Law enforcement

José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.

During a visit to Wilkes University on Tuesday, President Joe Biden blasted members of the GOP who continue to support participants of the Jan. 6 riot. “Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”

Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante responded Monday to video showing two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer beating a detained man and slamming his head into the cement in Arkansas.

After the attack on the Cincinnati FBI field office Thursday, the discussion on online extremist forums has heated up and grown more threatening against law enforcement, experts say. Donell Harvin, former chief of homeland security and intelligence in Washington D.C., joins LX News.

Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.

Out of more than 8,500 law enforcement officers who must meet the state’s new policing standards by Friday, at least seven will not be approved for recertification by the new Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission and could be barred from the profession in Massachusetts. Executive Director Enrique Zuniga said Thursday morning that the POST Commission has the necessary information…

The actions of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers moved swiftly to the center of the investigation into this week’s shocking school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Authorities acknowledged Friday that children and teachers repeatedly begged 911 operators for help while the police chief told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway at Robb...

Texas authorities acknowledged Friday that officers did not immediately enact a tactical response during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, despite 911 calls from students inside begging for help.

Two years after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring new use-of-force rules for federal law enforcement. “I don’t know any good cop that likes a bad cop. But many people … such accountability is all too rare.”

President Joe Biden received a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle while addressing police funding during the State of the Union address. “The answer is not to defund the police. It’s to fund the police,” Biden said. “Fund them with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.”

President Joe Biden is considering expanding a policy that limits the use of “no-knock” warrants for certain federal agents.

The number of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty across the U.S. last year totaled 458, a 55% increase from 2020.

Standing in front of the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute on Saturday to fallen police officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site

Authorities confirmed Wednesday that Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of missing 22-year-old Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, is officially considered a person of interest who is “refusing to help the investigation.” The couple was on a cross-country road trip when Petito went missing in Wyoming; Laundrie returned to their home in North Port, Fla., without Petito nearly two weeks before she was reported...

Chicago’s watchdog agency has concluded that the gunshot detection system used by police rarely produces evidence of gun-related crime in the city.

After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals and moved instead in the other direction

Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop.

Seeing the stories of Asian Americans being attacked in cities from San Francisco to New York hits close to home for two veteran Cambridge Police officers. “My mother’s friend called her from California and warned my mother, Don’t step out of the house,’” said Sgt. Buckowe Yam. “Where now it’s putting fear in my mother here in Boston not...

Two Cambridge Police officers are making it their mission to help recruit more Asian American officers.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department is looking into how it can weed out any extremists from within federal law enforcement following the arrest of current and former law enforcement officers involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.