
Groups across Alberta are cautioning the province against ditching the RCMP and creating its own police force.

Groups across Alberta are cautioning the province against ditching the RCMP and creating its own police force.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea is trying to sway officers – some of the most vaccine-hesitant workers in city government – to comply with last week’s order by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Hawaii ACLU is demanding change after a 10-year-old Black girl who has ADHD was arrested at her elementary school after she drew an ‘offensive sketch’ of her alleged bully.
The girl, identified only as N.B., was reportedly detained and questioned by police at Honowai Elementary School in January 2020 without the presence of a parent.
She was also ‘handcuffed with excessive force’ and taken to the police station without being charged with a crime, the ACLU alleged in a letter to the Hawaii Police Department (HPD) and the state Department of Education (DOE) that was released Tuesday.

The Philadelphia City Council voted 14-2 on Thursday to pass the Driving Equality Bill — designed to reduce “unequal police practices” against minority motorists, or what’s been called “driving while black,” for minor offenses such as busted tail lights or expired inspection stickers.

New Brunswick police arrested associate pastor Cody Butler on Sunday at His Tabernacle Family Church after holding a worship service that exceeded the “health limit” arbitrarily set by the government. Authorities literally padlocked the church.

Crime is on the rise in San Francisco but city officials have placed more than 180 employees including police and sheriff’s departments who have not received a coronavirus vaccine on paid leave, a move that triggers a process that could end in termination.
“For the first time in four years, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased when compared with the previous year’s statistics,” the FBI admitted in a press release.

Two white male students were accosted by a pair of female students in a space on the campus of Arizona State University over a “racist” sticker on a laptop that said “Police Lives Matter,” and told the leave the room, according to a video posted online that has since gone viral.

The Hancock administration’s plan for the Street Enforcement Team, which staffers likened to park rangers when it was unveiled in July, is to give its members authority to enforce and issue citations for twenty laws, including ones generally associated with people experiencing homelessness, such as unauthorized camping, public urination, trespassing and obstruction of the public right-of-way. The team will also be able to issue citations for failure to obey a lawful order, providing false information and violating court orders.

The agency also has asked for security support from the National Guard and received authorization to deputize law enforcement officers from other agencies, if needed.
Update – Far-right groups tell supporters planned Washington rally is a government ‘trap’
Extremist groups and prominent rightwing figures are warning supporters not to attend a far-right rally in support of the people arrested for participating in the 6 January Capitol attack, calling the event a “false flag” and a “trap”.
Capitol police are bracing for potential violence at the “Justice for J6” protest rally, which is taking place in Washington DC on Saturday, and security fencing has gone up once more around the Capitol building.

Police say a London man is charged with manslaughter in connection with a weekend assault near Western University that killed an 18-year-old.

Someone finally hit an airplane with a drone while flying it near an airport. And of all people, it was the cops.

The husband of Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed woman killed at the January 6th Capitol Riot by a police officer, expressed his anger at the celebration of the cop and her death in an interview with FNC host Tucker Carlson.

After months of supposed hiding, the Capitol Hill cop who shot unarmed pro-Trump protestor Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol, Lt. Michael Byrd has come out of the woodwork to talk about his shooting, in a softball interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.