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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.

The Supreme Court opinion on Mullenix v. Luna focused on one key issue: qualified immunity
The R-7 augmented reality glasses offer facial recognition and LPR
Child abuse calls present a number of challenges to responding officers
A 17-member class of veterans trained in computer forensics are being sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices
The boy begged an officer to save his life
She claims the officer forced her to perform sex acts while displaying his badge and gun
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on New Jersey for the game
The man’s accuser told police he was angry because he believed his brother was eating too many sandwiches
Officer Steven Brown and Naval Criminal Investigative Service Agent Suzanne Marsteller each fired once at Shane Whitworth after he leveled a gun at them during a showdown
Seattle arson investigators are searching for the suspect, who poured gas on a carpeted stairway and set it ablaze
Matthew Starsick was fired by police chief Rick Panico, who claimed Starsick failed to respond to allegations of misconduct
Violent crime is down in Detroit, police have improved their response time to 911 calls and officers are solving a greater percentage of homicides
Edward Clinton Jones was charged with solicitation of murder for asking a man to help him find someone to ‘finish off’ his wife
Authorities say David Charles broke into Indiana Medical History Museum multiple times to steal body parts
The body of Rev. Eric Freed was found in the St. Bernard Church rectory after he failed to show up for morning mass
The city saw the numbers of violent crimes, including robbery, aggravated battery and criminal sexual assault drop significantly
Five men heading to a party were shot and a woman apparently was pistol-whipped, all are expected to survive
Anthony Lee and his brother Diante Lamont Coakley were denied bail Sunday and will remain in jail after being charged with first-degree murder
Mario Edward Garnett is suspected of a three-state bank robbery spree that resulted in the death of a cop
A man collapsed in a Border Patrol holding cell on Christmas Eve after he was taken into custody for allegedly carrying three pounds of marijuana
A suspect killed by Phoenix police in a bank robbery attempt is believed to be the same man accused in the shooting death of a Mississippi police officer
An estimated 980 pounds of marijuana and 17 firearms were found when search warrants were served
It might have appeared that Ben Freeman was trying to right some wrongs in his life in the months before police say he killed three people and himself
Sgt. Kevin “Gale” Stauffer, 38, was killed, and Officer Joseph Maher, 27, was injured and is slowly recovering
Haamid Ade Zaid, of San Jose, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon
A 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were fatally shot Christmas night, a third is in critical condition in the hospital
The man opened fired on officers, who returned fire, police said. He fled into a secluded area, and a police helicopter and a K-9 unit were searching for him Wednesday afternoon
Gage Thornton and Brandon Jackson, both 22, appeared in bond court Monday, hours after each were charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted armed robbery
It is unclear what the stepfather’s intent was; a burglary had been reported before the shooting
Tupelo Police Cpl. Kevin “Gale” Stauffer, 38, was killed and his partner was critically wounded, suspects at large
The student used his Mac laptop’s tracking features and discovered the computer “pinging” from a house in north Minneapolis
The man told police he was angry for the interruption of his Xbox game, and yanked up on the right leg of the child
The U.S. Supreme Court’s continuing protection of property rights in 2013