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November 17, 2018

Pakistani Taliban kill former police officer in Quetta

Pakistani police say gunmen have shot dead a former senior police officer in a drive-by shooting in the southwestern city of ...

November 17, 2018

New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing

Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called "Dynamite Hill" because the Ku ...

November 17, 2018

Afghan official: Taliban target police checkpoint, killing 5

An Afghan official says that at least five police officers have been killed when their checkpoint came under attack by ...

November 17, 2018

Baltimore mayor picks Fort Worth chief as next top cop

Baltimore's mayor announced Friday she has chosen a Texas police chief as her nominee to lead the city's troubled force, ...

November 16, 2018

NYPD shakes up sex crime unit after Weinstein, staffing woes

The New York City Police Department is shaking up its embattled special victims division, where a top detective has twice ...

November 15, 2018

Rolling in toilet paper: Sheriff buys 24K extra rolls of TP

Officials in an Alabama county have a financial mess to wipe up after the sheriff's department mistakenly ordered 24,000 ...

November 15, 2018

Afghan officials: Taliban kill 30 policemen in west province

A blistering overnight attack by the Taliban on an Afghan police outpost in western Farah province killed 30 policemen, ...

November 15, 2018

Study: Weak reporting on missing, murdered Native women

Numerous police departments nationwide are not adequately identifying or reporting cases of missing and murdered indigenous ...

November 15, 2018

Witness didn't hear officer order security guard to drop gun

A security guard who was working at a suburban Chicago bar when a black co-worker was fatally shot by a white police officer ...

November 13, 2018

Death of black security guard brings call for investigation

A suburban Chicago alderman called Tuesday for prosecutors to investigate the fatal shooting of a black security guard by a ...

November 13, 2018

Man who made hoax call in deadly 'swatting' pleads guilty

A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday to making a hoax call that ultimately led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man ...

November 13, 2018

The Latest: Suspect in fatal Kansas hoax call pleads guilty

The Latest on a California man accused of making a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man (all times local): ...

November 13, 2018

Slovak president condemns questioning of protest organizers

Slovakia's president has condemned a move by the country's police, which started questioning the organizers of recent massive ...

November 13, 2018

FBI report shows 17 percent spike in hate crimes in 2017

Hate crimes across the United States spiked 17 percent in 2017 — marking a rise for the third straight year — with a 37 ...

November 13, 2018

Lawsuit alleges security guard shot while holding suspect

A police officer fatally shot an armed security guard who was wearing a hat with "security" emblazoned across the front and ...

November 10, 2018

Police clash with Catalan separatists in Barcelona

Police in Barcelona have briefly clashed with Catalan separatists who are protesting a rally by Spain's national police ...

November 10, 2018

Australia police: Melbourne attacker also planned explosion

Australia police said Saturday a man who fatally stabbed another and injured two in what they described as an Islamic ...

November 09, 2018

Kenya launches internal police probe to help reform force

Kenya's internal security minister Friday launched a police internal affairs unit to investigate allegations of abuses in the ...

November 09, 2018

The Latest: IS claims responsibility for Australia attack

The Latest on a knife attack in Melbourne (all times local): 10:45 p.m. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility ...