Almost 46 years after Linda Ann O’Keefe’s lifeless body was found among the cattails in Newport Beach’s Back Bay, police announced this week that a suspect was arrested in connection with the death of the girl. The prosecutors of Orange County have charged the murder of James Alan Neal, 72, of Colorado. He faces a minimum of life in jail without parole if convicted.

Motor City Muckraker and Deadline Detroit collaborated on a series about Detroit's declining police services. This is part 1.

A police IT system is "unfit for purpose" and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. Nine forces in England and Wales use Athena, which promised to speed up the detection of crimes. But officers say it regularly crashes and is overly complicated, meaning some cases are not built in time or dropped. Developers Northgate Public Services apologised for problems "in small areas", which it says it is fixing.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals 'for calm and restraint' while calling for government probe into deaths.

The New York police officer hailed for using nonlethal force to fend off a gang of men in a confrontation shown on a viral video said Thursday that pulling a gun should not always be an officer's first option. "Life is precious, and going to that weapon is not necessarily the first thing we should be thinking about," Officer Syed Ali said to reporters Thursday about his management of a tense confrontation Sunday night.

An Ohio police officer stopped a teen driver going 100 miles per hour in a 65 zone, and then penned an emotional letter to the 18-year-old, warning him about the dangers of reckless driving. The North Ridgeville Police Department shared the officer's note on Facebook and it quickly gained widespread attention. The officer was brutally honest, and many people praised him for his powerful words to the young man.

Heartwarming stories on the Internet are a rare commodity, but that's exactly what we have today, courtesy of a few French police officers. Reported on by French outlet BFMTV (translated via ResetEra), Paris police recovered some stolen video game consoles, and apparently couldn't locate the original owners. Thus, the systems were set to be destroyed, until Paris police decided rather than destroy them, they would donate them.

The sound of motorcycles rumbling through the nation's capital has been a staple of Memorial Day weekend since 1988.

Apparently, sitting on the floor in Brooklyn is against the law and, if you've got a baby in your arms, watch out! Oh, and she's black.

A police department in Washington state made a lot of people laugh this week with a back and forth Facebook exchange with a criminal who had a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly violating his probation. Anthony Akers, 38, had a warrant issued after he failed to comply with the terms of his probation, Richland Police Sgt. Drew Florence told BuzzFeed News. Florence didn't immediately have the information on Akers' original crime.

There was no “maybe.”

The morning of September 22, 2017, Cristopher Precopia went to work at a lumber yard in Georgetown. By the end of the day, he was in jail facing 99 years in prison. But he didn't know why. Why had police come to his work and arrested him? Why was he being accused of these horrible crimes? Who was accusing him? She said he broke into her home in Temple. She said he sliced an "X" into her chest with a box cutter.

Tyler Barriss, 26, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making a false report resulting in a death, after he placed a hoax call late last year that resulted in police fatally shooting an unarmed man in Wichita, Kan. Barriss pleaded guilty to a total of 51 charges as part of a plea deal. He will be sentenced in January, The Associated Press reports.

Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy and in-depth piece on how U.S. law enforcement has willfully ignored the threat of white supremacist extremism for decades. The author, Janet Reitman, takes an ostensibly deep dive into how law enforcement — particularly federal agencies — has neglected the growth of the violent far right, in part owing to Republican political agenda setting. For a story framed around a “blind spot,” though, the piece itself is hobbled by an egregious case of sightlessness.

A tool that identifies false robbery reports is being rolled out across Spain

The kangaroo was moments from death when two police officers jumped into the sea to rescue it.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued the San Bernardino County sheriff over what the advocacy group says is a failure of the law enforcement agency to adequately release public records relating to its use of cell-site simulators, or "stingrays." The lawsuit, Electronic Frontier Foundation v. County of San Bernardino et al., which was filed in county court on Tuesday, explains how a 2015 state law requires that law enforcement agencies in most cases seek a warrant to use the surveillance devices. Prior to the law's passage...

Hamdia Ahmed said she felt the Dunkin' employee was discriminating against her and her family for speaking Somali

The Columbus, Ohio, Police Department has released bodycam footage from a police officer who got a call about two young black men with a gun. When Officer Peter Casuccio arrived at the scene, he found an 11-year-old and 13-year-old boy with a realistic BB gun. Casuccio had an tense exchange with the boys about the dangers of carrying a gun, saying he could've killed them.

The bodies of 11 infants were found in the ceiling of a former funeral home on Detroit's east side Friday evening, according to Detroit Police. Police say the bodies were stuffed in bags. Officers also found a small coffin containing three more bags. They are at the scene with cadaver dogs searching for more bodies. The Cantrell Funeral Home was shut down earlier this year due to several violations and "deplorable, unsanitary conditions."