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Section: Investigations
Technology
Fortifying Police Stations
Police administrations can implement a variety of technologies to beef-up police facility security. While cameras are often top of mind in every police facility—even the old and outdated ones—many other technologies exist to monitor and secure these buildings.
May 15, 2011
Patrol
'Functional Equivalent' of Miranda Questions
"Interrogation" has been defined by the Supreme Court to include both direct questioning and its "functional equivalent." What does this term mean? Three Supreme Court cases and numerous decisions from the federal appeals court have considered this question.
May 10, 2011
Technology
Secret Agent: Sur-Tec's VP Covert App
Sur-Tec's VP Covert Audio and GPS software suite is a patented surreptitious listening tool for law enforcement that allows an undercover officer or CI to stream live audio and GPS to one or more computers. The mobile application element of the software runs in the background on the user's smartphone.
May 2, 2011
Patrol
Chemical Suicides
When called to suicide scenes, emergency personnel don't always know what they're up against. With some 90 percent of chemical suicides posting warnings on the windows of the cars and rooms in which they kill themselves, one would hope that officers and firefighters would think twice before opening doors and breaching windows.
April 17, 2011
Patrol
Dear Mr. President
Whether they carry the title of agent, officer, or marshal, your federal officers are being sent into the teeth of a war without weapons and with rules of engagement written by fools. Worse, one of your agencies tasked with the job of keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals has actually been supplying those criminals with weapons.
April 10, 2011
Patrol
DNA Evidence: What Patrol Officers Need to Know
The advent of DNA analysis has revolutionized criminal investigations, and new techniques continue to improve the ways in which it can be used.
February 2, 2011
Technology
Conn. Agencies Use Appriss to Track Sex Offenders
The public can now access the state's upgraded system to track the whereabouts of registered sex offenders by street location, city or town, or by a radial area, a registrant's name, or by compliance status. In addition, parents can print fliers on child safety from their own computers.
January 25, 2011
Special Units
A Field Guide to Mexican Drug Cartels
At least seven major Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) are primarily responsible for the $39 billion drug trade that floods narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's a guide to the most active, and largest, cartels.
November 21, 2010
Patrol
It's Time to Get Tough on Drugs, America
If we want to dry up the market, we have to make the penalties for drug possession more than a hand slap.
November 2, 2010
Special Units
Home Invasions: Side Effects of the Drug War
Drug-related home invasions are especially prevalent in the Sunbelt. Southern Arizona, Texas, and Atlanta serve as distribution points for traffickers delivering narcotic loads from Mexican drug trafficking organizations to distribution points where dealers and street gangs wait for their arrival.
November 2, 2010
Patrol
Patrolling the Broken Border
A metal fence divides Nogales, USA from another Nogales: Nogales, Sonora, a much poorer Nogales where law enforcement is under attack from drug trafficking cartels and the cartels are under attack from many rivals.
October 30, 2010
Special Units
Risk Management
Things are not technologically stagnant in the SWAT community. New versions of the tried and true, as well as innovative uses of modern mechanisms, simultaneously bring SWAT teams closer to suspects in the safest way possible and bring situations to safer conclusions.
August 19, 2010
Patrol
Shots Fired: Midway, Georgia 03/23/2010
A Monday afternoon, a small blue VW, and a one-armed man in a dress suit: Hardly the components one is apt to conjure up when envisioning a firefight.
August 19, 2010
Patrol
Shots Fired: Cleveland, Ohio 04/10/1985
A mere eight seconds had passed between the time the uniformed unit pulled up and Paskvan's request for paramedics, time enough for the man to have sustained fatal injuries and Paskvan's life and career path to change substantially.
June 23, 2010
Patrol
Miranda Warning Issues
Miranda
warnings are triggered by a simple formula: Custody + Interrogation = The requirement for
Miranda
warnings. A motorist is not in "custody" for
Miranda
purposes when he or she is detained for an ordinary traffic stop.
May 10, 2010
Patrol
An Internal Affairs Investigation
No matter what steps are taken prior to patrol, you are liable to rub someone the wrong way and have a complaint lodged against you. Here's some advice on how to respond.
April 4, 2010
Weapons
Firearms Forensics
I realized that even without the murder weapon, the prosecution still had an immense amount of significant ballistic physical evidence linking Abeyta to the murder. And thanks to good forensic work and the invaluable NIBIN database that tracks images of ballistics evidence, it was enough to convict him.
February 10, 2010
Patrol
The "Emergency Aid Doctrine"
Officers can enter when it reasonably appears someone inside may need emergency aid, regardless of the officers' actual, subjective motivations for going inside.
February 4, 2010
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