Federal law enforcement
The Federal Law Enforcement topic area addresses all crime-fighting agencies at the national and federal level. This section will provide you with the latest news, information and developments across the country and in Washington.
This dramatized take on a real case offers valuable reminders about radicalization, threat patterns and investigative blind spots
Understanding the protective protocols and legal standards that shaped agents’ response during a high-security DHS event
What does it take to become a police officer? A veteran officer breaks down the rigorous process to land the job
Albuquerque Police Officers Association President Joey Sigala said that APD officers have already been cleared criminally and internally
A 20-month law enforcement effort called Operation Delego has led to child porn charges for 72 people, according to documents unsealed in Shreveport (La.)
The “Ammonium Nitrate Security Program” would require those who purchase, sell or transfer at least 25 pounds of the chemical in the U.S. to register with the government so that they may be screened
An FBI dive team recovered nearly 7.5 tons of cocaine in a semi-submersible craft which had sunk off the coast of Honduras near the Nicaraguan border
Group VII was supposed to be leading the way with operation ‘Fast and Furious’
Some estimates show that Congress codifies more than 50 new criminal offenses a year — who do you figure is going to most often hear about that from our society’s malcontents and miscreants?
Officer’s job change on hold due to a shooting probe
Justice officials say they’ve traveled to sometimes remote areas to hear from tribal leaders
Federal law enforcement can be divided into eight primary divisions
Emigdio Preciado pleaded guilty to assault on a peace officer
San Diego police are leading the investigation of the incident in which a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican man who was allegedly trying to sneak across the border
After an international manhunt, the FBI caught 81-year-old James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig at an apartment near Los Angeles
Policy directs ICE officers to use ‘appropriate discretion’ to make sure victims and witnesses to crimes are not put into deportation proceedings
A multi-agency law enforcement team raided the camp with air support from the Oregon Army National Guard on U.S. Forest Service land
In the post 9/11 world, we now know if active shooters or terrorists take over a hotel, public event, or school, they probably have no interest in escape
Union Pacific spends $3.6 million a year on its own police officers and has spent another $72.5 million supporting federal efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border
Court papers call men in NYC bomb plot ‘ticking time bombs’
The search for the seven-year-old has cost more than $1.4 million
Ruling opens door for states, Congress to mandate verification
Woman yells that a TSA officer “just molested” her in Phoenix airport
Special Agent Timothy S. Briggs suffered a fatal heart attack on May 31
The Fair Sentencing Act reduces penalties for crack cocaine offenses in order to reduce the disparity with powder cocaine penalties
The lawsuit against John Ashcroft, attorney general from 2001 to 2005, stemmed from comments he made shortly after 9/11 that the government would preventively detain people suspected of terrorist ties
Alleged abuses include harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force
The roundup of arrestees began Tuesday morning and was the result of a long-term undercover probe by the FBI, the IRS, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
Tucson sector agents patrol every area surrounding a pond that is home to the endangered desert pupfish
The connection between criminal activity — whether one might consider it ‘organized’ or not — and terrorist organizations has history that continues to this very day
The bureau’s preliminary statistics for 2010 are based on information from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies
Boss of Philadelphia mob, his alleged lieutenant and 11 others hit with federal racketeering and gambling charges Monday
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