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.
Once the first responders leave the scene, a walk-through with the OFK-8000a can provide a forensic team with a starting point and illumination for complex photography needs
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
The Supreme Court recently ruled that if an officer makes an illegal stop and then discovers an arrest warrant, the stop and its fruit will not be excluded in court
Nationally, the average age at which DMST victims are introduced into prostitution is 13 years old
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people aboard disappeared March 8
Predictive analysis — the digital dissection of police data to identify likely offenses, their locations and even perpetrators — may sound like a concept straight out of the science fiction film “Minority Report”
Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man’s home after members of a tree removal crew he’d told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun
What’s reasonable and unreasonable when it comes to cell phone searches and privacy is often the sticky wicket cops find themselves in — enter the Supreme Court
A case against one of the two men charged in the fatal shooting of Norfolk police officer Victor Decker was dropped this morning
Police in South Carolina are looking for a suspect who apparently doesn’t tolerate bad manners
League started after members of the Police Department approached New Haven Family Alliance street outreach workers and other groups about ways to reduce violence
Fire Chief Andy Martin and his brother Tommy Martin were arrested Feb. 14 after deputies allege both men assaulted sheriffs at the scene of a crash
The man Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts termed “Public Enemy No. 1" turned himself in at police headquarters Sunday, ending a two-day manhunt
Rapper Tyler, The Creator, was arrested Saturday for allegedly inciting a riot during a show at the South By Southwest music festival
For disobeying the order, Richard Masten was found in contempt of court Friday by Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Victoria R. Brennan
A teenage father in Northern California is under arrest after police say he bit the nose off his 1-month-old son because he was frustrated with the infant’s crying
Steven Brian Keith, 58, died about 7 hours after he was stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint, EMTs assumed he was faking a seizure
Somebody approached his personal vehicle and opened fire, hitting him several times in the upper body
Digging through debris will be vital to finding any survivors, recovering remains and learning what caused the deadly Harlem explosion
Police have arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who allegedly threatened to shoot a random pedestrian if his Twitter post was retweeted a hundred times
Chief says the incident, which left two people dead and nearly two dozen injured, would have happened even if the officer declined to pursue the suspect
Suspect was in a hurry to sell his stash of Percocet pills because he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for a 2012 drug case
A New York man flew an aerial drone over the scene of a building collapse caused by an explosion in Harlem on Wednesday
FBI believes a Border Patrol agent found dead in his Texas home is responsible for the kidnapping and assault of three women who were in the country illegally
Suspect is accused of mailing a homemade bomb to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last April
Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers
A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades at the South By Southwest festival in Austin
Deputy shot a man during a traffic stop after mistaking his cane for a shotgun
Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, brought a Mossberg 500 series pump-action shotgun to a Md. mall, killing 2 then himself
Firefighters were arrested Feb. 14 after deputies allege both men assaulted Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood and a sheriff’s captain at the scene of a crash
New York City so far this year has recorded a 10-day stretch with no slayings and a 24-hour period without even a nonfatal shooting, stabbing or slashing
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