Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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The city's police department will utilize a new crowd management team for tonight’s game.
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Officials said the new approach will involve “collaboration efforts” of the city’s bureaus of Fire, Police and Emergency Medical Services.
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States around the country are trying to assert more oversight of oil trains following high-profile derailments.
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More than half of the cases still under investigation by the city's police oversight agency included dashcam videos, surveillance footage and audio.
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Some students feeling unsafe about classrooms after dramatic scene.
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A new study has found that when police-worn body cameras are in play, citizen assaults on cops went up.
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The San Francisco Police Union unanimously approved a proposal for body worn cameras that requires officers to make an initial statement of facts before screening body-camera footage.
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Over the past 16 years in Ventura County, Calif., 895 people were killed with a gun. That's an average of 56 people a year.
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck confirmed that the shooter was one of the two men killed inside a small office in the campus’ engineering complex.
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State legislators step back from a bill that would limit such technology and instead take a reasonable approach — that should serve as a model for state legislators considering regulation for other emerging technologies.
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Special Response team in Oneonta, N.Y. is ready for hostage, active-shooter situations and other emergencies.
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The more context officials can add to a certain action, the more they will know about a potential breach.
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The notoriously vulnerable and open-ended Internet of Things is at the heart of a nearly quarter-million-dollar Department of Homeland Security award to a California-based company.
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This year's season, from June 1 through Nov. 30, could be more active than those the past couple of years.
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About 50 role-players acted as student witnesses and victims while paramedics and firefighters teamed up with police officers and deputies.
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'People often don’t respond to the initial sound of a gunshot as an emergency. They respond with curiosity, which of course is dangerous to them.'
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The fake incident played out like this: A lone shooter with a book bag entered the library where he killed and wounded several people. He moved about the first floor and up to the second floor where he stood his ground in a back room.
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The hazmat group was formed as a way to help when hazardous materials have been mishandled.
