A report out of Lakewood, Washington, about 40 miles (64 Km) south of Seattle, says that a woman recently drove a stolen MINI Cooper Countryman into wet concrete before getting it completely stuck in the building material. She ditched the car but it’s what she took with her that’s truly unbelievable. According to police, witnesses […]
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The policemen crept through the remarkably realistic school hallway, ears trained for imitation gun shots. Sidestepping a child-size dummy, they advanced on the classroom where an actor was screaming. “Shots fired,” the instructor called, urging the officers toward what would in real life be gunfire. “What do we gotta do?” Officers — many of whom […]
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Four luxury vehicles have been stolen from a Manhattan parking garage in a dramatic armed robbery. Local police report that a parking attendant was guarding the luxury vehicles when a group of men pulled a gun on him. The robbers then quickly escaped in a handful of luxury vehicles, including a BMW X7 and a […]
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WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed bipartisan legislation to increase funding for local police departments, after Democrats overcame bitter divisions in their ranks over a package aimed at blunting Republican efforts to portray them as soft on crime ahead of midterm elections. A broad bipartisan majority voted, 360 to 64, in favor of the […]
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Jonathan Caulkins, a drug policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, stressed that even successful supply-side drug enforcement is limited in making a dent in drug epidemics. “It is next to impossible to shut down the supply of an established drug,” Caulkins said. “And fentanyl is harder than most.” Unlike cocaine and heroin, which require farmers […]
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WASHINGTON — Legislation to increase funding for local police departments has hit a snag on Capitol Hill amid deep Democratic divisions, as progressives balk at steering more money to law enforcement and moderates clamor for action that could blunt Republicans’ efforts to paint them as soft on crime ahead of the midterm elections. House Speaker […]
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Police in Four Oaks, North Carolina have arrested two individuals for leading them on a chase that reached 150 mph (241 km/h). Local media reports that the 2022 Dodge Charger was stolen from the Hendrick’s Dodge dealership in Cary at approximately 11 p.m. on Sunday night. It was a high-performance Scat Pack model. The chase […]
Read MoreFormer cop and the Gainesville K-9 unit’s only Black officer Edward Ratliff is suing his former employer. (Getty) After a police dog brutally bit a Black man’s face in July, causing the man to lose an eye, local activists in Gainesville, Florida have been on high alert. “Since the day we all learned about the […]
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Regardless of economic conditions, theft seems to be a scourge that doesn’t go away. Normally though, the police come to the aid of the victims. This time, the police department itself is the victim of catalytic converter theft and it’s asking for assistance to catch the criminals. Catalytic converters can be worth more than $1,000 […]
Read MoreChristian Glass shows officers a heart while sitting in his vehicle, left. An officer trains his weapn on Glass from the hood of the car, right. Photo provided by Glass Family lawyers. Body-camera footage shows Colorado police shot and killed a young man who had called 911 for help after getting his car stuck on […]
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A package exploded inside a campus building at Northeastern University on Tuesday night, injuring an employee and spreading fear among Boston’s many college campuses, the police said. Officers were called just after 7:15 p.m. to Holmes Hall at 39 Leon Street, which houses the writing center on the private university’s campus, for a suspicious package […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Jon Hicks / Getty An Arizona law that interferes with people’s ability to record police interactions has been put on hold. According to the Associated Press, a federal judge issued a preliminary injection preventing the law from taking effect as scheduled on Sept. 24. The American Civil Liberties Union and several […]
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We recently told you about more than a dozen lawsuits filed against Hyundai and Kia alleging that their vehicles are too easy to steal. The spike in thefts is largely attributed to viral social media campaigns on TikTok and other platforms where users are posting videos under the hashtag “Kia Boyz” that expose the vehicles’ […]
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We all make a few bad decisions in our lives, but hopefully they aren’t as stupid as stealing a police car. That should be an obvious no-no, but it didn’t stop 30-year-old Chelsea Horsley from allegedly taking a joyride in a vehicle belonging to the Shelby Police. Citing the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Fox […]
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Normally when a person steals a car they’re the ones who get the lions-share of the blame for the crime itself. For Hyundai and Kia though, that’s no longer the case as state officials, customers, and lawyers are calling on the corporate partners to act. The move follows a wave of vehicle thefts relating to […]
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Jose Flores Ortiz was arrested this week in Brighton, Colorado, after making the mistake of pulling over an off-duty police officer. The suspect is accused of using lights and a silver badge to impersonate a police officer on the road. Speaking to CBS Colorado, Adams County Deputy Gilbert Abdulla said he was driving on I-76 […]
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A string of shootings in Memphis and a feverish police manhunt for a 19-year-old suspect that effectively closed down Tennessee’s second largest city for five hours ended on Wednesday night when the police announced that they had captured the man. The manhunt, which began after the first shootings at about 4:30 p.m., prompted the authorities […]
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The police in Las Vegas searched the home of a county official on Wednesday in connection with the stabbing death of a veteran reporter for The Las Vegas Review-Journal who had written several investigative stories about the official, according to the local news media and a neighbor. According to The Review-Journal, reporters saw uniformed officers […]
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HOUSTON — In the wake of a massacre at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde, the Texas Department of Public Safety has quietly adopted a much more aggressive approach to handling school shootings, according to a July email obtained by The New York Times. The department has also referred five of its officers […]
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When your car breaks down and has to be towed to a dealer for repair, you brace yourself for the bill that’s to come. But you don’t expect to be hit with a further $2,000 to replace an item that was working fine when the vehicle arrived at the dealership. However, that’s exactly what happened […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: SETH HERALD / Getty So, there’s this viral video circulating around social media that shows a police officer confronting and then detaining a white male who may or may not be a “kid” after he apparently flipped off the cop. What resulted was a picture-perfect display of white privilege that serves […]
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Some said it was dumb. Some thought it was politically disastrous. Some thought it was being unfairly demonized and mischaracterized. But whatever the case, Defund the Police, both the slogan and the substance of the issue, appears to be dead. Its opponents beat it to death, not that it was ever wildly popular. A poll […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker greets the crowd during a rally with former President Donald Trump on September 25, 2021, in Perry, Georgia. | Source: Sean Rayford / Getty Herschel Walker is either 1) inconceivably dumb or 2) he knows how inconceivably dumb his constituents are or 3) he enjoys embarrassing himself […]
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Police in a small Arkansas town has been banned from writing tickets for a year after being in too much of a hurry to issue citations. Menifee has a population of just 302, but it generated a massive $120,000 in fines in 2020, equivalent to almost $400 per person, including children and non-drivers, though some […]
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The president disbanded the Federal Police and created the National Guard to tackle soaring violence, but three years later, criminal cartels have expanded their reach. Aug. 31, 2022 CELAYA, Mexico — The butcher had been killed and no one knew why. The execution occurred in broad daylight as he worked in a family-owned restaurant, one […]
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The New South Wales Police announced last week that they caught a 1960 Bentley S2 at the border that was being used to attempt to smuggle cocaine, methylamphetamine, and fentanyl into the country. Caught at Port Botany in Sydney, Australia, according to NSW Police, the car was X-rayed following a tip from the Australian Border […]
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WASHINGTON — For months, President Biden has tried to blunt attacks that he is soft on crime by distancing himself from progressive calls to defund police departments. In a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Mr. Biden is expected to take a page from his opponents’ playbook and accuse Republicans of no longer being the party […]
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The Los Angeles Police Department has started to crackdown on unlawful street takeovers. Over the August 19-21 weekend, the LAPD initially responded to a takeover that was quickly forming in West L.A at the intersection of Sawtelle and National boulevards. Hundreds of people had gathered but police swooped in before the takeover could even begin. […]
Read MoreFormer officer Ryan Remington, 32, is accused of recklessly causing the death of Richard Lee Richards, 61, in the Nov. 30 shooting in Tucson. Photo by Tucson Police Department The off-duty Tucson police officer who fatally shot a man in a wheelchair nine times in the back is facing a manslaughter charge, a grand jury […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty Every once in a while, I come across a story where I genuinely don’t know how to feel. On Tuesday, students at Denver South High School were shown a video on how to respond if a student is being attacked because of their race. The video instructs […]
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