``Protesters scolded Holder's remarks as they marched from Freedom Plaza to the main entrance of the Justice Department, which was barricaded by DC police and officers from DHS. After a handful of impassioned speeches, several struggling homeowners jumped the barricade. Show More Summary
In a speech at 1 Police Plaza today Mayor Bloomberg gave a blistering critique of anyone who would dare challenge the NYPD?be it civil liberties groups, mayoral candidates, or the press. “My message is simple: Stop playing politics with public safety. Look at what’s happened in Boston," Bloomberg said. "Remember what happened here on 9/11." [ more › ]
Reuters reports Sohel Rana, owner of the now-collapsed Rana Plaza that claimed the lives of at least 385 Bangladeshi garment workers, was arrested yesterday when police commandos found him in a border town trying to flee to India. He will be questioned over the next fifteen days. Rana's father Abdul
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The police released a photograph of a man who is wanted for trying to rape a woman yesterday morning just steps from City Hall and blocks from 1 Police Plaza. [ more › ]
Police say three people were shot Saturday in a shopping plaza near Pittsburgh, Pa., NBC affiliate WPXI reported. Police are still searching for the gunmen.
Protest Of CPS School Closings: Arrests, Tangled Evening Commute Stem From Loop Rally HuffPostEdu: A throng of protestors, police and media descended on Daley Plaza Wednesday, kicking off what are expected to be several weeks of demonstrations against the Chicago Public School closures. Show More Summary
That'll show em!: A rally to protest school closings led by the Chicago Teachers Union at Daley Plaza in the Loop this afternoon included a march to City Hall and planned civil disobedience during a sit-in.The official police crowd estimate was 700 to 900, according to the department’s News Affairs office, while a city official on the scene estimated the crowd as up to 2,000.[...]Show More Summary
A rally to protest school closings led by the Chicago Teachers Union at Daley Plaza in the Loop this afternoon included a march to City Hall and planned arrests during a sit-in. The official police crowd estimate was 700 to 900, according...Show More Summary
A rally to protest school closings led by the Chicago Teachers Union at Daley Plaza in the Loop got under way at about 4 p.m. Estimates from police about the crowd ranged from under a thousand people to 2,500 people.
The new CBS show Golden Boy premiered last night (to middling ratings), focusing on how the youngest Police Commissioner in history (at 34 years old) got to One Police Plaza. Of course, it's all fiction, following the story of "a young cop who rises quickly through the ranks" to get behind the big desk. Show More Summary
Despite the existence of Find My iPhone, real-time crime centers, and Domain Awareness Systems, a cop's basic technological lifeline is their radio. Today the Times' beat reporter at 1 Police Plaza delves into the practice of "keying...Show More Summary
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was not in the holiday spirit as he prepared to set off from the Plaza on his Christmas Eve stroll.
District attorney's investigators have cleared police in the death of a suspected shoplifter who died while in Costa Mesa police custody. Investigators said the May 2011 death of George Marques, 44, of Placentia could be attributed to natural causes. County...
Two bandits walked into the Victoria's Secret store in the downtown Horton Plaza shopping center crowded with Christmas shoppers this week and stole about 300 pairs of panties, the San Diego Police Department said Friday.
Leesburg police searched a Plaza Street residence Tuesday afternoon in connection to an earlier incident involving multiple shots fired at a tow truck driver in Leesburg, according to authorities. The driver was not wounded in the incident, which occurred about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday on Plaza Street, police said. Read full article >>
Today (Tuesday, November 6) marks 13 years since grandmother, Irma Palasics, was brutally murdered at her home in McKellar. ACT Policing Criminal Investigations Detectives from the Homicide team were outside the Woden Plaza this morning speaking with members of the public, in the hope someone can assist in identifying the teenagers present at an attempted aggravated [...]
Occupy Oakland, the loosely organized off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street that gained national media attention last year because of the lengthy war they waged with Oakland police over the occupation of Frank Ogawa Plaza, is commemorating the one-year anniversary of the melee that started it all today. Show More Summary
A man was seriously injured after being first shot and then hit by a car Tuesday night in Prince William County, the county police said. Police described the shooting, which occurred about 7:30 p.m. at Marumsco Plaza in the Woodbridge area, as not a random event, and said it ppeared to involve people acquainted with each other. Show More Summary
Kelly Osbourne attends a photo call to promote E! Entertainment on Wednesday (October 17) at the El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City, Mexico. The 27-year-old fashion consultant was joined by her Fashion Police co-panelist George Kotsiopoulos. Kelly is featured on the cover of Fault magazine‘s Fall 2012 issue, in which she touches on everything from [...]
A Home Depot store on Long Island was evacuated for the second time this week after a report of a suspicious package sent police rushing to the scene and led customers and employees of an entire shopping plaza to vacate the area. The second Home...