A large police operation took place in Brooklyn near the Verazzno Bridge on Sunday night. Eyewitnesses report seeing over a dozen officers in swat gear armed with rifles and had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway. Multiple people were in custody. Senator Marty Golden said on Instagram that the arrests are due to a “possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea.”

An explosive device detonated during a police attempt to disarm it in Elizabeth, New Jersey early Monday, in the third New York City area incident involving what appear to be improvised bombs. A call came into Elizabeth authorities at 8:47 p.m. after two men found a suspicious backpack in a garbage can, mayor Chris Bollwage said in a press conference. The men took it around the corner thinking there was something of value in it, but notified police when they saw wires and a pipe inside the bag. Police immediately brought in the bomb squad.

Police say the gun was discovered at Terminal 3, where Coolio’s bodyguard tried to smuggle the weapon through security. Both the rapper and the bodyguard were taken into custody; however, Coolio’s bodyguard was soon released with no charges, after the police was able to determine that the owner of stolen firearm was in fact Coolio. "Upon arrival airport police immediately took possession of a carry-on bag in the X-ray screening belt," airport police Officer Alicia Hernandez told the Los Angeles Daily News.

The off-duty police officer who confronted and fatally shot the man suspected of stabbing nine people in a St. Cloud mall was roundly praised for split-second heroics that likely saved others from harm. As a onetime police chief early this decade in nearby Albany, Jason F. Falconer was careful Sunday afternoon not to impede the nascent investigation into the attack Saturday night at Crossroads Center, violence that federal authorities are treating as a potential act of terrorism.

Tampa police officers wearing body cameras did not use physical force as often as officers who did not wear them, according to the findings of a new study conducted by the University of South Florida. In 2015, the Tampa Police Department equipped 60 officers with body cameras. USF examined and compared their activity with 60 officers who did not wear body cameras for the course of a year. The results of the two-year study found that officers who wore body cameras reduced use of force by 8.2 percent.

Andrew Mossberg was taking a stroll in Miami Beach one summer evening three years ago when he thought he saw a man mugging a woman outside a West Avenue condominium. So the diminutive Mossberg — just a smidgen over five feet and weighing 120 pounds — called police and tried to intervene. For his benevolence, Mossberg said he was punched in the gut and judo-kicked twice in the head — by a Miami Beach cop.

Three Phoenix police officers have resigned after a man alleged they forced him to eat marijuana found in his vehicle to avoid going to jail, Chief Joseph Yahner said Thursday. A fourth officer, Jeff Farrior, was demoted from lieutenant to sergeant for being aware of last week’s incident and not taking appropriate action, Yahner told reporters. “Their actions are appalling and unacceptable. This conduct is against everything that we stand for,” Yahner said.

A thug has been filmed kicking a elderly man to the ground in a sickening attack in London. The victim, a man with grey hair and a beard who appears to be homeless, looks into the camera while being surrounded by a group of youths. The elderly man is then sent crashing to the floor after being kicked in the side by a young man. He hits his head on the pavement in the apparently unprovoked attack.

Monica Speaks wants answers about her father’s death 30 years ago. But like dozens of other Iowans this year, she was shut down by the Iowa Department of Public Safety. The reason is a controversial and relatively recent interpretation of a 45-year-old Iowa law in which the department claims any document created or collected as part of an investigation can be considered confidential forever.

After the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, descended into chaos with rioters looting, damaging property, injuring police officers and journalists, and even shooting a civilian. As the madness continued, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department began releasing photographs of the rioters on its official Twitter account...

After finding out his teenage sister had been killed in a car accident over the weekend, Mark Ross said he wanted to be with his mother as soon as he could. Without a vehicle, Ross said that he convinced someone he knew to drive, and jumped in the man's car just after 3 a.m. Sunday in Indiana.  Ross wrote in a Facebook post that they were speeding through Ohio, bound for Detroit, when the lights flashed behind them.

New research put out by the Associated Press (AP) has revealed systemic police misuse of access to confidential and private information. The AP sent FOIA requests to police departments across the United States to find out about police misuse of state and federal databases and released a report with the findings earlier this week. Police in jurisdictions across the country were found to routinely misuse and abuse their access to state driver databases and federal criminal history databases.

A two-month undercover operation involving a Thurmont police officer posing as a Burger King employee netted 5 grams of marijuana and two morphine pills, according to police. The operation began in August as Officer Nicole Fair was still adjusting to the department, having started July 1. Fair’s tenure coincided with complaints about drugs being sold out of the Burger King on North Church Street. Her supervisors quickly realized the opportunity to run an undercover operation, Chief Greg Eyler said.

Cameras worn on police uniforms have been lauded as a possible solution to many of the problems facing officers in the line of duty, from violence against law enforcement to the unnecessary use of force. The US Department of Justice recently announced a plan to spend $20 million on body cameras for cops in 32 states. The cameras are controversial, as all surveillance technology tends to be. And until recently, there’s been little hard evidence about how effective body cameras actually are.

When the clerk called Willie Mae Swansey's case in a crowded courtroom last February, the 72-year-old approached the judge slowly, supporting herself with a four-pronged cane. It had been a busy afternoon in the Daley Center's civil forfeiture courtroom, with more than a dozen quick hearings and a pair of trials preceding her own. The crush of defense lawyers and hopeful claimants had thinned by the time Swansey stepped up to the bench. She steadied herself beside a prosecutor and stood with a stately straightening of her back.

A woman who witnessed the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald said in a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago that she was detained by police after the shooting and pressured to change her story, which she had earlier told a freelance photojournalist on video obtained by NBC Chicago. Alma Benitez filed suit this week, claiming she was illegally detained at a police station shortly after the shooting, her phone confiscated as she was told by officers that her account of what happened in the October 2014 shooting was wrong.

The New York Police Department, the largest city police force in the United States, has agreed to buy 1,000 body cameras, officials confirmed. The move is part of a nationwide push to equip more police with the technology in response to a national outcry over the deaths of unarmed — often African American — men at the hands of police in disputed circumstances.

The teen shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers after a pursuit was identified by family and friends Saturday night. Carnell Snell Jr., 18, was fatally shot around 1:40 p.m. on 107th Street and Western Avenue following a pursuit of a stolen vehicle. Officers decided to pursue the vehicle after noticing paper license plates, officials said. Police attempted to pull the car over but the driver allegedly fled.

Support for marijuana legalization might be at a national all-time high, but not a single minute passes in U.S. without a cop pinching someone for weed. Crime data released by the FBI shows that police made 643,000 marijuana-related arrests in 2015, the lowest it's been in 20 years. That figure still translates to a pot bust every 49 seconds. And nearly nine out of ten of these arrests were for possession as opposed to sale or cultivation, the data shows.

We now know the names of the two Long Beach police officers placed on paid leave while the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office investigates the death of a child. Glenn Grannon, with the sheriff’s department, said Clark Ladner and Cassie Barker were placed on administrative leave after 3-year-old Cheyenne Hyer died Friday. Sheriff Ricky Adam confirmed Barker is Cheyenne’s mother. Investigators believe Cassie Barker was visiting another officer at his home when she left her child in a patrol car for around four hours. Ladner's neighbors say they're stunned.