Methuen, Mass. Police Capt. Randy Haggar has been named the city’s new Director of Emergency Management.

After demonstrations across France throughout the past week against the country's "Global Security Law," the French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party has acknowledged this week that they promise to change the wording of the proposed security law. The law includes controversial verbiage that protesters say would expand law enforcement and the country's right to monitor citizens.

William Babb has been named the new chief of police and director of security at Virginia Tech University.

The FBI reported that 106 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2018, an increase from 94 officers who died a year earlier.

A new report says shooting deaths of law enforcement officers spiked in the first half of 2016 compared to last year.