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.
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Subjects seeking to be deceptive overwhelmingly prefer closed-ended questions that let them get by with abbreviated statements whereas truthful individuals will mine their memories for the truth
A physical trigger can be all it takes to convince a suspect to tell us their story
The American Bar Association advises that investigators should continually reevaluate the culpability of witnesses, victims, subjects, and targets
Most citizens aren’t experts on the finer points of due process and investigation protocols, but they do watch a lot of TV shows that make it difficult for them to separate fact from fantasy
The outreach campaign follows an Associated Press investigation that revealed the NYPD had dispatched plainclothes officers to eavesdrop in Muslim communities in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Spokesman: Sheriff’s deputies helped federal agents serve warrants
One suspect allegedly intended to use the plot of a novel as a model for plans to attack U.S. federal law officers
Part Two: Dr. Ed Geiselman offers tips for protecting yourself from an interviewer who doesn’t understand the principles of human memory
Police will investigate whether a crime occurred at a youth boot camp after videos surfaced
Part One: Dr. Ed Geiselman offers lessons for conducting fair, impartial, and comprehensive interviews in OISs and other critical-incident cases
Sahar Aziz, a Texas Wesleyan University law professor, said the NYPD monitoring of mosques, Islamic bookstores and Muslim student groups needed to be looked into
Find prompted authorities to resume their search for possible victims of a man convicted a decade ago of sexually torturing women
Former Detective Nathan Lee told the jury that, after Johnathan Ellison was arrested on March 17, he told the officer that he and 27-year-old James Oglesby had stolen a car from Alabama and ditched it in Whitfield County, Ga
A federal grand jury is investigating abuse-of-power allegations against him
Two Chicago-area families had by Monday afternoon provided DNA samples to compare to the skeletal remains
Crime lab officials: Having officers’ DNA on file is important for fending off doubt about evidence at trials
More than a dozen people have been killed, including three Chihuahua state police investigators
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says new technology has allowed it to obtain DNA profiles
An anonymous tip led to an undercover prostitution bust at the clubhouse of one of the city’s famed Mummers brigades
When constructing a new and uniquely different program, it may be advisable to use a technique called ‘The Bell, The Book, and The Candle’
The infiltration was part of a secret NYPD intelligence-gathering effort that put entire Muslim communities under scrutiny
In all, 37 people have been arrested for a variety of drug-related crimes as part of a 18-month investigation
Detective Thomas Sergeant Groneman of the Suffolk County Police Department Homicide Squad is asking for investigators across the country to study and consider the provided details as they may relate to one open cases
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the senators cite an Associated Press investigation
Using everything from sophisticated TelePresence solutions to simple online meetings, police can achieve improved effectiveness and arrest rates
Streaming video makes incident management much more manageable
Vehicles included two Bugatti Veyrons, a Ferrari 599 GTO and a Maserati MC12
A two-year drug investigation culminated Wednesday with the arrest of more than 40 suspected gang members
The serial numbers on the weapons found at Anthony Magsam’s home did not match any guns missing from the Philadelphia Police DepartmentFirearms Identification Unit
A school resource officer found a man and woman in the parking lot with gunshot wounds
