HOUSTON Welcome to Carl Black's world. He's a Houston police officer and when he walks into a restaurant or a room, he gets noticed. It's the story of the man who wears the badge number 666. Black ...

Lawrence Police Department vehicles are pictured during the University of Kansas Homecoming Parade in this file photo from Sept. 27, 2018. As members of the public nationwide have viewed law ...

Houston Police Officer Carl Black still remembers getting ready to fight the hulking 6-foot-6, 280-pound thug who was threatening him about 17 years ago. The suspect readied to attack as he ripped off ...

“What’s your badge number?” the person behind the camera asked a Seattle police sergeant at a civil rights protest in mid-August. "6645," the officer replied. With just a number, KUOW reporter Liz ...

Derek Chauvin's police badge will be destroyed, and his badge number — 1087 — will never be assigned to another Minneapolis police officer, officials said Thursday. Chauvin, the former cop serving a ...

A Mesa police union is complaining that new badges issued to officers have a numbering system that is confusing and makes it difficult for the public to identify an officer. A Mesa police union is ...

His father, Wayne Leon, an officer with the Cleveland Police Department, was shot and killed in 2000 when Justin was just five years old. Nineteen years later, Justin paid homage to his dad, being ...

Last week, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong pointed out that Twitter is testing a new profile badge for people who have verified their phone numbers. Earlier this month, app sleuth Nima Owji also ...

Why wait for the blue check mark when you can get a shield with ‘verified phone number’ right above your following count. And since you can have ten different accounts under one phone number, that is ...