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Two New Jersey officers were attacked after responding to a 911 hang-up call, police said. The attack occurred Sunday night as officers responded to a 911 hang-up call in Galloway Township, New Jersey, according to the police department. 10 Philadelphia reports that the call brought two officers to a home on Cresson Avenue, where they were attacked as they investigated the call. The attacker injured both officers — one suffered a head injury and the other was “stabbed in the face.” The attacker has been caught, and both officers were treated at the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, although ABC 6...

A man wielding scissors was shot by police in Queens Wednesday afternoon, according to police and sources. NYPD officers responded to a report of an emotionally disturbed person on 103rd Street in the Ozone Park section of Queens. The man was shot by officers, sources told The Post. No shots were fired at officers and no police were injured. The man’s condition following the shooting was not immediately known.

Burnsville, Minnesota, police officers Matthew Ruge and Paul Elmstrand and firefighter/paramedic Adam Finseth were shot and killed while responding to a domestic call shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday. Breitbart News reported the shooting on Sunday, when it was known that three people — two officers and a medical first responder — were dead. A third officer was shot and wounded. 75 KSTP reported the identities of the deceased, noting that the subject of the domestic call was found dead in the house around 8 a.m. They noted that “none of the other family members inside the home were harmed, including...

Two police officers and a medical first responder were shot and killed Sunday around 5:30 a.m. while responding to a domestic situation in Burnsville, Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star said a third officer was wounded in the incident. Details on the incident are scant at this time, but a “law enforcement source says that police were called to a residence on a domestic incident when shots were fired,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

Air Force officials are considering bringing back warrant officers and may start creating a training program this year, reversing a decision from 65 years ago when the service ended that grade, according to a planning document obtained by Military.com. The three-page planning order says that "great power competition" -- Defense Department lingo for escalating defense spending and resources against adversaries such as China -- is underscoring the need to resurrect warrant officers, the corps of highly technical service members who are above the enlisted ranks but below the commissioned officer ranks.

SAN DIEGO — With the new year, comes new state laws, including one that changed the qualifications to become a police officer in California. Now, anyone who can legally work in the state under federal law, can be a police officer, regardless of citizenship. CBS 8 cleared up some misconceptions about the new law by going directly to the State Senator who wrote the bill, and we talked with the San Diego Police Officers Association about their concerns. “The San Diego Police Department has lost over 500 officers since July of 2020. That's drastic. We need everyone we can to...

At least three people were killed and two cops injured after a gunman opened fire in Farmington, New Mexico. Farmington police said the gunfire broke out on Dustin Avenue between Ute Street and Apache Street on Monday morning, with multiple civilian victims. The shooter, who has yet to be identified, was shot and killed by responding officers, with two of the cops shot and wounded. The officers, from the Farmington Police Department and New Mexico State Police, are both being treated for their injuries and are listed in stable condition. The city has since lifted the lockdowns placed on local...

Covenant School, the Christian school where an attacker killed three students Monday, did not have armed resource officers on campus when the attack occurred, Fox News reporter John Roberts noted during live coverage of the shooting at the Nashville area Covenant School. Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron indicated the attacker was a young woman, who appeared “to be in her teens,” armed with multiple firearms. Roberts said, “There was no school resource officer present at the school. It’s a private school, it doesn’t employ anybody from the Nashville police department to look after the school.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than $930,000 in U.S. currency during an attempted border crossing to Mexico. The officers found the undeclared cash in a vehicle being driven across the Brownville-Matamoros International Bridge on Tuesday. CBP officers assigned to the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge on January 10 observed a 2013 Chevrolet approaching in the exit lanes. Officers selected the vehicle for a “routine inspection” and directed the 21-year-old U.S. citizen driver to the secondary inspection area, according to a statement by CBP officials.

Two constables were shot dead Monday night while investigating a missing person report in stringently gun-controlled Australia, and a third person was shot and killed when he heard the shots and went to investigate. The New York Post reports that the shooting occurred after police went to an address in “Wieambilla in Queensland” in response to a tip regarding the whereabouts of 46-year-old Nathaniel Train. Two constables–26-year-old Matthew Arnold and 29-year-old Rachel McCrow–were shot and killed as they approached the residence, and a third member of law enforcement was shot and wounded

@ChadPergram Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the United States Capitol Police, the Washington D.C Metropolitan Police and those who protected the Capitol on 1/6 today

Top House and Senate leaders will present law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 with Congressional Gold Medals on Tuesday, awarding them Congress's highest honor nearly two years after they fought with former President Donald Trump’s supporters in a brutal and bloody attack. To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the medals will be placed in four locations - at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation last year that a medal...

I'm posting this in hopes of getting some traction with the press. I've posted it several other places and hope that people will copy and paste it as well as write their local representatives. One of the biggest tragedy's to hit Kentucky in a decade or more, three law Enforcement Officers and a K9 are murdered and every news outlet in Kentucky goes silent. All we know is that Storz was arraigned/indicted and that's it. Who was Lance Storz? What did he do for a living? What was his history? What events led up to the incident? What happened during...

Appearing Monday on FOX 5’s Good Day New York, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said he is not worried about New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers departing from the force in large numbers.

Multiple police officers were shot in a Pennsylvania city on Thursday afternoon. At least three officers were hospitalized after the shooting in a residential neighborhood in Lebanon at about 4:30 p.m., according to WGAL.

Three of our best and brightest pilots from the US Marine Corps join me to discuss their pending discharges and the forced end to careers they love, because the don’t want to take the experimental mRNA gene therapy shots. They want to SERVE, they just want exemptions from the jab – and YOU can help. Thanks for tuning in. https://www.sgtreport.com/2022/02/red-alert-the-insane-vax-purge-of-our-armed-forces/

Four people are in custody after two officers were shot Wednesday afternoon in Ferguson, Missouri. The officers were shot while approaching a vehicle around 1 p.m. in an attempt to apprehend a homicide suspect, FOX 2 NOW reported. Gunshots rang out as the officers closed in on the vehicle.

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said the ambush shooting of two New York City police officers Friday signaled the need for congressional action in Washington, D.C. to help "fight the scourge of illegal guns on our streets."

Two NYPD officers were shot and wounded in the Bronx after responding to a call of a man with a gun Wednesday evening. Both officers were taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital and are expected to recover. The suspect was also taken to Saint Barnabas where he remains in serious condition after being struck as both officers returned fire. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea provided details of the shooting incident in a televised statement shortly after the incident unfolded.

During the signing ceremony for three bills designed to support law enforcement and first responders, President Biden took some time to speak to the 7-year-old son of an officer who took his own life in 2019. Biden signed the Protecting America’s First Responders Act of 2021, the Confidentiality Opportunities for Peer Support (COPS) Counseling Act, and the Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila Federal Officers and Employees Protection Act on Thursday morning. All three serve to support law enforcement through increased benefits, peer support, and granting the US extraterritorial jurisdiction over certain crimes against federal officers or employees abroad. Shortly after...