Law enforcement

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd provided details of an officer-involved shooting during which 42-year-old Timothy Schulz survived an alligator attack and allegedly attempted to steal a deputy’s firearm from their patrol cruiser.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as “qualified immunity,” which can protect cops even when they have violated the Constitution. Bills were introduced in Congress calling to abolish the defense. Multiple cases piled up at the Supreme Court urging...

Here’s an explanation of contempt of court and the potential consequences for a president and the federal government if a judge’s order is ignored.

“Drug-addicted rats” are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the department is required to store the evidence, officials said.

The Miami-Dade Police officer who got physical with Dolphins player Tyreek Hill during a traffic stop has been repeatedly disciplined and suspended after other people complained he became aggressive with them.

Bodycam footage shows an Oklahoma City police officer and bystander rescuing a sleeping man who rolled off a bridge.

A 63-year-old driver who was experiencing a medical emergency  while behind the wheel was saved during a daring rescue in Detroit, Michigan, this week.

Authorities say a U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been arrested for ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties. Border agent Shane Millan was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Prosecutors say the 53-year-old Millan...

In the 10 years since Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality, documented police killings in the United States have continued at virtually the same rate, an NBC News analysis of the Mapping Police Violence database found.  

The U.S. Marshals Service found 200 critically missing children across the nation over a six-week effort called “Operation We Will Find You 2.”

Four years ago, protests erupted across the country after millions of Americans watched the chilling video of the murder of George Floyd — a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. In the aftermath, Chauvin was convicted of murder and calls for a nationwide reckoning on issues related to racism and police…

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.

The Annual Police Unity Tour is on its way. Officers are riding from the Pennsylvania suburbs through Delaware then to Washington, D.C., to honor those who lost their lives in the line of duty. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle has the latest as they ride through Media, Delaware County.

Four police officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.

U.S. police departments have reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd.

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters.

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police...