Editorial: Lawless Nation
Violent crime against police and the public is increasing at an alarming rate and almost all of it stems from the same source.
June 17, 2021
Violent crime against police and the public is increasing at an alarming rate and almost all of it stems from the same source.
June 17, 2021
Thoughts on some of the law enforcement news that came across our computers in October.
November 6, 2019
A traffic stop went bad. The suspect was shot and killed. An officer's back was broken. And the lawsuit and legal maneuvers lasted eight years.
October 17, 2019
POLICE has covered lessons learned, weapons of mass destruction, and capital punishment.
May 31, 2019
So what happened? Why does Contact and Cover seem to have faded into obscurity?
July 13, 2018
Activists who have never been trained as law enforcement officers have demanded to know why officers didn't use other force options.
January 10, 2017
Now that Williams has achieved one of her greatest career goals by becoming chief of her hometown Phoenix PD, she has equally lofty goals for the department.
December 7, 2016
It will be many months before we have the final reports on the Colorado Springs and San Bernardino active shooter attacks. But initial reports can give us an outline of what occurred during these two bloody incidents and perhaps enough insight to yield some important lessons learned.
January 28, 2016
If we start punishing officers for every mistake, just because an encounter ended in the justified shooting of a suspect, then officers will surely minimize their contact with suspects.
July 16, 2015
Law enforcement officers who work in tourism towns have a two-fold mission, protecting the locals and protecting the droves of tourists that the locals depend upon for their livelihood and their departments depend upon for operating funds. That may sound crass but law enforcement agencies in destination areas have to be aware of the numbers and what they mean.
July 17, 2014
At minimum, an LASD reserve officer's service will include logging 20 hours a month regardless of obligations posed by the reserve's regular job and family responsibilities. He may find himself working his own patrol car, standing guard in the cold along a parade route, or handling that "change of shift" report nobody else wanted.
March 4, 2014
Every driver speeds now and again, especially on heavily trafficked thoroughfares. A reminder in the form of a temporary radar sign displaying the driver's speed may be all that's needed to bring down vehicles' speedometer readings.
February 3, 2014
Officer Evan Wright chased after a gang member who fled and reached for his pocket while running. A flying tackle sent the two men into the middle of a residential driveway where some 20 guests were observing a quinceanera party in the front yard.
January 17, 2014
What might have happened if the subject had been a gang member, the AK had been real, and the deputy hadn’t taken action?
November 4, 2013
Belmontez raised the knife and charged at the officers with rapid steps. That the man had a wooden leg had already been made known to Brown. What he didn't expect was that the 250-pound man had long ago become accustomed to walking with it.
May 15, 2013
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