law enforcement

The local federal prosecutor in Philadelphia said Mayor Jim Kenney’s ban on gatherings of 50 or more people through next February is unconstitutional if the city allows protests during the same period.

Experts say collective bargaining agreements between officer unions and cities can stand in the way of accountability

Three members of the Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club were killed Saturday during a suspected drunk driving crash in Texas.

City leaders announced Philadelphia’s large-scale events will be canceled through February of next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Villanova University Professor David Fiorenza speaks to NBC10’s Jim Rosenfield about the financial impact this will have.

Police in the D.C. area and around the world are testing a new kind of electronic lasso designed to take down a suspect without hurting them.  It’s called a BolaWrap and looks a little like something Wonder Woman or Spider-Man might have dreamed up. A handheld device that looks like a Taser shoots cord as far as 25 feet...

Rayshard Brooks, the man who was shot and killed by police last week at an Atlanta, Georgia, drive-through, gave an interview in February about the inequalities of the U.S. criminal justice system. Brooks’ interview was conducted by Reconnect as part of a project about individuals on probation or parole.

While announcing a police reform executive order on Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered a mixed message that both praised members law enforcement as well as victims of police homicide, touted economic milestones, championed school choice “as the civil rights issue of all time in this country,” and mischaracterized the record of his predecessor.

Tom Wolf, the scion of one of the oldest and most successful families in York County, won a first term in 2014 by making Republican Gov. Tom Corbett the first incumbent to go down in defeat since Pennsylvania in the 1970s began allowing governors to serve a second term.

At a roundtable discussion on law enforcement on Monday, President Donald Trump confirmed that he will not pursue rollbacks to U.S. police funding and praised the job that law enforcement is doing.

Drunken driving, along with sex abuse, are the crimes most often committed by local members of Amish sects.

More than three weeks after his disappearance, officials found the keys of missing college student Shane Montgomery.

The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.

Retired police officer Rochelle Bilal and former deputy sheriff detective Malika Rahman are taking on embattled Philadelphia Sheriff Jewell Williams, who was accused by at least three women of sexual harassment.

The next police commissioner of Philadelphia will be Portland, Oregon, Police Chief Danielle Outlaw. Outlaw, 44, has served as the top-ranking police official for the West Coast city for a little over two years, since October 2017. She was the first black woman to hold the position, according to her biography on the Portland city website. She will also be...

Danielle Outlaw, the former chief of Portland, Ore., police, was introduced at Philadelphia City Hall on Monday afternoon. She is the first black female police commissioner and will oversee the fourth-largest municipal police department in the country.

The husband of a woman who vanished in 1981 has been charged with the woman’s murder 38 years later.

A 22-year-old Queens man who lived with his parents and allegedly wanted to shoot up Times Square has been arrested after federal authorities who had been surveilling him say he tried to buy guns, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told News 4 Friday.

A months-long joint investigation between NBC Bay Area and NBC News found thousands of foreign students may have used false employment records at more than a dozen potential shell companies to illegally stay in the country after attending American universities. Stephen Stock reports on a story that first aired Wednesday, Nov. 27.

Sunday marks one year since actor and comedian Tracy Morgan suffered serious injuries in a New Jersey Turnpike crash that left his friend Jimmie Mack dead and the driver of a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer charged. This is a look at how we covered the wreck at the time.