A former Philadelphia police officer, who was once hailed a hero, is being held on $60 million bail after two women accused him of raping them at gunpoint. One of the victims told detectives she met the former cop, identified as Richard DeCoatsworth, about two weeks ago at a bar on North Front Street. She [...]

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A former Connecticut police officer was arrested this week for downloading child pornography. Samuel DiProto, of Cromwell, was arrested at his home on Tuesday without incident. Authorities said 61-year-old DiProto, who was a Middletown police officer from September 1987 to August 2009, downloaded images and videos of child pornography from an internet file sharing network [...]

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A 33-year-old British police officer who was arrested for “relation to alleged criminal offenses” is said to have committed suicide. The body of West Yorkshire Police Officer Kevin Ellis was discovered in woodland in Lofthouse, West Yorks, early Thursday afternoon, one day after he was arrested. Details surrounding Ellis’ arrest have not been made public, [...]

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Update Sources have identified the female police officer who killed her 1-year-old son and her son’s father as Rosette Samuel. Original story Authorities in New York City said a female police officer shot and killed her boyfriend and her 1-year-old child before committing suicide inside her Brooklyn home. Police were called to the East Flatbush [...]

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A Florida police officer was fired last week for offering posters of murdered victim Trayvon Martin to other officers to use as shooting targets. Authorities said on April 4, Sgt. Ron King, of the Port Canaveral Police Department, was teaching a firearms training session at the Brevard Community College campus in Coca, Florida, when he [...]

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