Tag: Less Lethal

As I write this article, one officer in Phoenix Valley is injured and another is dead. The first, a DPS officer, had his patrol vehicle struck from behind while conducting ...

As time goes on, the availability of technological advances in the law enforcement community seems to be endless. This is no less true in the development of tools that are ...

OAKLAND - A man who was shot and killed on Saturday morning by Oakland and BART police officers after charging against them with knives in each hand was identified as ...

Police officers need to think first about saving lives, not enforcing the law, when dealing with people in states of excited delirium, a Champaign police lieutenant said Tuesday. Lt. Michael ...

Two people who died after police used Tasers on them have been ruled homicides by the DeKalb County medical examiner, but the officers involved likely won't be prosecuted. Autopsies found ...

HAVERHILL, Mass. - Two police officers are facing charges after an off-duty fracas outside a Massachusetts home ended with one officer using a Taser on the other. Daron Fraser lives ...

While the jury was deliberating his fate, former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle crafted a handwritten statement in which he apologized for the first time for shooting Oscar Grant, saying ...

BORING, Ore. (AP) -- Phyllis Owens apparently didn't know day from night when she died at 87, an hour after sheriff's deputies closed in on her as she reached for ...

VENTURA, Calif. - A man who sued a California police department after he was shocked twice with a Taser has been awarded $1 in damages. A federal court jury in ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division will investigate a white Oakland police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man on a crowded train platform, ...