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In a widening investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department’s cadet program, Chief Charlie Beck on Sunday announced he has suspended training for cadets at the 77th Street Division and Pacific Division, where three cadets arrested on suspicion of stealing police cruisers were based. The move is part of a “top-to-bottom” review of the citywide … Read more

A Layton City Police officer has resigned after posting an offensive meme on a prominent member of the NAACP’s Facebook page. The Layton City Police Department said in a statement released Friday that the employee wrote a response on one of Bishop Talbert Swan’s posts “consisting of a meme, adding language that was clearly in … Read more

Police brutality and misconduct lawsuits are a point of growing contention for many involved in the political arena. Obviously, victims of police abuse deserve to be compensated for their damages. The problem is that it isn’t the police departments or the at-fault officers themselves that are monetarily held accountable in a misconduct lawsuit. It is … Read more

Video shows the arrest of an officer with the Las Vegas Police Department. Officer Devin Adkins is on paid leave after a bartender thought he had too much to drink, cut him off and then he got behind the wheel. However, Officer Adkins said he wasn’t drunk. “It was just a whole weird situation,” he … Read more

Official Police Business is a column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology and the way it’s changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons. Sign up to receive OPB in your email at officialpolicebusiness.com, or check for it here at The Verge. Late … Read more

Pennsylvania has some of the worst civil asset forfeiture laws in the country. At the top of list of perverse incentives? 100% of proceeds go to the agency that seized the property. As a result, all sorts of abusive forfeitures occur. In one case, law enforcement seized a couple’s house because of a single $40 … Read more

A 23-year old black man in Ashtabula, Ohio, was shot by police officers last week after officers responding to a 911 call found two men scuffling in a home, one holding a weapon. The police ordered the man to drop the gun, but when he refused, the officers shot him. After searching the home, police … Read more

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s office confirms an officer-involved shooting took place along Milwaukee’s lakefront Sunday night. A deputy called the shooting into to dispatch around 7:40pm. Cell phone video appears to show an SUV driving up onto a grassy median at Lincoln Memorial Drive and Water Tower Road. A deputy can be seen with a … Read more

When police officers in America’s cities put on their uniforms and grab their weapons before moonlighting in security jobs at nightclubs, hospitals, and ballparks, there’s one piece of equipment they often leave behind — their body camera. That’s because most police agencies that make the cameras mandatory for patrol shifts don’t require or won’t allow … Read more

The San Francisco police department internal affairs division is investigating whether one of its officers violated department policy by telling a group of minorities “we’re going to ship everybody back to their own country” and threatening to involve federal immigration agents. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit captured the officer’s comments on camera last month … Read more

A federal judge in Florida has granted bail to a self-professed neo-Nazi who was taken into custody last month by police who discovered bomb-making materials, weapons and ammo in the his Tampa apartment, reports Fox 13. Federal Judge Thomas McCoun granted bond for 21-year-old Brandon Russell on Friday, stating there was no clear and convincing … Read more