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.
Machine learning can help investigators identify critical patterns and insights, enabling investigators to optimize obtaining evidence and building stronger cases
While GPS is not new technology, the use of geofence warrants in law enforcement investigations is relatively recent
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The state’s Highway Patrol used a self-destructing text messaging app called Silent Phone
EMS records show Nathanial Rhodes was taken to the police station instead of the hospital after a vehicle crash, where body cam footage shows him collapsing
The frauder must spend 21 months in prison along with paying restitutions to his victims
The man is accused of killing Officer Michael Michalski as the officer went to a home on July 25 to arrest him on a warrant for felony drug crimes
From bloodstain pattern analysis to grave excavations at a body farm, the National Forensic Academy takes a hands-on approach to teaching crime scene investigation
The true purpose of a midrange photograph is to establish the location of specific items of evidence
The officer who shot and wounded a driver last year resigned during an administrative hearing last week
The case was dismissed the same day the district attorney’s office announced it will review more than 1,400 cases worked by the Houston LEO
Police say Jussie Smollett faked a threatening letter and staged a racist, anti-gay attack because he was dissatisfied with his pay on the “Empire” TV show
The former officer’s lawyers say prosecutors have no right to challenge his current prison term
The department has released video of an officer fatally shooting an armed suspect
Prosecutors are reviewing criminal cases involving an officer accused of lying in an affidavit justifying a deadly drug raid
A commander’s statement that an officer should shoot rapper 50 Cent on sight has led to an internal investigation
The judge dismissed the family’s claims against the county and the officer who fatally shot an armed woman in a six-hour standoff.
The court documents provide new details into the shooting death of Officer Katlyn Alix
The officer is suing the social media giants claiming their platforms knowingly supported terrorist groups
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The former officer was assaulted by inmates in his cell after being transferred to a Conn. prison
Jurors convicted him on all 10 counts that are likely to put him behind bars for the rest of his life
Prosecutors asked Illinois’ highest court to review the less than seven year sentence for the former Chicago officer
Police believe the killer stabbed at least five men to death from early 1974 to late 1975
“A reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots”
The St. Louis police officer is accused of killing a female colleague while playing a variation of Russian roulette
The trooper was a member of a tactical team assisting a task force with a search warrant on Monday night
The prosecutor accused the department of obstruction in the investigation of an officer fatally shot by a colleague
Intelligence analysis software allows investigators to methodically and strategically review high volumes of data from multiple sources
A recent DOJ-commissioned report provides guidance for police investigators and crime analysts
Officer Nathaniel R. Hendren, 29, is accused in the fatal shooting of Officer Katlyn Alix, 24, while they were playing with a gun
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said this week that his office would review the Van Dyke sentence
A jury found that the LEO used “non-lethal excessive force” against a knife-wielding man who attacked a fellow officer
Forensic science is only as reliable as the people performing the tests.
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