Justice Dept. Awards Nearly $500 M for Violent Crime Prevention

Marijuana is Drug of Choice for Youthful Drug Arrestees

Police Fear Country Drug is Making Its Way Into the City as Armed Robbers Hit Area Pharmacies

Supreme Court Rules Thermal Imaging Is a Search

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that thermal imaging to record the amount of heat emanating from a house, a police practice to help detect illegal drugs, represents a search covered by constitutional privacy protections.

Minneapolis Takes The Fight To the Streets

Officer Tim Hanks threaded the last of the Federal Tactical 00 buck-shot shells into his Remington 870, adjusted the Beretta 92FS in his Safariland rig, touched his backup revolver, then turned to me and said, “Well, you ready to hit the street?”

Embedding Crime Prevention In State Policy and Practice

Beware of Vehicles with Booby-trapped Airbags

The San Diego Intelligence Collection Analysis Team (ICAT), California received information from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Unified Intelligence Division about a booby-trapped airbag compartment in a Ford Taurus that could be used to kill and/or injure law enforcement officers. Officers are reminded to be alert and cautious.

The War on Drugs: Where Are We?

The answer to the drug problem lies in a variety of factors. Education is one. Good parenting is another. Also, while drug abuse is stupid, romanticizing its use through popular culture is more so. Finally, let's not be afraid to pass judgment.

Looking at a Year of Developments

Looking back at this year, street gang behaviors have changed little. However, those of us who work the street must have noticed a few unique changes in the types of gang alliances, memberships and the crimes in which some street gangs have been involved.

An Investigator’s Guide to the Methamphetamine Lab

The young children watched cartoons in the living room, while in the kitchen their mother dissolved cold tablets in a jar of denatured alcohol. She had closed up the house to keep the odors inside so her neighbors wouldn't call the police.