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.
A thorough investigation will set a positive tone for the probation or parole case
Bike patrol units offer a high-visibility, proactive community policing presence that is budget-friendly for any size department
Police work is obviously very dependent on being present out in the public, but cops can do a number of tasks remotely
Mayor sat between his police commissioner and one of the department’s most outspoken critics Thursday, trying to ease tensions with minority communities
U.S. law enforcement can force Microsoft Corp. to turn over emails it stores in Ireland
A suspect in the 2010 killing of agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious, was extradited to the U.S. Thursday
The officer asked the woman if she knew who she was speaking with when she solicited him
An Oakland police officer who was fired after he lobbed a tear-gas canister into a group of people has won his job back through arbitration
July 25 pursuit led to the death of a 21-year-old man
The man left the scene and led officers on a high-speed pursuit
Massachusetts State Police say the ax bounced out of a landscaper’s dump truck
NJ detective was acquitted Wednesday of first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting of a driver during a case of road rage
The police officers once held a suspect over an 18th floor balcony and used a steel bar to beat someone else in the head
Police later shot and killed Cody David Winters and arrested his accomplice, Natasha Galenn Jackson, on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, burglary, kidnapping and other charges
A Mendota Heights police officer was shot in the head and killed during a traffic stop Wednesday
Man broke into the couple’s home through a window and grabbed a Sprite from the refrigerator before falling asleep in the master bedroom
Judge has rejected efforts by police unions to overturn a ruling concluding that stop-and-frisk tactics are sometimes discriminatory
Deputies were called to the residence for a domestic dispute when gunfire was exchanged with one person
One of the nation’s largest forces is faced with defending in court a practice that the federal government says illegally discriminates against women
Dash cam video has been released capturing a driver slamming into a vehicle pulled over to the side of the road during a Texas traffic stop June 20
A man with a concealed carry permit shot at an armed robbery suspect who had stolen items from a cell phone store
Two men were killed and two women were seriously injured Tuesday in a wild Las Vegas crime spree that included a carjacking, two home invasions, a stabbing, a fake hostage situation and a deadly police shooting
Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was in Nogales, Sonora, near the tall, steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico when a Border Patrol agent shot him from Nogales, Arizona in 2012
Deputies broke a car window to arrest a Rock Creek woman who rammed a vehicle, damaging a patrol car and pinning a deputy early Saturday
Having NCIC information at your fingertips is not only crucial for patrol officers’ safety, but it can prove incredibly useful for those street cops to apprehend criminals who are under active investigation
All the subjects involved in an incident have their own idea of what happened based on their observation of what happened
Asking a series of three hypothetical questions many times will result in obtaining the initial admissions of guilt to the commission of a crime
After police trapped the driver between their cars, he refused to exit his vehicle, responding to officers with a “faraway stare”
Police approached a suspicious man on a bicycle early in the morning when the incident occurred
Chief said the officer reported that while attempting to coax the dog back into the house, the dog growled and approached him in a threatening manner
Det. Mario Muniz, 45, was hit in the upper-right chest area by one of Mozdir’s bullets, but it was stopped by his bullet proof vest
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