Public Safety
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While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced. -
The proposed legislation would require public agencies to delete any footage their license-plate-reader cameras, such as those sold by Flock Safety, collect within 72 hours.
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1.
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The Mayor’s Remembrance Walk grew out of a national movement to establish local “freedom” marches in every state to memorialize 9/11 victims.
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The exponential escalation of mobile computing and analytics has given officers intelligence on the go and greatly improved their chances of being in the right place at the right time.
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One of the lessons attendees took away from the Orlando training session was the high level of coordination that has to take place after such a catastrophic event.
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With four months left in 2016, there have been 150 shootings and 47 slayings in the city of 216,000 residents. It had 44 homicides all of last year.
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'It’s a hard way to live, wondering if that one cramp in your leg or a cough is the onset of your turn with some of the 9/11 illnesses that kill” so many responders.
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At least one shooter is allegedly dead by what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ElPasoProud.com reports.
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Foreign policy was barely discussed during the 2000 presidential election. The world was going our way. Then it happened.
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Reports of staff members being struck or injured by students or colleagues are up in the Anoka-Hennepin and Minneapolis school districts.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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Dispute over Harris County, Texas, jail video highlights the growing prevalence of using videotape to review actions by officers in making arrests and by detention officers in their treatment of inmates in jail.
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It’s 'not so much hate as trying to understand in my mind — why?' 'What did it accomplish murdering all those people? It didn’t accomplish anything.'
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The announcement was made Thursday while Brown was on a golf trip with his wife in Austin, surprising many city leaders and his own staff.
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Along with stickers to show his police and firefighter status, he was given “Livesaving Award” certificates from both departments, plus goodie bags with a stuffed animal, water bottle and a plastic firefighters hat.
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A settlement could have meant increased theater safety but it fell through at the last hour.
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A revised assessment comes after surprisingly swift and relatively bloodless victories this summer near Syria’s border with Turkey and in the Sunni heartland of Iraq.
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A police spokesman said he took issue with characterization of the program as "secret surveillance," suggesting there was no need for the department to make it public.
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Pennsylvania officials urge integration of counterterrorism task force operations into emergency management law.
