Investigations
The Investigations topic area furnishes cops with the latest news, information and strategies used in closing a case and putting bad guys behind bars. This touches on everything that happens between the suspect’s crimes to the final conviction.
Even the smallest departments can conduct basic crime analysis and evaluation of the impact of police operations
Find out how powerful software programs can provide actionable intelligence that helps law enforcement agencies solve, reduce and even prevent crime
Some may shudder at the words “consent to search.” But hear me out
Despite Dick Wolf’s portrayal of cops and prosecutors who work in lockstep to solve and prosecute crimes, in many cases, this relationship is anything but harmonious
Men carrying assault rifles and wearing military-style gear were detained after a standoff
Seven Chicago police officers should be fired for filing false reports in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014, the police superintendent said Thursday
Police Lt. Victor Gearhart, VP of Baltimore’s police union, sent the email in reference to a group protesting the FOP conference
Police are still trying to identify 33 women whose snapshots were found in Lonnie Franklin Jr.'s home after his arrest
Police arrived to find Arshell Dennis and another man wounded by gunfire
Sgt. Craig Hutchinson was suffering from depression, facing foreclosure on his home and other financial pressures
Gerald Sykes was shot 2 weeks ago when a trooper responded to the wrong home
Investigators are still trying to determine if Sgt. Craig Hutchinson shot himself or if someone else shot him with his gun
Donnell Thompson was shot at close range by a deputy searching for suspects in a car chase and shootout in Compton
An unknown assailant shot Calvin Riley on Saturday night at Aquatic Park near Ghiradelli Square
The robbery suspect charged the officer with a knife as the policeman was getting out of his cruiser
Two men accused of using pirated computer software to steal more than 100 cars may have exploited an electronic vulnerability to advance auto theft into high-tech crime
Multiple ATF agents responded early Wednesday
A teenager went on a knife rampage through London’s Russell Square, fatally stabbing an American woman and wounding five other people
28-year-old Espen Brungodt was unarmed and offered no resistance when he was arrested at a Portland hotel Wednesday afternoon on federal charges
Investigators have not yet determined whether he killed himself or whether someone took his gun and used it against him
A man immediately opened fire on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, then shot into a patrol car
The man who shot and killed three people was so unfamiliar with his newly purchased AR-15 that he parked his car across the street and read the manual
District attorney said Tuesday there was no indication the shooting was racially motivated, but one suspect told officers he was targeting police
Lee Baca withdrew his guilty plea to lying about efforts to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran and vowed to “set the record straight” at trial
Videos of a fatal police shooting last week suggests violations of departmental policy, Chicago’s police superintendent said Sunday
The city’s police chief said that she has yet to determine if the shooting was similar to recent targeted attacks on LE
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a statement Sunday that his department is working to identify and arrest the person responsible for the shootings
The move came hours after the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Paul O’Neal’s death a homicide
The officers were relieved of their police powers even as the case is still being investigated
The Civil Rights Division will review the local investigation into the March 27 shooting death of Loreal Tsingine
A gunman attacked a gathering of young adults at a suburban Seattle home early Saturday, killing two people at a fire pit before firing more shots from the roof
A police officer says the county’s top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing
Chicago Police have “quite a few questions” after officers fatally shot a man driving a stolen car
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