Recent changes to Texas' police ethics standards will require officers convicted of drunken driving to face mandatory suspensions that could endanger their careers.

According to a recent article from the St. Augustine Record, St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar believes drastic cuts to mental health programs in his neck of Florida will drastically impact the nature of the job for his officers. As St. Johns County’s mental health treatment programs vanish, law enforcement is left holding the bag, Sheriff Shoar told the League of Women Voters at a recent meeting.

The Washington State Patrol would like to thank all the wonderful people of Washington who showed their compassion and care following the tragic death Trooper Tony Radulescu.

Waiting for the FedEx guy to deliver your new iPhone can be a frustrating. But a cop in Newark, Ohio may have crossed the line when he threatened to ticket Federal Express employees in a Facebook posting if he didn’t get his phone quickly. That might have been a mistake.

Joining a growing group of law enforcement officials, Minnesota officials want changes made in data laws to shield intelligence information. At the time this article was written, state law-enforcement officials said they were planning to ask the Minnesota egislature for the right to collect intelligence information on suspected terrorists and other criminal suspects without having to disclose who they are monitoring or why.

According to recent reports from ABC News, the Detroit Police Department is unveiling plans to close precincts as well as a district headquarters to the public after 4 p.m.
Officials say the plan is part of a larger effort to put more officers on patrol, especially in the most crime-plagued neighborhoods without spending any money.
Detroit is currently facing a $200 million budget deficit.

The film “Rampart” starring Woddy Harrelson who plays a corrupt LAPD cop, is based on the Rampart scandal in Los Angeles which burst onto the front pages of newspapers in the year 2000. The central figure of the film is Dave “Date Rape” Brown played by Woody Harrelson. (warning- spoiler alert ahead!)

In December 2010, Long Beach police officers shot and killed an intoxicated man who was holding a garden hose nozzle that from a distance the officers believed to be a gun.  A reporter for the Los Angeles Times made a request to the City of Long Beach under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for the names of the officers involved in that shooting, as well as the names of Long Beach officers involved in shootings for the preceding five years.  Long Beach Police Officers Association v. City of Long Beach, case no. B231245, February 7, 2012 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District), slip op. at 3.

A battle is unfolding in the quiet town of Westminster, Maryland where rank and file police officers seeking union representation are squaring off against the police chief and mayor who was a former state trooper for close to three decades. On the city side, after 32 Westminster officers signed a letter saying they wanted representation by the F.O.P. local politicos responded by accusing the Fraternal Order of Police of rabble rousing and infiltrating the 45-member department in order to make trouble and expand their union ranks.

The corporation CVS Caremark has agreed to pay nearly $19.9 million to settle claims that it defrauded California's pension fund and other customers. According to an article by McClatchy News Service, Caremark made the settlement with a group of former employees who sued the Rhode Island pharmaceutical distributor over Caremark's handling of a drug-benefit contract with California Public Employees' Retirement System, commonly known as CalPERS, between the years of 2003 and 2006.