By PoliceOne Staff DAVIS, Calif. — Two campus police officers were placed on leave after using OC spray during a student protest, university officials said. After a video circulated Friday showing an officer spray a group, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi was called to resign, according to the LA…
Watch: Police spoof video angers Calif. officials
By PoliceOne Staff WEST COVINA, Calif. — A viral video spoofing police officers in West Covina, Calif., is being called an "asinine joke" by city officials according to KTLA. The video makes light of police harassment by depicting five men dressed as police officers and driving two patrol cars with…
Calif. police try to catch serial toilet-clogger
Author: The Force Science Research Center By Casey Jay San Jose Mercury News CAMPBELL, Calif. — Criminal investigations often take Campbell police officers to some interesting places, but a recent operation that literally led their work down the toilet might just be one of the strangest. On Oct. 31, Campbell…
Calif. cops move to disband campus ‘Occupy’ camp
BERKELEY, Calif. — Dozens of police in riot gear confronted anti-Wall Street protesters at the University of California at Berkeley as the demonstrators tried to establish an encampment on campus. Television news footage from outside the university’s main administration building late Wednesday night showed officers pulling people off the steps…
Feds probe Calif. law enforcement weapon sales
By Don Thompson Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal agents issued search warrants and expect to file weapons charges against law enforcement officers from several Sacramento-area agencies, authorities said Friday. The probe focuses on peace officers selling weapons that most civilians cannot legally buy and sell. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department…
Federal grant will pay for 25 Calif. officers
By Matthai Kuruvila The San Francisco Chronicle OAKLAND, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Oakland a $10.7 million grant that will enable the city to hire 25 police officers for three years, bolstering a force that was stripped of dozens of officers last year because of budget…
Calif. pot farmer shot after firing on deputies
Author: Lt. Dan Marcou By Barbara Arrigoni Chico Enterprise-Record BERRY CREEK, Calif. — Authorities are investigating an officer’s shooting early Tuesday morning of a man tending an illegal marijuana grow site on Feather Ridge Way in Berry Creek, about 20 miles northeast of Oroville. At the scene around 7 a.m.,…
Calif. Hells Angel boss dead in Nev. casino shootout
By Scot Sonner Associated Press SPARKS, Nev. — The city canceled its part in an annual multi-city motorcycle festival on Saturday and neighboring Reno increased police patrol amid fears of retaliation over the shooting death of a prominent Hells Angels boss by a rival gang. Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew, the 51-year-old…
Police audio key part of murder charges against Calif. officer
Associated Press LOS ANGELES — As Fullerton police Officer Manuel Ramos approached a homeless man at a bus stop in July, he did what members of his department have been doing for a decade. He clicked on an audio recorder normally used to capture witness statements and exonerate officers accused…
Police detonate 8 explosives found in Calif. home
Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — A bomb squad has detonated a cache of explosives found in a California home after authorities say a San Jose man, accused by a neighbor of shooting off guns in his backyard, was arrested on a suspicion of making criminal threats. The discovery of…