The vote, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old directive, comes amidst a sea change in BPD’s access to surveillance tech and other hardware.

The Asheville Police Department announced that an armed robbery suspect turned himself in to police following an incident on ...

The Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolution that removes the Berkeley Police Department’s requirement to report use of pepper spray after each time it is deployed. There was also ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of "family trouble" in an incident ...

New figures released by Police Scotland show a rise in the use of force last year as cops battle a rising tide of gangland ...

A Waynesboro man charged in a Memorial Day theft and pepper-spray assault has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

A 33-year-old Simi Valley man was arrested at his home Jan. 3 after police used a pepperball projectile and a K-9 to apprehend him, authorities said. Officers with the Simi Valley Police Department ...

BELLE GLADE, Fla. (CBS12) — A fight at Glades Central High School on Thursday led to the use of pepper spray and a medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rally in Sydney to protest Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia in February 2026 turned violent, with police ...

Leigh Kunkel never saw the federal agent pointing a pepper ball gun at her face from about twenty feet away. Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in ...

A man accused of using pepper spray during an attempted armed robbery in Asheville has turned himself in, police said.