A shocking incident in Chihuahua, Mexico, has exposed the grip of cartel power over law enforcement. According to leaked reports, ten state police officers were surrounded, abducted, and beaten by more than 80 Sinaloa Cartel gunmen before being released. The attack occurred on August 24, but Mexican officials attempted to suppress details until testimonies surfaced this week through El Diario de Juarez.
Aurelian, a tech startup aiming to support America’s strained emergency response system, has secured $14 million in funding to expand its AI-powered voice assistant. The tool is designed to manage non-emergency 911 calls, easing the burden on overstretched dispatch centers across the country.
A veteran D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) sergeant has alleged in a lawsuit that the department systematically misclassified homicides as accidents or unknown causes to artificially lower the city’s crime statistics. Carlos Bundy, a 28-year MPD officer and former member of the homicide unit, claims this manipulation of crime data poses serious risks to public safety and trust.
Three Pittsylvania County, Virginia, deputies were injured Wednesday night while serving warrants in the town of Gretna after a suspect allegedly opened fire on them. The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said the deputies were not directly struck by bullets but were wounded by shrapnel during the exchange. All three sustained non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to recover.
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, host Symone Sanders Townsend pushed back on the idea that more police automatically make streets safer, while discussing President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration placing Washington, D.C.’s police force under federal control. The move came as Trump cited what he called a crime emergency in the nation’s capital.
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) will assume control of a high-profile investigation into allegations that former South Yorkshire Police officers were complicit in the Rotherham grooming gang scandal — including accusations that some officers personally raped victims.
Massachusetts officials included Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group, alongside Antifa in a police training manual, designating it a "hate group."
Less than a week after Seattle leaders celebrated the soft opening of the city’s $750 million Downtown Waterfront revitalization, a broad daylight shooting near Pier 58 has reignited public safety concerns in the heart of the city’s tourist district.
Authorities arrested 28-year-old James Andrew McGann on Wednesday in connection with the brutal slayings of Clinton and Cristen Brink at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas. The couple was murdered in front of their two young daughters while on a family hike Saturday, according to Arkansas State Police.
