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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.

Take the time to develop a relationship with the doctors at the hospitals in your jurisdiction — it will pay off when you close more cases successfully
Increase patrol officers’ productivity and enhance your agency’s investigative reach using LPR cameras and hot list data
A reliable communication network can provide responders with more info on demand
When the officer at the desk offered assistance, the suspect immediately spit in his face
The number of stop and frisks by the NYPD continued to plummet in the fourth quarter of 2013, dropping by over 40 percent from the previous quarter
As social media videos show, Oakland’s illegal sideshow scene runs rife with a lack of respect for life or the police
As a bank manager, Jonathan Scott Pine knew success, but the desire to stop wrongdoing led him to switch careers
Judge cited a lack of progress in completing a decade-old reform drive from official overseeing the Oakland Police Department
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday dropped nine counts of conspiracy and fraud against the 60-year-old former president of the National Border Patrol Council
Officer was examining a friend’s gun when the gun went off
A Santa Ana detective testified Monday that she posed as an inmate, going undercover into the jail cell of a defendant in a high-profile beating case
Two teenage boys wanted to make a deal with the devil when they sexually assaulted and killed a 15-year-old suburban Houston girl in a satanic ritual
Police arrested the homeless man who spent the night sleeping in the back of a patrol car and then couldn’t get out
Through the Pinterest online bulletin board, police officers are uploading photos of recovered goods
FHP Trooper Donna Jane Watts was on routine patrol early one morning when a Miami police car whizzed past at speeds that would eventually top 120 mph
The Md. officer discovered the next morning that his trunk had been broken into and a department issued Colt 223 rifle, and a Sig Sauer SRT 40 caliber service weapon were missing
Efforts to detect surveillance are a critical means of spotting lone wolves during the target selection and planning stage
Dallas Police Chief David Brown wants police officers to operate with social media in mind
Pinecrest Officer Ana Carrasco claims that she didn’t help the victims because her training prevented her from moving the bodies
‘Operation Angry Birds’ simultaneously targeted locations in Queens, Brooklyn and Ulster County
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for suspect will be in court for the first time since U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty
Police seized 1K pot plants as well as 27 weapons, including grenade launchers, sawed-off shotguns, rifles and 9,000 rounds of ammo from former ‘McGruff’ actor
Director of public safety says accounts that officer had been shot during an exchange of gunfire with burglars untrue
Michael Elliot, who was discovered missing during an inmate count at the Ionia Correctional Facility, was arrested Monday, driving a stolen vehicle
Police have arrested a man and a woman accused of driving off in the ambulance around 3 a.m. Saturday while it was parked outside a medical center
From laptops and smart phones to body cameras and increased firepower, policing has transformed within a generation
Kevin Wayne Quick, 45, of Rockfish, Va. is now confirmed dead, as state police investigate the circumstances of this case
The step-sister of the baby’s mother had pretended to be pregnant and stole the infant from his bassinet
An officer checking along an interstate in Iowa found the nearly week-old infant on Friday
A 20-year-old man upset over a speeding ticket from a state trooper turned to Twitter to threaten to kill the trooper and other officers
The pop star was charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and driving with an invalid license
Office will investigate a teenager’s claim that a female officer seriously injured his genitals during a stop-and-frisk search last month
Curtis Reeves, 71, is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 43-year-old Chad Oulson