Major Incidents in Law Enforcement History
On October 8, 1918, Alvin York led an attack on a German machine gunnest, which led him to become one of the most decorated U.S. Army soldiers of World War 1
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I was looking down a path in life that would have been a very unhealthy one, but Private Lester Olson set me on a different course with three simple words: ‘It gets better’
On the American frontier, death and justice both came at the hands of lawmen like Heck Thomas
The first Black lawman west of the Mississippi, Bass Reeves rode a big gray horse, wore a black hat and gave out silver dollars as a calling card
At the start of the Civil War, John “Jack” Coffee Hays declined offers of command by both the North and the South and chose instead to stay in California to help give birth to a new state for the second time in his life
December 14, 2019, marks the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting – tragically, we still have a lot of work to do to protect our children from evil
As a police officer in Aurora, Colorado — a city that is only just beginning to recover from one of the largest mass shootings in the history of the United States — the news stopped me in my tracks
“Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
— John F. Kennedy, 1961
— John F. Kennedy, 1961
Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, says Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning
The Associated Press compiled all of the facts up to this point in the tragedy
Police say the gunman was not voluntarily let into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton
Active shooters can be stopped long before someone dies by understanding that most shooters pass through a fantasy stage, planning stage, preparation stage, approach stage, and implementation stage
Should at least one teacher on every floor of every school in America be armed, trained, qualified, and ready/willing to end a deadly threat in their school?
The president expressed condolences to those who lost loved ones in the elementary school shooting
Officials have confirmed the death toll at an elementary school shooting has reached 26 plus the gunman
Clarence Koblitz fired four shots from his 30/30 rifle balanced precariously on the running board of a speeding squad, holding onto the window frame, while firing one handed at the two occupants of the cab
At three o’clock on the afternoon of October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona City Marshall Virgil Earp deputized Wyatt, Morgan, and Doc Holiday, and on Virgil’s command, the four began the long walk toward the OK Corral to disarm the cowboys gathered there
Law enforcement legend survived 19 gunfights and trained an entire generation to survive their own
When criminals were at their worst, Frank Hamer was at his best
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