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News•by Staff Writer•April 4, 2008

Denver Detective Says He Lacked Child Interrogation Skills for Abuse Investigation

The Denver detective assigned to find out from 6-year-old Chandler Grafner whether he had been abused testified Wednesday that, at the time, he had no forensic training in how to interview a child.

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News•by Staff Writer•April 3, 2008

N.C. Probation Office Slammed for Releasing Murder Suspects

One after another, the mistakes mounted in the probation offices handling the cases of the men charged with murdering UNC-Chapel Hil student body president Eve Carson. Demario Atwater, 21, had not received as much as a phone call from his probation officer for more than a year. Laurence Alvin Lovette, 17, had a probation officer who, after seven months on the job, still had not received basic training or met the teenager.

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Articles•by David Griffith•April 1, 2008

Attendees Get Hands-On Training at TREXPO West

For the first time, TREXPO conference attendees were offered the chance to earn POST credit for attending a wide variety of hands-on and classroom lecture TREXPO conference sessions.

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Articles•by Dean Scoville•April 1, 2008

Lightbars, Camera, Action!

Frightening, instructional, oftentimes inspirational, and even entertaining videos come to us via a variety of dashboard cameras mounted inside America's law enforcement patrol vehicles.

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Articles•by Joseph Petrocelli•April 1, 2008

Fraudulent Credit Card Purchases

Criminals use fraudulent credit cards to steal billions of dollars in merchandise every year. In 2007 alone, U.S. businesses absorbed $3.2 billion in losses from online credit card fraud. This staggering number does not include fraudulent purchases made from retail stores.

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News•by Staff Writer•March 28, 2008

Unlikely FBI Has Found D.B. Cooper's Chute, Says Man Who Packed It

The man who packed the parachute used by D.B. Cooper said the hijacker obviously wasn't an expert sky diver and has doubts the parachute found this month by the FBI was the one used in the world's only unsolved hijacking.

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News•by Staff Writer•March 28, 2008

Man Killed by Albuquerque SWAT Officers ID'd

The man shot to death early Wednesday at a North Valley home after brandishing a shotgun at Albuquerque officers executing a narcotics warrant has been identified as 40-year-old Lupe Fuentes Jr., the Albuquerque Journal reported this morning.

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News•by Staff Writer•March 28, 2008

T3 Motion Teams Up With the Largest U.S. Supplier of Police and Emergency Vehicles

T3 Motion, Inc., today announced it has signed an agreement with America's largest police and emergency vehicles upfitter, MHQ Municipal Vehicles, to distribute the revolutionary T3 Series vehicle in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

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News•by Staff Writer•March 20, 2008

Louisiana Man Gets 100 Years for Shooting Cop

An Orleans Parish judge yesterday sentenced a 25-year-old Algiers man to a century in prison for trying to murder New Orleans police officer Andres Gonzalez nine months after Hurricane Katrina.

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News•by Staff Writer•March 14, 2008

Workplace Drug Test Data Shows that Meth, Coke Use Have Plummeted

According to data released earlier this week by Quest Diagnostics' Drug Testing Index (DTI), results from workplace drug screenings conducted in 2007 show a more than 50 percent decline in the percentage of positive tests for methamphetamine over two years, from 28 of every 10,000 people testing positive for meth in 2005, to 14 of every 10,000 testing positive for meth in 2007.

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