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Two of the four finalists to lead the Bay Area Rapid Transit's police department are women.
Read More →Chicago police Superintendent Jody Weis is facing an uncertain summer as recent crime spikes and questions about his leadership have cost him the support of many rank-and-file officers.
Read More →Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates talks about the Rodney King incident, the consent decree, police-chief politics, his decision to eliminate hats, and his comment about the carotid restraint during a May 2009 interview with Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison.
Read More →D.C. Metro's acting police chief, Jeri Lee, issued a written apology to his officers for a training memo that sparked critiques of racial profiling.
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Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, who organized the first police SWAT unit and led the department during the Rodney King incident and riots that followed, has died at the age of 83.
Read More →He may not have invented SWAT. Yet Gates was intricately involved in its creation, and like all great leaders in organizations who are presented with a great idea, he provided the push needed to get it implemented.
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Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates discusses the founding of SWAT, as a result of lessons learned by the Watts riots of the 1960s in this clip that appeared in "Police Quest: SWAT 2," a series of PC-based video games bearing his name from the 1990s.
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New Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland, on his first day as top cop, gives an abbreviated view of what he wants for an agency that protects and serves the nation's fourth largest city.
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Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland arrived at the department today for the first time as the new chief, after a badge-pinning ceremony on Wednesday.
Read More →Bernard Kerik, who led the NYPD during one of its most challenging periods, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that tarnished the legacy of the one-time Sept. 11 hero.
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