“One of the first things I did was to get down to his level, take a deep breath and not say anything for a couple minutes,” Officer Purdy said in an interview with WSOC.

Jenkins was pronounced dead on May 17, just one day before her 10th birthday, according to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

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Tom Angel, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell's chief of staff, sent the emails in 2012 and 2013 when he was the No. 2 police official in Burbank, California, the report says.

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Did Pinellas County Florida Sheriff's deputies do enough to save three African-American girls who drowned in a stolen car last month? All three families want answers to that question.

Delrish Moss, a 32-year veteran of the Miami Police Department, was announced as the choice on Thursday (Mar. 31) out of 54 applicants. Moss, who is Black, will have authority over a majority of police officers who are White and manage a town where two-thirds of the residents are African-American.

Racial slurs heard over the Chicago Police Department’s radio scanner may have come from sources outside the department, DNA Info Chicago reports. The incident occurred Sunday morning when a 911 dispatcher and an officer’s conversation was interrupted by other voices on the line. The dispatcher, who believed she was speaking to a police officer, then heard […]

Two Baltimore school police officers have been charged after a viral video showed one officer slapping and kicking a student as the other stood by.

A police officer is being praised for his kind gesture towards a man who was kicked off a New Jersey bus for not wearing any shoes.

Bishop Secular hasn’t seen that video of the young girl getting dragged across the classroom by a police officer, but he has some words to say…

Joel Fitzgerald, Forth Worth’s 1st Black Police Chief, Takes Charge https://t.co/T3kd6iGlhI pic.twitter.com/1rM4TVBtvC — Good Black News (@goodblacknews) October 26, 2015 History was made in Fort Worth,…