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NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular character actor played a TV cop on “Law & Order” during his wide-ranging career, has died. Death came Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital after Farina suffered a blood clot in his lung, according to his publicist, Lori De Waal. […]

     We don’t know by now that being a cop and trying to have a flourishing rap career doesn’t mix? Four Irvington, New Jersey police…

When news reports surfaced saying hip-hop manager Chris Lighty died, the whole hip-hop community was saddened. In the midst of everyone’s grief, there were people…

I swear criminals in Florida are cut from a different cloth. In the recent past, either the suspect has committed a heinous act and has…

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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Tacoma could soon be in real trouble over pot. The department could be found in contempt if they continue to refuse to return a small amount of marijuana seized from a man after a traffic stop. Municipal Court Judge Jack Emery repeated an order to police Thursday to return […]

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A group of New Jersey officers from the Irvington Police Department are being investigated for creating rap videos, which feature them yelling homophobic slurs and threatening rivals with violence. In one video for a song called “Temper Like An Alcoholic,” artist “Gat The Great“ (pictured) carries a gun on his hip; another man even swings a […]

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Defense lawyers say a former Spokane police officer should not spend any time in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after being arrested on suspicion of stealing money from an ATM. Public humiliation and the loss of his career are punishment enough for Karl F. […]

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DALLAS (AP) — Authorities in a Texas county where a drug enforcement program was allegedly used to shake down black and Latino highway travelers are returning more than $100,000 taken during the traffic stops. The stops in Tenaha, which often resulted in people being forced to hand over cash without any charges being filed, have […]

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After more than a decade of law enforcement agencies systematically underreporting minority arrest figures, the city of San Francisco is now handcuffed and encumbered by a police department that has no accurate representation of actual incarceration numbers. All that can be assured is that blacks are jailed at a much higher rate than even the […]

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Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies remain under suspicion and increased investigation as a city probe widens into allegations that they all were a part of a clandestine clique of officers that celebrated shootings and branded one another with matching, gun-smoking skeleton tattoos for which each could earn additional ink for based on the rising […]

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BALDWIN, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Police are investigating the death of a 33-year-old man who was shot with a stun gun by a city police officer after reportedly escaping custody. State police spokesman Stephen Hammons says the victim’s identity is being withheld. Hammons says Police Chief Gerald Minor asked state police to step in […]