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.
Exposure to IA will allow a cop to better understand the personnel system, agendas of some citizens, attitudes and mindset of officers, and the thought process of managers
Jim and Doug also offer key tips for making the jump up to the next level in the chain of command and explore how police use social media to solve crimes
An employee of a McDonald’s restaurant was charged with selling heroin in Happy Meals to customers using the coded request “I’d like to order a toy”
Authorities say a New Mexico woman called in a fake report of a gunman near a convenience store to help a friend avoid a traffic ticket over a taillight
New York City’s police commissioner has outlined a new approach to crimefighting that takes attention off the quantity of arrests
Top law enforcement officials argue that tying their hands on information-gathering could render their crime-fighting tools useless
The 22 homicides in Baltimore in 2014 are double the number at this time last year
Police in NC are searching for a man who sprayed a church playground with gunfire
A total of 172 pedestrians were killed in traffic last year in New York City
Eight police officers were injured and six of them were treated at the hospital
All searches that require BART officers to enter homes will now require written approval by a deputy chief in the wake of the fatal shooting of a sergeant
Gang violence in SC increased in 2013 as gangs retaliated against each other and the public grew complacent about their existence
When Barry Norman was shot and killed in Fountain Inn last year, police used his social media account to help identify suspects
“We could literally fly through the scene,” said Roswell Police Detective Scott Stevenson
BART police officer mistook his supervisor for an armed threat when they unexpectedly came across each other during a probation search last week
Year-end data show homicides are down in Oakland by nearly 30% — as low as they’ve been since 2002
The verdict was a final step in a nearly two-year effort by Sergio Arreola to clear his name after the 2012 encounter that left him fired from the LAPD
Chief briefly mentioned the “on-body” camera technology while speaking with the D.C. Council about recent police misconduct
Darion Marcus Aguilar of College Park, Md., carried out Saturday’s attack with a 12-gauge shotgun
Justin Bernard Singleton pulled out a handgun and shot Brandon Robinson in the neck before fleeing campus with 3 other men
Sheriff Andy Stokes says he accidentally shot Deputy Chris Fleming after Fleming and his police dog had been shot by a man during a standoff
The NYPD has quietly installed about 200 temporary surveillance cameras in midtown Manhattan
More than 30 years after Vincent Asaro is believed to have gotten away with helping hatch a $6 million airport heist, prosecutors say the reputed mobster slipped up
Calif. police are investigating the allegations from two women who say a former middle school teacher abused them while they were students
Police chief who taught sex-abuse awareness classes to children has been charged with downloading child pornography
There are so many tricks of the trade to defuse street encounters and advance investigations — what are yours?
Attorneys considered last-minute attempts to keep a Mexican national from Texas’ death chamber
AMC theater says it contacted authorities after identifying someone wearing a recording device
Officers got into a fistfight with Scott Todd Sanders, 30, before they were finally able to restrain and arrest him
Classes at Purdue University were interrupted by the sounds of gunfire, fire alarms and screams when a student entered a basement classroom and fatally shot a fellow senior
Devices can scan digital fingerprint images without individuals needing to press their fingers against a screen
Jailers were keeping an 88-year-old man on a suicide watch after he shot his wife in the chest in her hospital room
