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.
Doug and Jim also discuss issues related to suicide by cop and offer tactics for conducting safe traffic stops
Identifying the most effective arguments to present to a suspect during an interrogation will help you elicit the truth
Several officers and others in the law enforcement community gave their take on this complex issue
The officer tackled and was forced to fatally shoot an armed man near an Ore. high school last month
A Green Bay lawyer has posted a dash cam video on Facebook that he says shows Green Bay police “kicking one subject to the ground and then repeatedly punching another after they have him pinned to the ground”
A suspect used a computer program that generated a police department’s phone number to show on the victim’s caller ID
Officers responding to an emergency call reporting two jumpers found Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, and the boy on the lower rooftops of two separate nearby buildings
Kyle Carnett, who witnessed part of the struggle, said Robert Cameron Redus attempted to strike Cpl. Christopher Carter and ignored the officer’s orders
Stanley Crosby, 65, faces seven counts of attempted murder, no one was injured
Four teens are accused of shooting a teacher in an attempted robbery at a high school
The four face charges of murder, felony murder, carjacking, conspiracy, possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose
Two officers were charged with the death of a mentally ill homeless man in a violent arrest in 2011
The use of facial recognition will grow not only in law enforcement, but in private society as well
The sheriff’s deputy involved in the crash sustained moderate injuries
James Marcus Howe was fatally shot when a man posing as a solicitor knocked on his door and forced his way inside
Jesus Huerta was searched and cuffed before he somehow shot himself in the cruiser’s backseat
An active shooter incident preempted and averted in Bartlesville (Okla.) provides a template for near-perfect threat response
Chief Richard Pruitt said the 23-year-old student had wrestled away the officer’s baton and hit him with it before the officer got it back
The Texas Rangers have joined the Alamo Heights Police Department in investigating the case
The impact smashed the patrol car’s windshield, leaving the deputy with cuts on his arm and glass in his eyes
Suspects are alleging they are being injured after taken into custody in a van without seat belts, a practice abolished by the department over a decade ago
When officers need to investigate an unwitnessed vehicle crash, especially a fatal one, they can usually find plenty of physical evidence. Unless, of course, it ends up underwater
Police say the gunman is in his mid to late 20s or early 30s, 5'7'’, 150 pounds and has acne scars
The couple claimed chicken wings started their kitchen fire, but an investigation proved otherwise
Even when victims and witnesses won’t cooperate, gang detectives need to find other ways to put cases together — here’s why
The student was shot during an argument with another boy, he’s in critical condition but expected to survive
Detectives received information that evidence related to the man’s death is at a home in Independence
According to the statements, the suspects broke into the victim’s basement, startling him, and accidentally fired when they tried hitting him with a gun
No charges have been filed against the man who police say felt threatened by the dark figure in his yard
