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Starting last year, two Evanston community groups, Brummel Park Neighbors and Network 2424, backed by Rainey and Chicago Ald. Joe Moore (49th), decided to try to crack the problem at the source by asking stores to stop selling eggs to youths around Halloween. Moore's office sent letters to grocers, and Rainey tracked down a renegade store that supplied eggs used in a smaller number of eggings last year.
Read More →The corruption case against the former Orange County lawman once dubbed "America's sheriff" opened this morning with federal prosecutors describing Michael S. Carona as a political manipulator whose ambitions were fueled by power and greed.
Read More →Attorneys for former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona revealed Tuesday that the government plans to present additional allegations against Carona during his upcoming corruption trial, and argued that they are entitled to the information before the trial later this month.
Read More →Federal agents arrested Starr County Sheriff Reymundo "Rey" Guerra on Tuesday for his alleged role in a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Gulf Cartel.
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In smaller agencies, policy manuals—if they existed—were just a few policy statements. Now there are multiple bound volumes that no officer can be expected to memorize, let alone understand. — Tom Aveni, Police Policy Studies Council
Read More →Garfield County (Colo.) sheriff's deputies who raided the pot farm found pipes chewed in half, food containers ripped apart, cans scarred by bites, claw marks and bear prints and trees bearing claw marks. "If I can find this bear, I'm going to deputize him," said Sheriff Danny Perkins.
Read More →Lake County, Ill., Sheriff Mark Curran said his goal is to talk to inmates so he can see the jail from their perspective. That way he can try to solve potential problems, such as safety issues, and better understand the inmate experience, he said.
Read More →The Orange County Sheriff's Department promised today that any special reserve deputies caught using their badges and ID cards after reporting that the credentials had been lost or stolen will be arrested and charged with filing false police reports and being in possession of stolen property.
Read More →A compound on county-owned property complete with razor wire, chain-link fencing, canvas tents and portable showers and toilets dubbed "Camp Beaufort" may be the county's best chance to alleviate crowding in the Beaufort County (S.C.) Detention Center, Sheriff P.J. Tanner said.
Read More →Hundreds of critics of Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio packed the county chambers Wednesday to try to persuade the Board of Supervisors to put an end to his controversial immigration sweeps, to better monitor lawsuits related to his office, and to more closely examine his emergency response times and jurisdictional reach.
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