The Totality of Circumstances

People pass instant judgment on officers' actions on video without seeming to know anything about the investigation and analysis that necessarily includes policy, training, and the laws that govern police use of force.

Kristine Meldrum Denholm

Freelancing for Fugitives

If you think bounty hunters are mythical characters of the Wild West or figments of the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters, you'd better think again. The bounty hunter is alive and well in contemporary America.  The average fee for bringing in a bad guy runs between $400 and $600. Some par­ticularly high-profile cases can net $10,000 to $87,000 for an arrest.

Video: Officer Ambushed, Stabbed at Traffic Stop

Video from the incident shows a man spraying the officer in the face with pepper spray, attacking him with a knife, and attempting to take away his duty pistol.

Jumping into the Fire

At Columbine, the officers, deputies, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel did an incredible job in their response to an unbelievably bad situation. But through no fault of their own, the tactics they were trained to use were not suited to the nature of the incident.

David Griffith and Paul Clinton

Douglas Fishel

Dave Young and Gary T. Klugiewicz

Larkin Fourkiller