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Police: Okla. Sheriff Ran Sex-Slave Operation From Jail

April 18 2008 - Top News

An Oklahoma sheriff resigned after an investigation reveals he was running a sex-slave operation from his jail, police said.

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Suspect Nabbed in Michigan Deputy, Police Chief Shooting

April 18 2008 - Top News

Authorities captured a man Thursday who is accused of shooting and critically wounding the Capac. Mich., police chief, grazing a deputy and retreating into a house that was soon surrounded by officers. At some point, he slipped away on foot.

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Out-of-Town Agencies Poach Recruits from NYPD with Promise of Higher Pay

April 18 2008 - Top News

Dozens of out-of-town police departments will be trying to lure recruits from a job fair at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Thursday by promising far higher starting salaries than the NYPD offers.

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Blackhawk’s Knoxx Axiom Rifle Stock Reduces Bolt-Action Rifle Recoil

April 18 2008 - Product News

The Blackhawk Knoxx Axiom V/S Rifle Stock is designed specifically for bolt-action rifles utilizing the recoil reducing SpecOps stock with a CNC-machined billet all aluminum fore-stock for maximum in stability and accuracy.

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LAPD Chief Vows to Clarify Policy on Immigrants

April 17 2008 - Top News

Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton said Wednesday that the department's controversial policy on dealing with illegal immigrants was widely misunderstood by the public and some of his own officers, and he would clarify the rule in the next couple of weeks.

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Criminal Charges Filed Against Pennsylvania Chief

April 17 2008 - Top News

Criminal charges will be filed today against Northern Cambria, Pa.'s longtime police chief, who was involved in an altercation with another police officer, said Susquehanna Township’s officer-in-charge.

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Officer Struck with Bat Shoots, Kills Fresno Student

April 17 2008 - Top News

The officer fired at the Roosevelt High School sophomore after the 17-year-old allegedly came from behind and struck the officer in the head with a crude wooden baseball bat, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

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Paranormal Society Suggests Local Police Department Is Haunted

April 17 2008 - Top News

The Greater Pittsburgh Paranormal Society says the Homestead (Pa.) Police Department is full of things that go bump in the night.

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Ex-Marshal: Air Marshal Training 'A National Disgrace'

April 17 2008 - Top News

Their mission is to protect airline passengers from acts of terror on U.S. flights. But in a special investigation, former and current air marshals told CNN that the number of marshals assigned to police flights is so low that the federal agency overseeing them has drastically lowered its firearms and psychological testing standards just so it can qualify new hires.

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Blackhawk Introduces the New SERPA Duty Holster for the TASER X-26

April 17 2008 - Product News

Blackhawk announced this week that it is now selling a SERPA duty holster for the TASER X-26.

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Blackhawk Knoxx Shotgun Stock Reduces Up to 95% of Felt Recoil

April 17 2008 - Product News

The Blackhawk Knoxx SpecOps Stock is designed to fit any size operator with more than four inches of adjustment. Utilizing the patented dual Knoxx recoil compensating systems, the SpecOps Stock reduces perceived felt recoil up to 95 percent, including the recoil of the heaviest loads.

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Louisiana Seeks to Execute Convicted Child Rapist

April 16 2008 - Top News

He is not a killer, but the state of Louisiana is determined to execute Patrick Kennedy for his crime. The New Orleans native faces that reality as he sits on death row at Louisiana's maximum security prison, the largest prison in the nation. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola Prison, is the size of Manhattan and surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River.

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Student Group Demands Concealed Carry Rights on College Campuses

April 15 2008 - Top News

Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, has become a leading advocate for college students to carry weapons on campus. He's an organizer for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a grass-roots organization that was formed after last year's Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 college students and professors dead.

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Two Southern California Officers Stable After Shooting in Theater

April 14 2008 - Top News

Two El Segundo, Calif., police officers were reported in stable condition at a hospital Saturday after a shootout inside a movie theater that left a 24-year-old man dead and a bystander injured, police and city officials said.

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Federal Signal Unveils Comprehensive Systems for First Responders

April 14 2008 - Product News

Federal Signal Corporation’s Safety and Security Systems Group unveiled a suite of comprehensive interoperability, mobile data, public warning, and vehicular lighting systems at last week's FDIC (Fire Engineering) show.

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New York-Area Police Honored for Water Rescues

April 13 2008 - Top News

The Life Saving Benevolent Association (LSBA) has honored New York-area police officers for their heroic lifesaving water rescues.

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California Investigators Identify Victim of 1964 Homicide

April 12 2008 - Top News

In an extraordinary example of old-fashioned sleuthing and state-of-the-art genetic testing, investigators have solved the case of a Mill Valley, Calif., woman missing since 1964, concluding from bones recently found in a makeshift grave that she was probably a homicide victim.

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TigerLight Demonstrated at Beverly Hills Police Department

April 11 2008 - Product News

This week the Beverly Hills Police Department hosted training officers, tactical team leaders and patrol officers for a two-hour demo of the TigerLight non-lethal defense system.

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Paralyzed N.C. Officer Recovers from Wounds

April 11 2008 - Top News

A Burke County, N.C., deputy who was shot in the neck and paralyzed during a December SWAT standoff is working hard to move forward with his life.

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University of Colorado Officer Cleared in Hospital Shooting

April 11 2008 - Top News

A police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a man who threatened to detonate a bomb inside a Boulder hospital. The Boulder County district attorney's office said Wednesday that University of Colorado police Cpl. Matt DeLaria was justified in the March 17 shooting of 32-year-old Terrance Baughman.

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Minneapolis Testing White Lights for Traffic Light Enforcement

April 11 2008 - Top News

To catch drivers who run red lights, police usually have to run red lights themselves, risking an accident. Minneapolis tried to fix that by using cameras to record the licenses of drivers who ran lights, but courts ruled the system was illegal.

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TREXPO East 2008 Keynote Speakers Announced

April 10 2008 - Top News

TREXPO East first response training conference and expo returns to the Dulles Expo & Conference Center in Chantilly, Va., August 26–29, 2008, with keynote speakers Maj. E. James Land, USMC (Ret.) and secretary of the NRA; and Felix I. Rodriguez, retired CIA agent and author of "Shadow Warrior: The CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battles."

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NYPD to Institute Random Steroid Testing of Officers

April 10 2008 - Top News

The NYPD will begin random steroid testing starting July 1, police brass said Wednesday.

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Jury Backs Boston Police Detectives in Rights Suit

April 10 2008 - Top News

A federal jury all but cleared yesterday two former Boston police detectives who were sued for allegedly violating the civil rights of Shawn Drumgold in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore, one of the city's most notorious homicides.

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Murdered Teen's Family Asks LAPD to Question, Deport Illegal Aliens

April 9 2008 - Top News

Jamiel Shaw Sr. and his wife, Anita, a U.S. Army sergeant who has been serving in Iraq, appeared before the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday arguing for changes to the 30-year-old Los Angeles Police Department policy as it pertains to gang members suspected of being illegal immigrants.

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