Crime
The Heritage Foundation’s report shows encouraging evidence that law enforcement leaders are acknowledging the challenges of policing today
Technology provides cops with real-time analysis to inform crime reduction strategies specific to their communities
Using philosophies similar to those of the NTSB, approximately 200 Domestic Violence Fatality Review teams have been formed since the 1990s
Raped as an 8-year-old by her then-stepfather, a woman kept the secret from her family for nearly a decade until she drafted a college application essay
South Carolina’s longest-serving sheriff has been indicted on bribery charges
Off-duty officer was a 16-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department
Department became one of the first agencies in the country to distribute a theft-deterring chemical that leaves DNA-like “signatures” on property
Dispatcher has resigned after failing to relay key information to officers responding to a woman who was killed 12 minutes into a call
A woman was playing video games with a web cam when the people she was playing with noticed she was being robbed
The O.J. Simpson murder trial cast a harsh light on police and forensic work, and gave law enforcement a textbook example of what not to do
Recently released convict was charged in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and critical wounding of a 7-year-old girl in an elevator
Girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please a mythological creature they learned about online
Woman received a Facebook friend notification and recognized the sender as the man who robbed her
An 89-year-old storeowner used a golf club to fight-off a robbery suspect who was armed with a sword Sunday morning
Sonja Gardner told officers she decided to drown her daughters in the bathtub after they asked her for snacks
Authorities blame many of the carjackings, ironically, on improvements in vehicle security
Suspect stole a sub and cash from a tip jar after trying unsuccessfully to open register
Her mother’s ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to marry him and fathered her child
71-year-old siblings were headed home April 5 when a man followed them into their apartment building
Some officers are questioning the new directive — suggesting there are bigger issues to focus on
NYPD began encouraging pharmacies to use dummy pill bottles fit with tracking devices in 2013
Surveillance video shows girlfriend entering storage unit eight times on the day officer died
31-year-old man has been arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters while drunk to file an accident report
Police say they used social media to track a suspected kidnapper from the San Francisco Bay Area to a hotel-casino in northern Nevada
Driver is the father of a person of interest in the shooting that took place May 7
Police recorded 14,261 stops from Jan. 1 to March 31, compared with 99,788 in the same period of 2013
Voters will likely get to weigh in on whether Calif. should treat most nonviolent crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies
Instead of fleeing, the robbers stuck around and pumped gas, offering a discount to those who paid cash
Cornealious “Mike” Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught
Officer shot armed suspect Saturday after he tried to rob the officer of his cell phone
Squad was forced to cancel a tournament championship game after someone made off with its jerseys, gloves and bats
Students broke into their high school overnight — urinating in hallways, greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs to lockers
A mother out with her two children became the victim of would-be purse snatchers, but an armed good Samaritan came to the rescue
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