CHICAGO (AP) — Police body camera footage released Tuesday shows a federal immigration agent who fatally shot a Mexican immigrant describing his own injuries during a vehicle pursuit as “nothing major,” a contrast from the Trump administration’s characterization of events in suburban Chicago earlier this month. The Department of Homeland Security has said the officer […]

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials. The ban is a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, where […]

The Alberta government has chosen not to renew a regulation banning the practice of “carding” by police officers, but the province says the practice is still prohibited under other laws. The provincial regulation enforcing the ban was due for renewal this past summer, but a government letter to the Alberta Association of Police Governance and […]

The Peterborough Police Service will be introducing a six-month pilot program of body-worn cameras possibly beginning as soon as Oct. 1,  Chief Stu Betts told the police service board Tuesday afternoon. Betts  says the service will obtain eight body-worn cameras to be deployed as  early as next month, but says full implementation will have to […]

About one-third of the Vancouver Police Department’s frontline officers hadn’t completed training on decriminalization when the pilot project came into force and small amounts of drugs became legal in January 2023. B.C.’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General had put together a webinar called “Decriminalization in B.C.: Shifting to a […]

An investigation report from the ongoing battle between the Grand Erie District School Board and a barred trustee paints a picture of “tension, miscommunication and missed communication.”  After the Divisional Court sided with Carol Ann Sloat earlier this month, the school board has released what it’s calling the “Call the Police” report — one of […]

Grace United Church and Regeneration Outreach say they want to work with the city on “safety for everyone” around their 156 Main St. N. address. The church and the outreach group that operate out of it were responding to an unsigned open letter calling for Regeneration’s relocation from the site. The letter — circulated to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s former interim police commissioner is suing Mayor Eric Adams and his top deputies, accusing them of operating the NYPD as a “criminal enterprise.” In a federal racketeering lawsuit filed Wednesday, the ex-commissioner, Thomas Donlon, alleges Adams and his inner circle showered unqualified loyalists with promotions, buried allegations of […]

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas unveiled a fleet of armed drones Tuesday that they say will better position them against the heavily armed drug cartels vying for control of their border with Guatemala. Frequently outgunned by cartels with heavy guns and increasingly with drones that drop improvised explosive […]

Police in British Columbia believe they have solved a decades-long mystery by identifying a suspect known as “Mr. X” who is thought to have helped test a bomb before the 1985 Air India terror attack. But they say the suspect died before facing charges, and police will not be releasing his name. The statement from […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Nashville police lieutenant was arrested Tuesday on charges of theft, burglary and official misconduct after he was accused of taking case files, including records from a school shooting where three 9-year-olds and three adult staff were killed. In announcing the arrest of Garet Davidson, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation […]

The Vancouver Police Board must look into an officer’s allegation that arrest quotas have been issued as part of Mayor Ken Sim’s “Task Force Barrage” initiative in the Downtown Eastside, British Columbia’s police watchdog says. An email from the anonymous whistleblower is on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the board along with a corresponding […]