NEW YORK — A fugitive from upstate New York who taunted police on his Facebook page to ‘catch me if you can. I’m in Brooklyn’ has been arrested. The Daily News says U.S. marshals and NYPD detectives tracked Victor Burgos ...

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ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that will allow police to stop drivers they see texting while driving. Previously, police could only cite a driver for the traffic violation of distracted driving if they were stopped primarily for another offense, such as speeding.

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More than 150 people in Erie and Wyoming counties were charged from Friday through Sunday as part of the state police’s Occupant Safety details and Sobriety Check Points. State police report throughout the weekend ...

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The Emily Good-Rochester Police Department debate continued yesterday at a press conference with Good and supporters from the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Rochester Police Accountability Coalition (RPAC) at the Liberty Pole in downtown Rochester.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on an important privacy issue for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, or only when the suggestive circumstances were orchestrated by the police.

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The City of Rochester has a new mayor but also desperately needs a better public relations team. To go along with the spectacle of mayors - grown men, playing musical chairs - we have political machines choosing school board members as always ...

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Police are allowed to search a residence without a warrant if they believe there is an urgent need to preserve evidence and their conduct did not create the exigency. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with police ...

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Police didn't need a warrant to install a "real-time" tracking device on a drug suspect's vehicle, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming the denial of a motion to suppress. Phoenix police identified the defendant as a suspect in a drug trafficking operation.

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Police didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they entered a locked bedroom in a home they were searching for potential victims of a recent shooting, the California Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a drug conviction.

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The police officer son of a former Greece police chief imprisoned for misconduct is facing his own prison term after being found guilty of passing confidential information to a drug suspect.

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An automatic vehicle door opener will help Trooper Dean E. Nolte and his K-9 partner Nugent in their police work. The door was funded by a donation by Allegany County Judge Terrence M. Parker.

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