authorities.

Advances in technology allow callers to mask their voice, phone number or IP address (also called “spoofing”), or make their false 911 calls sound more credible.