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.
Jim and Doug discuss how this kind of “harm reduction strategy” can actually have an adverse effect on public safety
The Long Beach (Calif.) PD takes advantage of increased interoperability and data-sharing to expand its investigative reach with license plate recognition
Witnesses took to Twitter to describe a gunman on the loose
“It’s certainly going to be a black eye for King City,” County Supervisor Simon Salinas said
An LAX police dispatcher who received a call seconds after a gunman opened fire last year didn’t know where to send officers because no one was on the line
Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse
If courts across the land can’t agree, how is the average cop supposed to know what’s okay?
Chief and two officers were removed from duty after being arrested on suspicion of selling or giving away impounded cars of poor residents
A sprawling criminal case accusing more than 100 retired firefighters, police officers, jail guards and others of scamming the Social Security disability system ensnared 28 more people with charges Tuesday
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI reviewed results of a criminal probe by state police
Woman was arrested for misuse of 911 after repeatedly asking dispatchers to send an officer to her home for sex
A southern Ohio coroner is accused in a lawsuit of using deaths as a political pawn in a feud with the local sheriff
Police say suspect became uncooperative when officers questioned him about a possible domestic disturbance
State police are investigating allegations of cheating by more than 30 municipal police officers on annual recertification tests, threatening their careers
The Supreme Court has ruled that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter
The Regional Transit Authority bus driver told police Monday he was standing outside the vehicle when the men shot at him three times
The strategy of adapting the predictive-policing model currently used involves dividing the patrol area into small geographic “boxes” and tracking the number of reported incidents
Las Vegas police were hoping Monday that distributing a security video of a car striking a man in the parking lot of a convenience store would lead to an arrest
Officers and jail guards committed no wrongdoing in the arrest and detention of a Yale University professor who died in a cell
Former chief whose incendiary videos on guns and liberals led to his suspension and departure says his TV show could feature a militia-style group he started
Cash businesses — such as the stores in Colorado and Washington State where sale of marijuana is now legal — are attractive targets for thieves
The death threat against Detroit Police Chief James Craig was made through social media by a gang member who is likely part of a criminal narcotic network
As Mexican troops forced their way into Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s main hideout in Culiacan, the country’s most powerful drug lord sneaked out of the house through an escape tunnel beneath the bathtub
Chief Kenton Rainey suggested that a “few individuals” inside and outside the agency were undermining long-term efforts to improve BART’s reputation
In Memphis, Tenn., alone, there are more than 12,000 untested rape kits going back to the 1980s
The suspect pulled out a weapon and refused police orders to drop it
Chief who gained notoriety for his profanity-laced Internet tirades about the Second Amendment and liberals has left his department
Laurie Nichols was stabbed with a small kitchen knife in her chest, with a large kitchen knife in her abdomen and her neck was cut with a pair of scissors
Police have very little information about what led to the different shooting incidents
A formal tribe leader opened fire at an eviction hearing, then went after victims with a knife
One of the suspects proclaimed K-9 Odin as “awesome!”
