SAN JOSE — When Long Pham visited Vietnam in 2011, he was taken aback to see a local police officer commit an abuse of power. The incident sparked his passion for law enforcement and community service, San Jose police acting Chief Paul Joseph said Monday as he remembered Pham at a news conference. Authorities on Monday identified Pham as the community service officer killed by a driver allegedly under the influence Saturday night when the driver struck a parked police vehicle as the officer he...
A federal appellate court has revived an excessive force lawsuit over the 2019 shooting death of a man by a San Jose police officer who feared the man was heading to a school with a gun that later...
A San Jose police officer has been charged with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend during a pair of alleged domestic violence incidents from the past year, and with recklessly firing his service we...
The former executive director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association has signaled her intent to admit guilt in a scandal in which she is accused of illegally trafficking opioids by using the...
San Jose police requested the public’s assistance in identifying suspects in two homicide cases that are several years old, according to a news release this week. The cold case profiles have been added to SJPD’s new “San Jose’s Most Wanted” Facebook and Instagram pages with the goal of generating leads and bringing closure to the victims’ families, police said. The first homicide was committed on November 20, 2020: Shortly after 5 p.m., officers arrived at the 2200 block of Orlando Drive in San Jose’s Eastside to respond to report ...
Incensed by the releases of defendants charged in recent attacks on police officers, San Jose's police union is calling on prosecutors to move cases away from a Superior Court judge.
San Jose police reported arresting 46 people with outstanding warrants for suspected sexual assault crimes.
San Jose police said they were forced to shoot a suspect who was allegedly firing out of a window at a shopping plaza – he and another victim were taken to the hospital.
A federal appellate court has rejected qualified immunity for a San Jose police officer who infamously shot an activist in the groin with a projectile during George Floyd protests downtown four yea...
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