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The Associated Press has found that about 1,000 police officers have had their law-enforcement licenses revoked for sexual misconduct while in uniform. AP based its yearlong study on a state-by-state search of decertification records. It covered a six-year period, 2009-2014, during which 550 officers lost their license for rape, extorting citizens into performing sexual acts…

The police say they believe they’ve caught the person who torched churches in the St. Louis area. Authorities announced Friday the arrest of David Lopez Jackson, who has been charged with the arson of two churches, according to the Washington Post. “Hopefully, there are more charges coming,” said St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, referring…

Scores of people gathered Saturday at Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach, Fla., to say their final farewells to Corey Jones. He was laid to rest, with his drumsticks inside his casket, during a nearly four-hour funeral, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Police Officer Nouman Raja killed Jones in…

St. Louis County Police said Saturday that the county medical examiner’s autopsy concluded that Amonderez Green died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound under the chin, the Associated Press reports. The bullet was fired from a .38-caliber revolver, which is the same type of gun that police said Green used during a shootout with them. According…

A federal judge in Texas this week dismissed a manslaughter charge against a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 32-year-old black man after an attempted bank robbery in 2013, according to the Washington Post. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed the charge against Charles Kleinert in the shooting death of Larry Jackson Jr. in Austin,…

A New York City EMT has been suspended after stopping his ambulance to rush to the aid of a choking 7-year-old girl at a public elementary school without having been dispatched to the scene, according to Fox News. Despite Qwasi Reid’s valiant effort, the girl, Noelia Echavarria, a second-grader at P.S. 250 in Brooklyn, was declared…

About 50 students at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., walked out of class Friday in a show of support for a fired school resource officer who was recorded attacking a 16-year-old student in a viral video, according to Fox 57. The walkout occurred about 10 a.m. to show support for school resource officer…

DawgPoundUSA.com has come out swinging after a Philadelphia man claimed that someone at the online porn site drugged him and filmed him engaged in a same-sex threesome. Earlier this month, Yusaf Mack, 35, a retired boxer who won several world championships, claimed that he had no memory of shooting a same-sex porn scene until people…

The St. Paul, Minn., Metro Transit officer who assaulted an autistic teen has been dismissed from his job. According to KARE 11, Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla told the news station that the officer, who was on the force less than a year, did not pass the probationary period, but he did not say if…