It was a violent crash between a speeding police squad car and an SUV caught on dramatic surveillance video. The SUV driver, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from the vehicle and landed in the middle of the street. The SUV driver and his wife who was a passenger are outraged because the officer … Read more
Heart-stopping footage shows a speeding police cruiser slamming into an SUV, leaving its driver disabled. An Inside Edition investigation, which will air in full Thursday, discovered Officer Christopher Ferguson was not responding to an emergency when he crashed into the vehicle in Smithville, Tenn., in 2017. He was going 61 mph in a 40-mile zone, … Read more
Responding to myriad tales of abuses, like many other states, Missouri has reformed its asset forfeiture laws to require a criminal conviction before cash or property is seized and, in a bid to prevent “policing for profit,” to require that money seized by state law enforcement agencies goes solely to the state’s schools. Under Missouri … Read more
WOLCOTT, CT – An investigation revealed an off-duty Connecticut state trooper was intoxicated and speeding at the time of a deadly crash in Wolcott. In February, Trooper Danielle Miller, 27, was killed in a head-on crash on Route 69 in town. She was off-duty at the time. “It’s a very tragic occurrence for everyone involved. … Read more
DRESSER, Wis. – More than a million people will be arrested for drunk driving in the U.S. this year—and Ryan Haass will not be one of them. Haass is the police chief in the Village of Dresser, a small town in northwestern Wisconsin with a population of 895. On Sunday, Feb. 11 after leaving the … Read more
A Los Angeles Police Department officer suspected in an off-duty DUI crash on the 605 Freeway in Whittier last year was charged with murder in the deaths of three family members, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Edgar Verduzco, 27, was initially arrested following the deadly Sept. 26, 2017 crash but was … Read more
Illinois – Police in McHenry County will be out for blood with drivers who refuse to take breath tests for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. And the practice of officers immediately seeking blood draws from those who won’t submit to a breath screen appears to be spreading, with Lake County … Read more
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – Video sheds light on the night an officer got a ride home and not a DWI. The video shows deputies telling a State Police officer she was under arrest for drunk driving, but 10 minutes later they gave her a ride home instead. A 911 call came in just after 7 p.m. … Read more
Most New Yorkers would agree that fighting a parking ticket is generally a losing battle. For the past eight months, Manhattan residents Bob and Sandi Durell have been trying to prove their innocence, without success. Their ordeal began when they received a notice in the mail from the Department of Finance Parking Violations Bureau saying … Read more
A San Francisco police officer known as the “Hot Cop of the Castro” was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in county jail for a hit-and-run that injured two men in 2015 in the city’s North Beach neighborhood. In addition to the jail term, Judge Carol Yaggy sentenced Christopher Kohrs to three years’ probation and various … Read more
A Florida sheriff’s lieutenant was arrested and charged with driving under the influence Sunday after deputies found her driving her vehicle in reverse and honking her horn. The Tampa Bay Times, citing the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, reported that 41-year-old Christi Ruhtz was fired from the department after her arrest. The paper reported that Ruhtz … Read more
An NYPD cadet crashed into a ambulance Sunday after taking a drunken, wrong-way drive in the Bronx, then tried to flee the scene, cops said. Olano Gayle, 21, was giving his friends a ride in a 2006 Audi when he drove the wrong way down the Grand Concourse in the South Bronx about 2:30 a.m. … Read more