By David Porter Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — Newark's city council approved a police civilian review board Wednesday that gives New Jersey's largest city greater powers than most around the country to investigate wrongdoing within the police department. The department is already under a federal monitoring agreement, and the board will face a strong challenge […]

By David Ovalle Miami Herald MIAMI — Maria Cabrera Gonzalez is no cop. But her girlfriend is. Prosecutors say Cabrera — without authorization and posing as a plainclothes detective — was riding along with that girlfriend, Miami Police Officer Sheila Belfort, when the two pulled over a motorist in June 2014. But the misconduct didn’t […]

The officer’s attorney has said he feared for his life Source: Police Updates Off-duty Texas cop who fatally shot teen arrested on murder charge