The town’s police chief, Elise Chard, said recent public remarks Homeland Security officials criticizing her department “appears to be an attempt to shift the blame onto a hard-working local law enforcement agency that has done its job.

ICE says that Jon Luke Evans is in the US illegally, and broke the law when he tried to purchase a gun. But the Old Orchard Beach police chief says Evans' legal status was verified by the federal Department of Homeland Security.

Two Springfield police officers were stabbed in a Wednesday afternoon encounter with a person armed with two knives in the Gateway neighborhood before the suspect was shot and killed, according to Springfield police.

Mamdani has faced backlash over his past comments critical of the NYPD following the city’s deadliest mass shooting in 25 years, where four people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed in Midtown Manhattan.