Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Merced Police Department patrol vehicle. Merced Sun-Star file image. (Andrew Kuhn/akuhn@mercedsun-star.com) The Merced Police ...

The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars ...

COATESVILLE — It’s dark, late at night, you’ve been pulled over by police while driving, and you’re nervous. The officer looks a bit nervous, too. There is an easy way to cut some of that tension in ...

The Merced Police Department conducted 6,455 stops in 2024 — almost double from the previous year. The figures come from the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board’s stop dataset, which compiles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modesto Police officer Randy Raduechel cites a driver for speeding on McHenry Avenue in Modesto, Calif., on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Modesto Police officer Randy Raduechel cites a driver for speeding on McHenry Avenue in Modesto, Calif., on Thursday, May 5, 2022. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com The Modesto Police Department ...