Trust is fundamental to the sustainability of any society. Nowhere is that sentiment more pertinent than with the police. In Detroit, the trust between the police department and a young woman in the city was eviscerated last month. As WXYZ reports, on Saturday, Sept. 15, a mother (who did not want her identity disclosed) arrived at her daughter’s home on Detroit's west side and saw her being attacked by her boyfriend. The mother immediately dialed 911 to call for help, but no one came. She called multiple times — but the police never showed up.

A Houston police officer, in full uniform, was caught on video at a Drake concert apparently taking photos of a woman’s backside as she stood in front of him, unaware of what was going on behind her. Twitter user @HeyChalice caught the moment on video and uploaded it to Twitter Tuesday night during Drake & Migos’ Houston tour stop. The concert was held at the Toyota Center.

A jury has found Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke, who was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery, sat impassively, his shoulders slumped, as the verdicts were read. Van Dyke was found not guilty of official misconduct.

Police arrested American 3D-printed gun advocate Cody Wilson in Taipei City’s Wanhua District Friday evening, just a day after it became known he was wanted in Texas for paying a 16-year-old girl for sex, the Apple Daily reported. His arrest and expected transfer, first to the Criminal Investigation Bureau and later to the National Immigration Agency, brings to a quick close a case which had police hurrying to check out his movements since his arrival in Taiwan on September 6.

Botham Shem Jean analyzed risk for a living at a global auditing firm. For someone in his line of work, the evening was shaping up to be as risk-free as it gets: Alone, in his one-bedroom apartment one block from the Dallas Police Department headquarters. Fresh from work, he had texted his sister his evening plans: Watching a football game on TV, the Eagles versus the Falcons. He texted a friend, apologizing for not going out with her the weekend before.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Dallas police headquarters Monday evening to demand justice for Botham Jean, the 26-year-old who was shot inside his own apartment last Thursday by off-duty police officer Amber Guyger. Guyger has been charged with manslaughter, but demonstrators say that's not enough. Her case now heads to a grand jury where her charges could be bumped up to murder, reports CBS News' Omar Villafranca.

Cincinnati police investigators said an officer who deployed a Taser to stop an 11-year-old girl from shoplifting violated the department's use of force policy, but also found problems with his telling the girl: "You know, sweetheart, this is why there’s no grocery stores in the black community.” The comment was caught on Officer Kevin Brown's body camera and is the second time the officer is accused of making inappropriate comments...

Two women were found dead in an apartment across the street from the University of Washington campus, Seattle police said. Police said late Tuesday there were no suspects outstanding and no threat to the public, but declined to otherwise categorize the incident. Detectives said the case was in the hands of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Dramatic video from a police officer's body camera captures the rescue of a North Texas family from their burning home.

An old building that used to house a KFC restaurant in Arizona has a tunnel that stretches all the way to Mexico, according to Homeland Security Investigations. The tunnel was discovered after police pulled over the former building owner Ivan Lopez. During the traffic stop, a canine unit led police to search through two toolboxes found in Lopez's vehicle.

An Argentine police officer is being hailed a hero after breastfeeding a malnourished baby while on duty at a children’s hospital. Celeste Jaqueline Ayala was working her shift at Sor Maria Ludovica Hospital in Buenos Aires when she heard a baby crying incessantly. Ayala, who is the mother of a newborn baby, asked hospital staff if she could hold and comfort the crying baby.

The militarization of America's police has been hotly debated in recent years. Critics argue that effectively turning cops into soldiers risks alienating them from the communities they supposedly serve. New research provides evidence supporting such warnings. It finds the use of SWAT teams—perhaps the most common and visible form of militarized policing—neither reduces crime nor enhances public safety.

A police department in Georgia is defending its decision to tase a 87-year-old grandmother who was cutting dandelion greens outside her house. Martha Al-Bishara was tased outside her Chatsworth home when she was encountered by a local police officer as she was cutting leaves with a knife last week. After noticing the tool, the officer asked the woman to drop the knife and when she didn’t, he tased her.

Newly released surveillance video shows the moment a police officer in Nashville, Tennessee, fatally shot a man in the back as he ran away — leading to questions about the use of deadly force and calls for the police chief's resignation. The family of Daniel Hambrick, a 25-year-old black man, held a news conference Wednesday following the video's release to call attention to perceived racial bias in policing and demand that the officer involved be fired.

An Arkansas police officer has been fired after he was recorded telling two black men, "You don't belong in my city." England Police Chief Danna Powell said in a news release Wednesday that Michael Moore had been fired from the department. Moore was fired after an internal investigation that began about two weeks earlier over a viral video. The video, which was recorded around July 21, shows a group of young black men interacting with Moore.

An incident involving a Cincinnati police officer using a Taser on an 11-year-old girl is under investigation. This happened Monday at the Kroger on Kenard Avenue in Spring Grove Village. Cincinnati Police say the officer involved was working a detail and was investigating a group of girls who were allegedly shoplifting from the store. Police said the officer approached one girl who ignored the officer and walked away, ignoring commands to stop.

A police officer's bodycam filmed the moment he and a colleague pulled a man from a burning car. The vehicle erupted into flames after after it hit a metal utility pole, police in Atlanta, Georgia said. Bystanders tried to pull the people out of the wreck but weren't able to free the passenger in the front.

The Detroit Police Department has yet to identify the officer who had been with the department for 18 years.

A former Georgia police officer will spend nine years in prison after an undercover investigation found him corroborating with criminals to line his own pockets. Charles Hubbard, a former Auburn, Georgia police officer, was sentenced to federal prison time due to his roles in conspiracies to commit extortion, traffic drugs and commit robbery over the course of seven years.

All members of the Blandford Police Department have resigned effective immediately, according to the interim chief of police. The Blandford Police Department’s Facebook page is advising all residents to call 911 for police, fire or medical emergencies. The Russell State Police Barracks can be contacted for other police services until further notice at (413) 862-3312.