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.
With advances in communication, transportation and information technology, terrorist attacks don’t have to be focused on major cities for visibility and effect
This disruptive technology can help solve crime and convict perpetrators
Criminals are using 3D printing to make guns, reproduce keys and manufacture illegal drugs
A growing body of research suggests that intractable circumstances of economics, culture and geography have more to do with shootings by police than the race of the officers
Baby was born healthy two months after the incident
Clayton Lockett’s troubled execution on April 29 prompted Gov. Mary Fallin to halt all upcoming executions until a review she’d ordered was completed.
Investigation will look at department practices over the past few years, including patterns of stops, arrests and use of force, as well as the training officers receive
Daniel Pinedo Velapatino, 21, was running from police after leading officers on a wild pursuit, smashing into cars and a police cruiser
23-year-old Evan Casey Bennett murdered 2 security guards before killing his stepfather and shooting an officer 3 times outside a police headquarters
Wilbur and Anisa Mobley were found shot to death early Wednesday
Lawyer has said his client did nothing wrong and responded to an escalating situation the officers created
The shootings Tuesday afternoon took place in two homes in a middle class neighborhood
The police reports say that immediately after the shooting, the girl said she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder
The juvenile detention center where 30 teens escaped under a fence has a long history of violence, allegations of sexual abuse and previous efforts to break out
Six officers opened fire on 30-year-old Jose Walter Garza after arriving on-scene
The “bread and butter” use for the technology is crime scene and accident scene reconstruction
A man fired shots into a police headquarters and struck an officer three times Monday after killing his stepfather earlier that night
Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement and a thousand miles of perception
Town now faces a scandal following allegations that the town victimizes motorists to turn a profit
Police caught up with some walking along roads or coming out of the woods
Police say at least 40 rounds were fired during a gun battle outside a Birmingham, Alabama, motorcycle club
The ensuing standoff with the wounded suspect led to a long Labor Day closure of the freeway
Man’s death was ruled a homicide on Friday by the city medical examiner’s office, which cited physical restraint by police as a factor, along with severe intoxication from the hallucinogenic drug PCP, heart disease and obesity
45-year-old was high on PCP and had been acting erratic in a taxi when officers responding to a 911 call restrained him. He was headed to a hospital when he went into cardiac arrest and died
A man accused of fleeing from a crash that killed his wife has been taken into custody with the help of a K-9
Three occupants of the two vehicles not related to the pursuit were injured and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries
The arrest of Christopher Lollie, 28, which Lollie video-recorded on his cellphone, has drawn national attention
St. Paul police responded Thursday to criticism over officers’ interaction with a man, including police use of a TASER, saying a video doesn’t tell the whole story
16-year-old slipped out of his handcuffs and shot himself and an officer during transport to a juvenile center
Officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man who had just killed another man early Wednesday
Federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after a fatal police shooting
Man is facing charges of impersonating a police officer for driving around a Maserati painted to resemble a police cruiser