Tag: Less Lethal

PLANTATION, Fla. --Police shot and killed a fugitive felon Thursday morning after the man tried to flee in a stolen Dodge Charger - with an officer dangling from the driver's ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- His German World War II military garb wasn't the reason.The possibility that a New Year's Eve stupor or mental distress played a role is incidental.The reason young ...

HOUSTON, Tex. -- Bob Meadours' family hesitated to ask for help from police when the 38-year-old suffered a paranoid breakdown in 2001. It took a dispatcher's assurance that officers were ...

WASHINGTON -- Fewer police officers died in the line of duty in 2008 compared to last year, reflecting better training and tactics, two law enforcement support groups reported Sunday.The findings ...

NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department has a new alert system that lets officers know if they are responding to locations where police have previously been sent to ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A man died Saturday after a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy responding to a violent attack in a Santa Rosa home stunned him three times with a ...

We read a lot about street survival techniques and training, and about the importance of knowing basic things such as interpreting body language. We recognize that these things have a ...

LONDON -- They're one of Britain's best known icons: helmeted bobbies, or policemen, who make their rounds on a bicycle or on foot, armed only with pepper spray and a ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Police officers would say later they had never seen anything like it. They sprayed Brian P. Wood with tear gas but he did not surrender. ...

A new study has found that the type of Taser stun gun used most by police officers can fire more electricity than the company says is possible, which the study's ...