African-American selected to be Miami-Dade’s senior police officer
theGRIO REPORT - The new director, J.D. Patterson Jr., was one of six candidates in the running for the county’s most senior cop...
Obama meets police chiefs of mass shooting scenes
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama was meeting on Monday with police chiefs from the three U.S. communities that saw the worst mass shootings of 2012...
Judge lets NYPD resume stop-and-frisks
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops at thousands of privately owned buildings...
Police sent to Chris Brown's home in latest hoax
(AP) - Police have responded to Chris Brown's home after they received a call about a domestic violence situation that turned out to be false...
Police: Man suspected of setting girlfriend on fire
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco police searched Sunday for a man suspected of throwing a flammable liquid at his girlfriend and severely burning her...
Camden gun buyback program collects over 1,100 guns
theGRIO REPORT - Gun owners in Camden, New Jersey, one of the most dangerous cities in America, turned over an alarming 1,137 firearms this weekend, according to Philly.com...
Marion Barry: DC police need to 'get in the gym, go on a diet'
Washington DC mayor and current Democratic council member for Ward 8 is not the most diplomatic when it comes to expressing his feelings.
Study: Half of people shot by cops mentally ill
theGRIO REPORT - A new study in a Maine newspaper sheds light on a national problem of police and the fatal shooting of the mentally ill...
Family sues police for video after violent death in custody
NBC NEWS - Alesia Thomas died in police custody last July after having her hands and ankles bound together behind her back and being kicked in the genitals by an officer...
Police video released in Belcher murder-suicide
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he killed his girlfriend and later shot himself...
