Public Safety

Violence between the extreme right and left prompts local action

• 17th October 2018

Hurricane destruction leads experts to reconsider Florida building code

• 15th October 2018

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump today visited the Florida and Georgia cost to meet with officials in communities ravaged by Hurricane Michael. Damage is extensive, at least 18 are dead, and least one town has practically been wiped off the map. Michael hit the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 hurricane, and […]

‘Coffee with a Cop’ events bring residents closer to local law enforcement

• 1st October 2018

Multiple police departments across the country are celebrating Coffee with a Cop to improve relations with the residents they serve. The Hawthorne, Calif. Police Department launched the event in 2011 after brainstorming ways to interact better with the public they served, according to the Coffee with A Cop website. Seven years later, Coffee with a […]

Florence-battered communities face other dangers besides weather-borne destruction

• 17th September 2018

As Hurricane Florence has battered parts of the southeast coast of the U.S., officials across multiple states have reported damage to their communities and ongoing dangers they face. “Our city has suffered obviously one of the most devastating storms in its 308 year history,” New Bern, N.C. city manager Mark Stephens said at a Sept. […]

The digital dragnet

• 4th September 2018

Facial recognition technology, if left unchecked, could fundamentally change what it means to be an American. In late June, Jarrod Ramos shot his way through the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., killing five and injuring two more. According to local reports, Ramos was uncooperative after Anne Arundel County police took him into custody. To identify […]

Kentucky police officer fights for restored rank after winning lawsuit against his city

• 22nd August 2018

After being awarded $300,000 in a whistleblower lawsuit he filed against Louisville, Ky., a Louisville police officer is now demanding he get his rank back.

Denver Police Department rolls out new use-of-force policy

• 13th August 2018

The Denver Police Department’s new use-of-force policy, which took over a year to draft, was designed with the hopes of increasing public trust and fostering better relations between police and the community.

Anchorage fortifies its computer systems as hackers attack neighboring municipalities

• 6th August 2018

A potent cyber attack is spreading through local Alaskan governments, but the state’s biggest municipality is determined not to fall victim to it.

Local governments create ‘safe exchange zones’ for online transactions, child custody exchanges

• 6th August 2018

Police and sheriff’s departments across the country are setting up safe exchange zones, where online transactions and child custody exchanges can occur under video surveillance to ensure the safety of all parties involved.

Frustrated, demoralized Seattle police officers leave department

• 9th July 2018

Due to frustrations over local politics and steadily declining morale, Seattle police officers are leaving the force in what the city’s police union is calling a “mass exodus.”