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Law enforcement officials on both sides of the border have deemed the drug cartel power struggle that is occurring in northern Mexico and its subsequent "bleed-over" into Arizona "an outright war" and an escalating concern.
Read More →The dynamics of Los Angeles and the Crip and Blood gangs of the 1980s presented certain criminal entrepreneurs with to opportunity to control the drug trade in large sections of the city, and the L.A. drug lifestyle provided an unlimited consumer base for expansion; it was supply and demand economics in its most vicious form.
Read More →No matter where you heard it, Stanley “Tookie” Williams was not the co-founder of the Crip street gang in Los Angeles. Many of the leaders of the first Crip gangs knew each other at Washington, Fremont, or Locke High Schools. But more often they were fellow inmates at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, Youth Authority, and Fred Shaw or Bob Simmon’s Home for Boys.
Read More →The TASER Foundation for Fallen Officers and 24/7 Cop2Cop News are participating in the inaugural "Drive to Remember" in which a specially wrapped Hummer H3 called "Guardian One" will tour from Vancouver, B.C., south to Los Angeles, Calif., then east to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about officers killed in the line of duty.
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Every fall, law enforcement vehicles are tested by two of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies: the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Michigan State Police. This year, Ford brought a hybrid vehicle.
Read More →Additional testing showed the peppermint-scented liquid that got punk rocker Don Bolles arrested on drug charges this month was only soap, not the date-rape drug GHB, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Read More →Pelican Products' 7060 will replace the existing flashlight previously supplied to officers by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Read More →Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has responded to the outcry for more effective non-lethal means of subduing violent subjects without jeopardizing the safety of its deputies. It has tested the use of TigerLight flashlight/OC spray units and results have been positive.
Read More →The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office Tuesday said it will not file any criminal charges against LAPD officers involved in a standoff that resulted in the shooting deaths of a baby and her father 16 months ago.
Read More →Life imitated art for hit forensic investigation drama CSI: New York when a real mummified corpse was found in the building where an episode was being filmed.
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