The police chief of Linden, New Jersey, is "very proud" of his officers' preparedness after they engaged in a shootout and captured the suspect in the New York and New Jersey explosions this weekend.
Read More →Ahmad Khan Rahami provided investigators with a wealth of clues that led to his arrest about 50 hours after the first explosion, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
Read More →The dramatic shootout on a rain soaked street in Linden, NJ, came after the police issued a cellphone alert to millions of residents in the area telling them to be on the lookout for the suspect, who was described as "armed and dangerous."
Read More →Authorities released a photo Monday of a man being sought in connection with the bombing in Manhattan that injured 29 people over the weekend.
Read More →Eight people were stabbed and injured and the suspect was killed by an off-duty officer at Crossroads Center, a mall in St. Cloud, MN, on Saturday about 8:15 p.m.
Read More →A previously undisclosed Police Foundation report chronicles in vivid detail the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people and wounded 24 others. A husband and wife who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State committed the rampage and died hours later in a shootout with the police.
Read More →Cognitive impairment, long considered a leading risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, has been detected in a significant proportion of people who served as first responders during the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Stony Brook University researchers have found.
Read More →It is of his first look inside the Pulse nightclub. Dozens of people were motionless on the blood-soaked dance floor, and the Eatonville police officer had just burst through the club’s patio door for a rescue.
Read More →The Department of Justice today released redacted transcripts of Omar Mateen’s calls to Orlando Police — made during his assault on the Pulse gay nightclub — that included Mateen’s claim of responsibility, as well as identifying himself to police as an Islamic soldier. But all other references to ISIS or Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were scrubbed clean by the DOJ.
Read More →“Officers were running inside and grabbing people and throwing them in pickup trucks” to be taken to hospitals, said Capt. Mark Canty of the SWAT team. “There was never a time we were sitting there twiddling our thumbs. My guys were doing things from the beginning. We weren’t just sitting idly by. We were doing what we needed to do to save lives.”
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