The suspect made remarks implicating himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished in SoHo on his way to school and who is believed to have been killed, the police said on Thursday.

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City Room: Man Claims Role in Disappearance of Etan Patz, Police Say

Scotland Yard calls in the police watchdog to review fresh allegations of corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.

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New probe on Lawrence corruption

The man tasked with leading the police department in Sanford, Florida, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin killing said communities should “take a good, hard look at who is selected,” for neighborhood watch programs.

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Sanford chief’s goal: Resolve conflict

A tactic being used in Lower Manhattan has drawn the attention of the police, but officers have not tried to dislodge demonstrators.

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Evicted From Park, Occupy Protesters Take to the Sidewalks

Senior Scotland Yard staff showed poor judgement in their relationship with ex-News of the World executive Neil Wallis, the police watchdog says.

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Met criticised over Wallis role

Atlanta police have launched an internal investigation into filmmaker Tyler Perry's claim he was racially profiled by two white officers who pulled his car over, the police department said.

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NBC has completed its investigation into the mishandling of the police dispatcher’s conversation with George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case . And the process ends with a finding of error, plus an apology. Here is the statement just issued by the network: Read full article > >

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NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up

The attorney for Trayvon Martin’s parents asked the Justice Department on Monday to investigate allegations that relatives of the man who shot Martin met with law enforcement officials at the police department hours after the shooting. Read full article > >

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Martin family’s attorney seeks Justice Dept. investigation into police actions after shooting

The Metropolitan Police has supported calls for changes to the law to allow more details to be revealed in cases where the police have shot people.

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VIDEO: Reform call over police death cases

Critics have compared the police union’s program to a bounty system that promotes and legitimizes brutality.

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Albuquerque Mayor Fights Police Union Pay for Shootings

A man, 18, who was being chased by the police, was killed in his family’s home in the Bronx.

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Bronx 18-Year-Old Fatally Shot By an Officer After a Chase

The body parts — a head, hands and feet likely belonging to the same person — offered ghastly evidence of a killing that the police said must have occurred within the last few days.

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Body Parts Found in Los Angeles’ Bronson Canyon

A court in the United States will be asked later to rule that a confidential Troubles archive should not be handed over to the police in Northern Ireland.

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US court hears IRA tape challenge

A man arrested Tuesday has confessed to attacks in Queens and on Long Island on New Year’s Day, the police said.

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Firebomber Picked Targets to Settle Scores, N.Y.C. Police Say

Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, newly-released National Archives files show.

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Thatcher ‘debated arming police’