Local officers recommend residents stay home, avoid large gatherings this holiday season
Area law enforcement officers are doling out their usual holiday safety tips for shoppers and travelers, but this year it includes one unique recommendation thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic: Avoid large gatherings, and stay home if possible.
Preparing for attacks on schools
About 1,000 people — primarily educators and staff from Lowndes County School District and Mississippi University for Women — were silent as they watched what appeared to be surveillance footage of two teenage boys armed with long guns stalking the hallways of a school.
Making an iron-clad case: DA-sponsored training helps Golden Triangle law enforcement with reports, interviewing techniques
Rule number one: Everybody lies.
Officers: Citizen complaints part of the job
For law enforcement agents, each day comes with countless interactions with citizens.
AP: Patchy reporting undercuts national hate crimes count
The knock on the door, strong and quick, jolted Barbara Hicks Collins awake. Someone must be in trouble, she thought. She flung open her front door to the shocking sight of her car engulfed in flames.
Q&A: How the federal reporting system is supposed to work
The FBI collects extensive data on hate crimes each year, but more than 2,700 local law enforcement agencies are not submitting the information, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.
Our View: Common thread exists among law enforcement, public perception and the media
It’s a pretty tough time to be a good cop.
Golden Triangle law enforcement agencies seek more diversity
While a nationwide debate on the racial makeup of law enforcement agencies continues, statistics show agencies in Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties are working toward becoming mirrors of the communities they serve.
Obama: Mistrust of police corroding America
The widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Missouri exists in too many other communities and is having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly on its children, President Barack Obama says.
Congressman wants to curb military surplus program
Images of police outfitted in paramilitary gear clashing with protesters in suburban St. Louis after the weekend shooting death of unarmed black teenager is giving new impetus to efforts to rein in a Pentagon program that provides free machine guns and other surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.
Social media, criminal case debate rages
The Mississippi Supreme Court could have added its voice to the national legal debate over law enforcement’s use of emails, cellphones, Facebook and other electronic communications in criminal investigations and prosecutions.
It didn’t.
Our view: New Hope shooting underscores peril law enforcement officers face
The gunfire that interrupted the quiet of a modest New Hope neighborhood on Tuesday should serve as a reminder to us all on two points:
First, this kind of incident can happen anywhere.
Second, the potential sacrifices that our law enforcement officer face can happen anytime.
House OKs bill to create 3 elite strike forces
JACKSON — Mississippi could be one step closer to setting up a trio of elite state law-enforcement strike forces. House members passed House Bill 749
States look to rein in government surveillance, strengthen privacy
Angry over revelations of National Security Agency surveillance and frustrated with what they consider outdated digital privacy laws, state lawmakers around the nation are proposing bills to curtail the powers of law enforcement to monitor and track citizens.
Miss. officers learn to fight human trafficking
PEARL — Mississippi law officers are learning how to more thoroughly investigate cases of human trafficking. About 80 state and local officers are at the
Regional police agencies unite to solve old crimes
Red and white signs still are peppered throughout the city of Columbus, displaying the faces of senior citizens killed in the late ’90s.