The NSPCC is urging parents to talk to their children about the risks of sharing nude pictures with others. The call comes as new figures show more than 2,000 under-18s have been reported to police over the past three years for crimes linked to indecent images. According to the children's charity, the increase in offences among youngsters may have partly been fuelled by "sexting", where someone sends an explicit photograph of themselves to another person on social media.

The last time Beverly Smith had a full conversation with her son, Alonzo, was October 30, 2015. It was a Friday, and even though the weekend had just begun, he was thrilled about the upcoming week. The 27-year-old, who worked with special needs students, had booked several gigs as a part-time portrait model. When she received the news, Beverly couldn’t have known it would be the last time she’d share a joyful moment with her youngest child.

An activist who snapped photos of a Philadelphia police officer with apparently Nazi-inspired tattoos on his arms has filed a complaint against him, saying the tattoos violate the department’s code of conduct and questioning his continued employment. Evan Parish Matthews, who took the photos of Officer Ian Hans Lichtermann at the Black Resistance March on July 26 during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, posted the images on Facebook Wednesday night, along with the text of a complaint he said was filed against the officer.

The cop wanted her car keys. Kelli Peters handed them over. She told herself she had nothing to fear, that all he’d find inside her PT Cruiser was beach sand, dog hair, maybe one of her daughter’s toys. They were outside Plaza Vista School in Irvine, where she had watched her daughter go from kindergarten to fifth grade, where any minute now the girl would be getting out of class to look for her. Parents had entrusted their own kids to Peters for years; she was the school’s PTA president and the heart of its after-school program.

A woman who was sexually abused from the age of eight has seen her attacker put behind bars 15 years later, after she became a police officer and secretly taped his confession. Erlis Joseph Chaisson, 47, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child by contact in Texas in August. He has been given a life sentence and two separate seven year sentences for the indecency convictions, to be served consecutively. He will not be eligible for parole for 42 years.

An abandoned car containing gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday night, a French police official said. The owner of the Peugeot 607, who was arrested on Tuesday, is on a watchlist of people suspected of religious radicalism, the official said. Another person is reported to have been detained by police. The police official said it was believed the owner of the car may have been trying to carry out a "test run" for a terror attack.

A Mississippi police chief killed himself soon after learning that authorities were investigating allegations he illegally sold city-owned firearms, including an assault rifle, a sheriff's official said Friday. Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass told The Associated Press that Bay St. Louis police chief Mike DeNardo illegally sold one city-owned assault rifle, and that authorities were looking into allegations that other city-owned weapons were sold as well.

A total of 141 policemen are facing possible dismissal from the service after testing positive for drug use. Chief Superintendent Leo Angelo Leuterio, head of the PNP-Internal Affairs Service (IAS), said charges have been filed against the 141 policemen. "They are now charged with grave misconduct by violation of the anti-drugs law," Leuterio said. He added that 57 of the policemen are already undergoing summary dismissal proceedings.

A former female Muslim police officer has accused London’s Metropolitan police of being more worried about “political correctness” than tackling the extremist views of some Muslim officers because they fear being branded “Islamophobic.” Speaking to the Sunday Times, Javaria Saeed, who worked for the Metropolitan police’s counterterrorism department, took exception to comments made by a Muslim constable who said that female genital mutilation was a “clean an honorable practice” that “shouldn’t be criminalized.”

A special grand jury will be impaneled to investigate a possible cover-up by Chicago police in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald at the request of a special prosecutor appointed in July to investigate the matter. Patricia Brown Holmes, the special prosecutor, said Monday she has enough evidence to present to a grand jury as she made her request that one be convened.

In Miami-Dade County, cities can't spend money on public transportation, affordable housing, or sea-level-rise preparedness without residents stomping their feet and flooding commission meetings to protest. But ask for six figures' worth of controversial, military-grade police equipment, and South Florida cities will pretty much just hand you a blank check. After City of Miami Police used the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando to rush-order $300,000 worth of military-grade armor last month, that same police department now says it needs to spend $101,332.64 on 148 AR-15-style Bushmaster rifles, 148 rifle scopes, and other supplies.

Boston cops on Monday reluctantly launched a six-month body cam pilot program after a state judge told the police union that making the decision to wear them "is a non-arbitrable management right." As many as 100 of the city's 1,500 patrol officers are being assigned a camera after a judge set aside the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's (BPPA) edict that its union members not wear them until the demand is included in the union membership's contract.

A police officer in West Virginia is out of a job because he refused to shoot an armed man who demanded police to shoot him, according to a story published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Sunday. On May 6, then Weirton Police Officer Stephen Mader was called out to a domestic dispute where 23-year-old Ronald D. “R.J.” Williams Jr. was holding a gun. According to an account given to the newspaper, Williams told Mader to shoot him.

Two Los Angeles police officers have been charged with covering up a crash involving a drunk driver and later filing a false police report, prosecutors say. Following an internal affairs inquiry, Officers Rene Ponce and Irene Gomez were charged Sept. 6 with a felony count each of filing a false report and conspiracy to commit an act injurious to the public, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Both pleaded not guilty last week.

Sandra Bland's family has reached a $1.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, the family's attorney said Thursday. The settlement includes compensation for Bland's death in custody as well as several changes to jail procedures in Waller County, Texas. Bland was found dead in her jail cell three days after she was arrested for failing to use her turn signal in July 2015.

Former Orlando police officer Peter Delio caused great bodily harm to a man he kneed in a police holding cell two years ago, rupturing his spleen, an Orange County jury said Wednesday. Delio, 32, was found guilty of felony battery. He had admitted to striking Robert Liese, 42, with his knee in the holding cell — a blow that was caught on surveillance video — but claimed the hit was not what caused Liese's spleen to rupture. A felony conviction prevents Delio from working as a law enforcement officer in Florida.

While the SFPD continues its deployment of officer-worn body-cameras, the Oakland Police Department has had them for some time. Since 2009, to be precise. However, according to the Chronicle, that roughly seven-year headstart doesn't mean OPD has the system down pat. In fact, a recent murder trial has reveled that the department accidentally deleted 25 percent of all the footage collected since the program began. Oops.

Last week, on September 8th, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department successfully used a remote-controlled bomb squad robot to snatch a rifle out from under an armed and violent suspect. The standoff between the suspect and an armored SWAT team lasted for more than six hours, but concluded without a single shot fired. "The robot was a game changer here," Capt. Jack Ewell told the LA Times. "We didn't have to risk a deputy's life to disarm a very violent man."

The lights dimmed as nearly 20 Chicago police officers turned their attention to the dashboard camera video playing in the training room where they had gathered for a new, mandatory course on the proper use of deadly force. In the footage, an agitated man wielded a knife as he moved down a street with a quick step, ignoring the blinking lights of police vehicles that had surrounded him.

Footage of a police officer smashing the windscreen of a car before cutting a hole through it with a knife - in what the driver claims is a case of mistaken identity - is being investigated. The video taken in Gospel Oak yesterday afternoon by the vehicle's occupant is now being looked into by the Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards. It shows the policeman repeatedly yelling: “Get out the car.” He starts by hammering on the driver’s window before starting to smash the windscreen, after being told over the radio the driver is not qualified to drive.