CASE SUMMARIES Circuit Courts of Appeals Eighth Circuit United States v. Puckett, No. 24-1293 (8th Cir. 2025) Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper James Rorie stopped the defendant, Billy Puckett, for traffic violations. During the stop, Puckett disclosed his status as a registered sex offender due to a prior statutory rape [...]
The law directs the DOJ to work with LE and medical experts to set minimum standards for trauma kits purchased with Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds By Joanna Putman for Police1 | Police1.com PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Improving Police Critical Aid for Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Act, a [...]
Honors are the Red, White and Blue Heart Award; Missouri Medal of Valor; Governor’s Medal; and Public Safety Civilian Partnership Award The Department of Public Safety is accepting nominations for the State of Missouri’s highest awards honoring first responders who took heroic actions beyond the call of duty in 2025. [...]
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), preliminarily, 97 U. S. law enforcement officers were killed and/or died in the line of duty in 2025. While any one officer losing their life is a tragedy, this significant decrease from previous years bears discussion, inspection, and examination on many levels. [...]
The Missouri Department of Public Safety has been notified that the State of Missouri has been awarded $14.24 million in federal funding to strengthen security for FIFA World Cup events in the Kansas City region. The funding is through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems [...]
Few concepts in law enforcement generate more commentary — or more second-guessing — than reasonable suspicion. Officers know it’s less than probable cause but also more than just a gut feeling. In the middle of a real-world encounter, though, that line can feel razor thin. And when it comes [...]
Cannibalism inside policing is quietly tearing down officers, undermining accountability and weakening the profession from within By Chief Jeremy Story for Police1.com We often treat each other worse than our harshest critics do. I’ve been guilty of it myself over the years, but too often we look for the bad [...]
By Coach Tony Blauer “Use of force should never look emotional. It should simply be “use of force.” I have studied violence, fear, and aggression for 40+ years. During that period, I have studied actual footage and used that footage to design and conduct thousands of very realistic scenarios. [...]
Court holds an officer’s view through a motel curtain gap was not a Fourth Amendment search, clarifying curtilage and expectation of privacy By Ken Wallentine for Police1.com UNITED STATES V. WATKINS, 2025 WL 2907585 (10th Cir. 2025) Most of us have stayed in a motel where the curtains on [...]
By Inspector Chris Butler (ret.) for Calibre Press | calibrepress.com Part 2 of a 2-part series Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this series, trainer Chris Butler shared in-depth explanations of the characteristics and differences between two types of aggression—“Primal” aggression which is easy to recognize and “Cognitive” aggression, which surfaces without [...]
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