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For years, law enforcement has worked to dispel the myth that someone must be missing for 24 or 48 hours before a report can be taken, but another problem gets far less attention. A missing-person report is not an investigation.
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A New Jersey man arrested by a K-9 unit outside a casino has filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic City (N.J.) Police Department claiming excessive force. Read the full story here.
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Onlookers watched a fare jumper assault a SEPTA transit officer and one woman recorded the fight on her cell phone rather than calling 9-1-1. Read the full story here.
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The FBI has shut down the Silk Road online black market for drugs and charged site operator Ross Ulbricht with engaging in a "massive money-laundering" operation and of trying to arrange a murder-for-hire.
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About 40 onlookers watched a fare jumper assault a SEPTA transit officer last week, and one woman recorded the fight on her cell phone rather than calling 9-1-1.
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Loyalty rewards programs offered by certain rental car companies are designed with convenience in mind—in one case, all too convenient for a car thief. By using fake credit cards and stolen drivers' licenses, a woman in Orange County, Calif., engineered the theft of 42 rental vehicles in 2012 from a major rental car company.
Read More →An undercover Pueblo County (Colo.) Sheriff's detective arrested a man in a Pueblo West cellphone store Monday, after the man pretended to be an officer and accused him of dealing drugs.
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Spectronics Corp. has introduced the OFK-450A Blue Light LED Forensic Inspection Kit with its rechargeable Optimax 450 LED flashlight for crime-scene investigation, field evidence gathering, and laboratory work.
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Using the Findar GPR system, officers can locate weapons, caches of drugs or money, clandestine graves, hidden bunkers, or soil disturbances that have been buried, and download the images to a PC in real time.
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The FBI has released video surveillance footage from the Washington Navy Yard shooting showing Aaron Alexis arriving and stalking the hallways with a shotgun and handgun. Read the full story here.
Read More →Gahanna (Ohio) Police administrators have begun reviewing an officer's dash-cam video after he used a PIT maneuver to halt the pursuit of a suspect who had exposed himself at a drive-through window.
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