The non-emergency dispatch line for the Boynton Beach Police Department was down due to an AT&T services issue Saturday. Police say that in the event you need to reach authorities, you can call ...

Previous legislation—passed as a result of public outcry—had all but barred the use of less-lethal weapons such as tear gas ...

The Seattle City Council passed a bill Tuesday allowing police officers — in limited cases — to use weapons like tear gas, ...

These social workers get dispatched alongside Seattle police to help with welfare checks, person-down reports, and other types of low-level crisis calls. “It's interesting to get to know each ...

Past councils greatly restricted the use of such weapons in the wake of the Seattle Police Department’s violent ... have to declare a state of civil emergency. State law already restricts ...

The Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that allows Seattle police to use less lethal weapons during crowd management ...

The vote could also remove one of the final hurdles to end federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department (SPD ... vote requires the mayor declare an emergency before tear gas can be deployed.

The development came after the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office released the frantic 911 calls after the family ... Wednesday afternoon, the Sarasota Police Department announced that they ...

But it does make Tacoma the latest Washington city to call for the decriminalization of the plant- and fungi-based psychedelics, following others such as Seattle. Seattle’s City Council passed a ...

A man from New Jersey is facing charges in South Florida after allegedly making multiple false calls to 911 about shootings ... working with the local police department in Maywood, New Jersey ...

“What we got was a daunting number of police ... Jose Police Department’s use-of-force incidents, including 80% of killings, over a decade. A city-commissioned analysis of 911 calls found ...