Boulder Police officers had their hands full as they responded to a late-night call on the Pearl Street Mall over the weekend. According to the police report of one arresting officer, Steve Sanders, a bloodbath was already waiting for him when he arrived on scene at 1:02 a.m. Saturday, June 28. “I exited my marked […]
Sergeant Kevin Grimes with the Nicholasville Police Department thinks it’s unlikely they’ll ever know what led to Sunday night’s apparent murder-suicide on Linden Lane.
Nicholasville Police say there were a lot of car break-ins, with one reported car theft, on the city's south side Monday night. In one of them, a gun was stolen.
Nationwide police recruitment struggles felt in Kentucky
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Law enforcement agencies across the nation are struggling to fill vacant positions, and Kentuckyâs departments are no different.
According to the Department of Justice, the United States has been experiencing a downward trend in applications and the number of officers sworn-in since 2013. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports after years of steady growth, the number of full-time sworn-in officers dropped by more than 23,000 between 2013 and 2016. Meanwhile, a survey conducted by the National Police Foundation revealed 86% of U.S. departments are reporting a staffing shortage.
Of a church. i mean what, what does this have to do with god? what possible good is coming from this idea? a can pulls a gun and shoots a cop pulls a gun and shoots everybody and you say i knew that would happen! this is what happened. grimes was giving a speech about improving summer communication to summer basketball league program when the planned altercation breaks out. grimes doesn t know what to do and does what any cop would do intervenes. in the process, he is pushed down and thrown to the ground. he later had to go to the hospital for his back. he s doing better now, by the way. now in defensive mode, he pulls out his taser gun. which at some point someone steps in and tries to explain oh, oh, you re on candid camera. [ laughing ] you re lucky people didn t lose their lives in this. the last thing you want to do is threaten a police officer.