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March 14 2002 - Top News
Huffman Aviation school received some interesting mail recently: student visa approval forms for two men believed to have been hijackers of the jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11.
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March 8 2002 - Top News
A pilot project to give some Florida police officers federal power to arrest illegal immigrants would merge the roles of local law enforcement and the INS, sparking fears that the new arrangement may erode immigrants' trust in police.
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March 8 2002 - Top News
Detroit's new police chief, Jerry Oliver, recently distributed to precincts lapel pins that say "Mind'N Our Business." Complaints and confusion have ensued.
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March 8 2002 - Top News
Former police officer Charles Schwarz, convicted in 1999 for the 1997 torture of Abner Louima, was freed on $1 million bail to await a new trial.
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February 28 2002 - Top News
A federal appeals court has thrown out the convictions of three of the four police officers sent to prison in the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
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February 21 2002 - Top News
The death of a man shot by police with a Taser stun gun in Philadelphia has caused civil liberties groups to question the safety of nonlethal weapons.
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February 21 2002 - Top News
PBS' 2002 National Memorial Day Concert will pay special tribute to the Americans who are serving in the war against terrorism and the victims and heroes of Sept. 11.
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February 21 2002 - Top News
Lawmakers and government agencies are pushing for "smart" driver's licenses to reduce identity fraud in the wake of Sept. 11. But many fear this will lead to virtual national identity cards that could infringe upon the private rights of citizens.
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February 14 2002 - Top News
A federal jury awarded a former police cadet $847,785 in damages, deciding that the hearing-impaired man can safely serve as a police officer in Boston, more than four years after the police academy pulled him out of the academy graduation for perceived hearing lapses.
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February 14 2002 - Top News
Instead of stopping a drag race between Aaron Reynolds, 34, and Mustapha Mohammed Atat, 30, four police officers sat in their cars, blasting music and urging the race to continue, according to prosecutors.
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February 14 2002 - Top News
A new Website from the Justice Department provides comprehensive criminal datasets for state and local law enforcement, including homicide statistics and trends across the 50 states.
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February 11 2002 - Top News
The bodies of six Port Authority police officers were found early Saturday morning in the World Trade Center ruins near the remains of a woman they apparently were trying to rescue.
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February 7 2002 - Top News
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Policing (COPS) recently released eight publications in a series of crime-specific guides for police.
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February 7 2002 - Top News
The Michigan Department of State Police recently purchased $1 million in Master Lock gunlocks to be used in a statewide firearm lock give-away program.
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February 7 2002 - Top News
Denver's former police chief and nine of the officers he supervised at Denver International Airport were reassigned after an undercover television investigation showed the officers loafing on the job.
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February 7 2002 - Top News
Undercover investigators purchased more than 900 black-market law enforcement badges, both real and counterfeit, over the Internet recently.
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January 31 2002 - Top News
Last year when doctors writing for the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association wanted to conduct a study of the effectiveness of fitted shoe insoles they turned to people who really know foot pain: beat cops.
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January 31 2002 - Top News
Meteorlogix, a Minneapolis-based weather services provider, now offers customizable Website information at the Wx.com Website.
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January 30 2002 - Top News
A department-wide ban on smoking on-duty or in uniform was dropped for now by Philiadelphia Interim Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson.
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January 30 2002 - Top News
Wanted men probably shouldn’t visit their friends in prison. Police arrested David Ruppert at the York County prison (Penn.) while he was visiting Robert Haley, his friend and alleged accomplice in the armed robbery of a woman making a bank deposit.
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January 24 2002 - Top News
The U.S. Marine Corps reports the deployment of a new crowd-control weapon that promises to make riots much more slippery affairs.
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January 24 2002 - Top News
The BlackBerry, a pricey handheld wireless Internet device favored by Wall Street investment bankers and Hollywood producers, may soon be one of the most effective weapons in the arsenal of U.S. homeland defense.
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January 24 2002 - Top News
Looking for a way to lower the number of officers killed in the line of duty, Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) has released new use-of-force guidelines.
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January 24 2002 - Top News
Chief Teresa Chambers, who has served as police chief for the Durham (N.C.) PD for almost four years, is leaving to become Chief of the U.S. Park Police for the National Park Service. Chambers becomes the first female head of the park police in its 210-year history.
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January 24 2002 - Top News
The Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is making $25 million available to help law enforcement agencies across the nation obtain bulletproof vests. The OJP's Bureau of Justic Assistance (BJA) has opened the application process for the FY 2002 Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program.
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