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"The parents of an 8-year-old South Dakota girl want the police officer who stunned their daughter with a Taser disciplined, but the police chief said Wednesday that the officer acted properly and may have saved the little girl's life."

The officer could of handled this problem better, but he the right thing.

First why would an 8 year old girl be suicidal but regardless the officer did the right thing so they can figure out what the problem is

The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city's police chief making racist comments. "I had to do this," he told CNN affiliate KOIN, but he said the aftermath hasn't been easy. "I've received death threats, a tire flattened with a nail on my driveway," he said.

The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city's police chief making racist comments. "I had to do this," he told CNN affiliate KOIN, but he said the aftermath hasn't been easy. "I've received death threats, a tire flattened with a nail on my driveway," he said.

The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city's police chief making racist comments. "I had to do this," he told CNN affiliate KOIN, but he said the aftermath hasn't been easy. "I've received death threats, a tire flattened with a nail on my driveway," he said.

"The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year - according to a Washington Post database tracking all shootings death at the hands of police this year."

"Delivered like a well-placed baton blow, the report states that the Chicago Police Department's "own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color.""

"more than a third featured clauses allowing - and often mandating - the destruction of records of civilian complaints, departmental investigations, or disciplinary actions after a negotiated period of time. The review also found that 30% of the 67 leaked police contracts, which were struck between cities and police unions, included provisions barring public access to records of past civilian complaints, departmental investigations, and disciplinary actions. Samuel Walker, a professor in criminology at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, said there was "no justification" for the cleansing of officers' records, which could contain details of their use of force against civilians."

Police seized more than 300 marijuana plants out of homes in Omaha after a months-long investigation, according to police. The plants were taken from homes on Lafayette Avenue and North 75th Street, police said. Bryan and Corey Murta and Timothy White were all arrested on drug charges and criminal conspiracy.

Haha, sucks for them. Shouldn't be doing that stupid of a thing anyways.

Their growing may have worked, but they shouldn't have done it or in one place.

"A Dubai police spokesperson told the 7 Days newspaper that custom-made software will allow the officers' Glass to sync with a database of faces. That way if police officers encounter wanted crooks, their eyewear can alert them."

"Researchers from Florida Atlantic University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso, found that despite increases in violent crimes, the hazards of policing has dramatically declined since 1970 with a 75 percent drop in police officer line-of-duty deaths. The study also refutes the theory of "war on cops," following the Ferguson effect and Michael Brown's death in August 2014, and finds no evidence to support those claims. "

(CNN) -- Even for stone-faced, seen-it-all-before officers, the act that took place at a police lieutenant's Las Vegas home Monday was deeply distressing. The 52-year-old lawman, police said, killed his wife and child, called 911 to say he was burning his house down and warned he would take the life of anyone who tried to stop him.

it's sad how people could take the lives of others and then your self but it's really sad that he did what he did and the way he did it.

What happened that forced him to snap though?

"Edward Nero, the second Baltimore police officer to stand trial in the Freddie Gray case, was found not guilty of all charges in connection with Gray's death in 2015. Nero, 30, was charged with second-degree intentional assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office for his actions the day Gray, 25, suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody."

"As many as 100 of the city's 1,500 patrol officers are being assigned a camera after a judge set aside the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's (BPPA) edict that its union members not wear them until the demand is included in the union membership's contract."

"Tulsa police shooting: 5 discrepancies from Terence Crutcher's death"

"The Los Angeles Police Department says it is investigating after an officer fatally shot a black man following a foot chase."

"Police officers feel their jobs are now tougher and tensions have been heightened by high-profile fatal encounters between law enforcement and African Americans, a new survey has found."

A video showing a Hawthorne police officer fatally shooting a dog is drawing outrage on the Internet, and its owner claims he was targeted because of pending claims against the department. The shooting Sunday occurred after a standoff between police and armed robbery suspects near the intersection of 137th Street and Jefferson Avenue.

I watched this video its so sad how they don't just call animal control to sedate the dog but instead they just shoot it

It's much more than just a game of good cop/bad cop. Some police officers are very serious about helping save animals while they're on duty (and off duty, too, of course). Police Officer Jon Boyer in Baltimore got more than his 15 minutes of fame when a photo of him cuddling a kitten he saved went viral.

"Now, some police departments are using miniaturized video cameras and their microphones to capture, in full detail, officers' interactions with civilians. The cameras are so small that they can be attached to a collar, a cap or even to the side of an officer's sunglasses. High-capacity battery packs can last for an extended shift. And all of the videos are uploaded automatically to a central server that serves as a kind of digital evidence locker."

France's interior minister says prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation of two Paris police officers in connection with the suspected rape of a Canadian tourist inside police headquarters.

"The protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, want justice for the unarmed black teenager shot and killed there by a police officer. But the protests also reflect broader patterns of racial injustice across the country, from chronic police violence and abuse against black men to the persistent economic and social exclusion of communities of color."