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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As John Reid told me, “A good interrogator is a good actor” — you have to convince the suspect that you’re on his side
Agency will supply aircraft with high-tech photo equipment
Facebook told the news magazine Newsweek that it received 10 to 20 requests from police per day
Authorities say the suspect has a firm understanding investigators’ procedures
Questions have been raised in whether or not police properly certified analyzers used in DUI charges
The FBI and the Richmond Police Department are investigating allegations that two officers recruited teens from the department’s Explorer program into their private security firm
Police spokeswoman said during the investigation that detectives had found what they believed was the primary weapon
High-tech license-plate readers and old-fashioned detective work by the FBI led cops to his stolen getaway car
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says “Operation 602 Exchange” resulted in the seizure of 223 weapons, many of them stolen
Chief Angelo Vega has been jailed since March 10 on a federal indictment charging conspiracy in a firearms smuggling case
The arrests were made Thursday and Wednesday as part of two federal indictments for activities since 2005, stated a news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office
Prosecutors argued the defendants were ready and willing to attack Americans, but lawyers for the four men say the case should be thrown out because they were ‘entrapped’ by a paid FBI informant
The DeKalb Police Internal Review Board has already cleared the officers of wrongdoing in the death
Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said, “I’ve never seen this type of collaboration in my 30 years of police work”
Was it a rifle? Or a black umbrella? Police responding to the rifle-report at Valley View Mall, couldn’t be sure
“It definitely was an assault rifle,” the guard said. Dozens swarmed and evacuated the mall during a failed 10-hour search
Defense attorneys argue that the exam should be conducted in a Tucson prison, prosecutors want Jared Lee Loughner’s exam conducted at a center that has increased resources
New technology now envisioned by university researchers may one day enable investigators to locate blood without the use of Luminol
As a result of the aging population growth, investigators will see an increase in the elderly as victims and perpetrators of crime
Following the arrest of the mayor, police chief, and a trustee in a federal gun smuggling case, Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos says he decided to suspend the village police department’s access to Luna County dispatch services
The plainclothes cop was shot when he arrived at a scene where cops had shot and killed a knifewielding Satan worshiper
When police identify an area that has a spike in crime, officers spend at least a week saturating that area during different shifts
After 10 days on the run, pair stole a pickup truck from a man and asked him how to get to Interstate 40
Federal authorities are tracking a possible connection between foreclosed home seizures and the so-called ‘sovereign citizen’ sect
Sandy Springs officer was told he crossed line in ’08, says he was ‘singled out’ and files lawsuit against Dept.
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it is a very useful exercise to remind ourselves about some of the most basic — and most visible — signs which can help police officers thwart a plot
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement’s primary defensive tool to combat terrorism remains in patrol and traditional policing methods
We’ve had dozens of attempted attacks by radicalized Islamist terrorists here in the United States since 9/11, and only in the case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was there any degree of ‘success’ on the part of the attacker
Members of the domestic terrorism group also plotted to kill a judge, claiming courts should have no authority over them
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