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.
The latest victory has implications for officers, victims and children seeking the protection of domestic violence restraining orders
Jim and Doug sit down with author Alex Gerould to discuss how “The Valley of the Shadow of Death” came to be and what lessons it offers for readers
James Emerson, Chair of the IACP Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee, offers tips on how PDs can handle vast volumes of digital evidence
William Bratton said Monday that people captured on video appearing to interfere with arrests are making it harder to apprehend suspects and should stop meddling
23-year-old Cornelius Crawford and 19-year-old Johnathan Rosa were arraigned early Tuesday on charges including murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, robbery, aggravated assault and sexual assault
The officer believes someone might have been trying to get revenge on him for his 25 years as a cop
Maui mayoral candidate Beau Hawkes executed a face plant in the street while attempting to elude an officer in an episode that went viral
The images that emerged of Jah-miel Cuffee’s arrest shows him pinned on the pavement by other officers
Daniel Bryan chased two burglary suspects he saw exiting his Phoenix home last week and subdued one until officers arrived
The manhunt for two suspects in a fatal carjacking is on hold as detectives question two men believed to have information
Officers who tried to talk a man out of the river were visibly shaken Saturday when it became apparent the man drowned
49-year-old Richard Plotts was arraigned late Saturday at his hospital bedside after emerging from sedation
More than $100,000 in rewards is being offered for the suspects’ capture
Command staff in some of the city’s stations may have artificially inflated the number of officers they had on patrol to comply with department regulations
Gabriel Ortega, 57, was inside a McDonald’s June 18, his birthday, when he saw another man yelling at a small child
Roger Ray Ireland, 28, saw his wanted poster on the department’s page on July 23
Police are investigating an officer’s use of force after cell phone video of a confrontation at a baseball game went viral
Officer Jeffrey Westerfield was killed as he sat in his patrol car July 6
An 80-year-old man who came home to find two burglars said he shot and killed one of them despite her pleas that she was pregnant
25-year-old Escondido police officer was shot to death by her husband after a confrontation in their home
A man who authorities say fatally shot a caseworker at a hospital complex near Philadelphia and was then shot by his psychiatrist remains in critical condition
A doctor who was grazed by gunfire from a patient in his office Thursday helped stop him by returning fire with his own weapon and severely injuring him
The city of Albuquerque has agreed to let both a court and an independent monitor oversee reform of its troubled police department
Prosecutors in Central California have obtained an arrest warrant for a tuberculosis patient who they say is contagious and has refused treatment
Gun was used to kill Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier while the Tsarnaevs were being sought
The cellphone video shows a police officer with an arm around the suspect’s neck as he struggles to arrest him
Police say the men broke in early Sunday and left a trail of red peppers on the beach
The execution of 55-year-old Joseph Rudolph Wood took so long that his lawyers had time to file an emergency appeal while it was ongoing
Analysis of the first six months of enforcement under new marijuana laws finds homeless people and African-American males are most likely to be ticketed for public pot use
Craigslist is becoming a popular place for criminals to lurk, so South Florida police agencies are opening their doors to online buyers and sellers
Several witnesses called police after seeing Elissa Alvarez, 20, and Jose Caballero, 39, having sex on a sheet right in front of beach goers
Why aren’t government lawyers explaining there are lawful exemptions to disclosing this technology?
Police were searching Moreno Valley late Tuesday for one or two suspects after a deputy responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call was injured
