Officers in law enforcement agencies across the country have joined private hate groups on Facebook, participating in the spread of extremism.

Before the mass adoption of the car, most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.

As the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign heats up, candidates are rolling out various government spending proposals. How would policies like free college tuition be implemented? Would the government pay the bursar directly? Would it send a check to students? Would it create a new tax credit?

An activist in Poland has been detained after police found posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a halo consisting of the colours of the LGBTQ flag. The activist, Elżbieta Podleśna, confirmed on Facebook in the early hours of Monday morning that she had been arrested, and her phone confiscated.

Facial recognition technology has misidentified members of the public as potential criminals in 96 per cent of scans so far in London, new figures reveal. The Metropolitan Police said the controversial software could help it hunt down wanted offenders and reduce violence, but critics have accused it of wasting public money and violating human rights. The trials have so far cost more than £222,000 in London and are subject to a legal challenge and a separate probe by the Information Commissioner.

Portland just lost a huge chunk of its police presence. On Friday, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts wrote an email to his deputies, stating his concern for their safety. “I will not place you at unnecessary personal and professional risk,” the email read.

Office clerk Stefan Kiszko spent 17 years in prison for the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in Rochdale in northwest England in 1975. Though he had confessed his guilt to the police at the time, evidence later proved he was innocent.

A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come under scrutiny from one force’s ethics committee, who said there were a lot of “unanswered questions” and concerns about potential bias.

French yellow vest protesters set fires along a march route through Paris on Saturday to drive home their message to a government they see as out of touch with the problems of the poor: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn't the only problem France needs to solve.

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A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned. The hackers breached three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Association, a coalition of different chapters across the U.S. promoting federal and law enforcement leadership and training located at the FBI training academy in Quantico, VA.

He took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over an alleged sexual assault. The Met Police said he was arrested for failing to surrender to the court.

A tiny Ohio village was embroiled in controversy after a local police sergeant publicly filed felony charges against the mayor and police chief — and was immediately fired. Villagers were shocked when New Holland police Sgt. Charles “Brad” Mick walked into a village council meeting and announced he had just been fired, mere moments after he handed Mayor Clair Betzko and interim Police Chief David Conrad court summonses accusing them of a forgery scheme.

A Fairfax County judge on Monday ordered the Fairfax County police to stop maintaining a database of photos of vehicle license plates, with the time and location where they were snapped, ruling that “passive use” of data from automated license plate readers on the back of patrol cars violates Virginia privacy law. The ruling followed a related finding by the Virginia Supreme Court last year, meaning the case could affect how long — if at all — Virginia police can keep license plate data.

One DNA-matching company has decided it's going to corner an under-served market: US law enforcement. FamilyTreeDNA -- last seen here opening up its database to the FBI without informing its users first -- is actively pitching its services to law...

A US man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for making a hoax 911 call that led to police shooting an innocent man dead. Tyler Barriss, 26, told emergency services he had fatally shot his father and was holding the rest of his family hostage as part of a "swatting" prank. Swatting is a form of retaliation which involves falsely reporting a crime so that a massive police response - often involving SWAT teams - is sent to a target's home.

“There is no plausible explanation other than racial bias,” said Andrew D. Freeman of Brown, Goldstein & Levy, an attorney for James. The law firm refers to the incident as "lawyering while black" in a press release.

A raised middle finger is a form of free speech, a court has ruled, allowing a lawsuit by a driver who made the vulgar gesture at a police officer. The decision came from the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week, but it started with a spirited exchange in June 2017, when a woman gave the middle-finger salute to a police officer who had just written her a ticket.

The FBI -- late to the party -- proudly announces it's the first guest to arrive. The FBI has launched the nation's "first and only" database that collects information about police-involved shootings and use-of-force incidents.

Jussie Smollett has been arrested and placed in custody, according to law-enforcement officials. The Empire actor was charged with felony disorderly conduct Wednesday evening for allegedly filing a false police report claiming he was attacked by two men in Chicago last month. Anthony Guglielmi, the chief communications officer of the Chicago Police Department, confirmed Smollett’s arrest via Twitter and the Associated Press reported that he turned himself in.