Amid a nationwide shortage of police officers that is especially acute in Minnesota's Twin Cities, state leaders are preparing an unprecedented package of incentives to shore up the ranks of law ...

Sweeping criminal justice reforms in Illinois have had "overwhelmingly negative" effects, a small town sheriff in the southern part of the state said a year after the law was implemented. "These kinds ...

EXCLUSIVE: The head of one of the nation's top law enforcement organizations is urging President Biden to strike a "positive" tone on policing during his upcoming State of the Union address to show ...

M. Douglas Scott is a retired police chief with nearly four decades of law enforcement experience, including 17 years as Chief of Police with three different departments in Virginia—Fairfax County, ...

He is the man who steps into the dark so others can sleep, who wears the weight of public doubt as quietly as the badge on ...

When visualizing your current law enforcement agency, what do you feel are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? Has the reduction of qualified or prospective officers affected your staffing, budget ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane Valley Police Department (SVPD) was re-awarded the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) Accreditation, the highest professional policing standards.

Michigan City Police Chief Steven Forker remembers there being a room full of qualified applicants when he tested 18 years ago to join the force. That number dwindled to 17 applicants during the ...

In a sign of the rule of law prevailing over government overreach, a Superior Court judge recently blocked the state’s fledgling police-licensing commission from asking officers to disclose social ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The deadly attack on Baton Rouge police officers sent ripple effects to New York City's police department. The NYPD released a memo Sunday telling all officers to be on high ...

The stepmother of a woman who survived a gunman's attack near the campus of Colorado State University in 2017 is now hoping to help out first responders who helped save her daughter's life. Kristen ...