Women in Law Enforcement: Iowa's Deputy Karla Altenbaumer

Karla Altenbaumer got into law enforcement because she didn’t want to spend her career as an office worker. “I knew I didn’t want to sit behind a desk all day,” she says. “I knew I wanted to be out in the community helping people..."

Richard A. Brooks

Dave George

N.Y. Port Authority Officers Deliver Baby on the George Washington Bridge

A taxi pulled over and asked for assistance from Port Authority officers as a mother in the back seat was about to give birth.

I Heard the Snap of the Tower...

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, shortly after eight in the morning, I transmitted a tone and announced a third alarm for the borough of Manhattan, N.Y. The call was initially reported as a high-rise fire in the World Trade Center tower 1.

Rookie GA Officer Saves Woman Threatening to Jump from Highway Bridge

"Suddenly he's faced with this life or death situation that he has to resolve," said Marietta Police Officer Chuck McPhilamy.

Todd D. Keister

Morgan Steele and Tamara J. Lynn

Jad Saliba