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We would do well to study history before we repeat it
Doug and Jim also offer lessons from law enforcement’s handling of Super Bowl 50 that agencies can use when preparing for their own large scale event
What are your tips for ensuring a suspect in restraints doesn’t escape?
Preparing for combat with one or more Jihadist extremists expecting to die while carrying out his/their attacks is the biggest problem facing law enforcement
“They stuck to their training. They knew they had a job to do, and they did a great job.”
Only in Stephen King novels does the tractor actually turn on the farmer and try to kill him, but we run toward the shots — it’s what crime fighters do
The department has released 68 seconds of surveillance video from the shooting
Like the magic eight ball sometimes says, all ‘signs point to yes’
“He was a good officer who was liked by everyone and did a good job”
The National Transportation Safety Administration attributes 10 percent of all fatal accidents to driver distraction, and a squad car cockpit is cluttered with distractions
Investigators believe that 39-year-old Hydra Lacy Jr. is the gunman who opened fire from the attic, killing two cops and wounding a U.S. Marshal
Investigators are trying to locate the registered owner of the vehicle driven by the suspect, David Anthony Durham
The suspect remained barricaded inside the house where the shooting happened, Police Chief Chuck Harmon said
Detroit precincts don’t have metal detectors and the front desks are not fitted with Plexiglas-type shields
The gunman who walked into the precinct on Sunday afternoon with a pistol grip shotgun and opened fire is now dead
The root of the word ‘conspire’ means literally ‘to breathe together’
Adults with a permit can carry a concealed handgun in the state Capitol, but not on a bus or in a school
“That’s like asking a firefighter to go into a burning building without turnout gear on”
The two officers were reportedly working with a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force at the time of the shooting
Man accused of threatening to kill a police officer said in court that he was drunk at the time, and that he really is ‘not a troublemaker’
Nine schools with about 9,000 students were locked down as more than 350 police officers searched for the gunman
The two officers were reportedly working with a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force at the time of the shooting
Gun-control advocates say the Tucson shootings have altered the political atmosphere surrounding the debate
Officer Larry Nehasil was a 20-year veteran of the Livonia Police Department
Safariland, Point Blank Solutions, and GH Armor Systems are set to showcase new vests designed to help save the lives of our nation’s law enforcers