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Patrol
St. Louis Police Bristle at Bosses' Inquiry on Their Confidential Informers
Worried about liars in their ranks, city police officials are demanding that up to 20 officers tell bosses details about their confidential informers. But the St. Louis Police Officers Association has won a temporary restraining order to block the inquiry.
August 19, 2009
Patrol
Man in Witness Protection Murdered in California
The bullet riddled body of a man was found in a Sonoma County beach parking lot last week. Authorities say the man was a protected witness, and he was kidnapped and killed to prevent him from testifying against alleged gang members.
March 10, 2008
Patrol
How to Develop Informants
Some cops could use a hug. Others could use a Huggy Bear. Like Starsky and Hutch's trusty tattletale, reliable informants provide us with a worm's eye view of their sordid social circles, a heads up on threats to officer safety, and the groundwork for search warrants. They hang in circles we wouldn't want to enter. There is no question that the access they have and the intelligence they acquire is often invaluable to law enforcement.
July 31, 2007
Patrol
Working Informants
Informants can provide a wealth of information. However, that information can come at a price if you’re not careful how you deal with them. Too many officers fall into a few common traps with informants, leading to bad cases, blown operations or personal complaints against them.
April 30, 2007
Special Units
Taking Gangs to Task
New York detective Ricky Smith has devoted his life to battling for control of the streets.
January 31, 2006
Patrol
Right to Counsel
Law enforcement officers are quite familiar with the court-created "right" to counsel established by the Miranda opinion, to protect the Fifth Amendment trial privilege against compelled self-incrimination. But it applies only during police custodial interrogation.
January 31, 2006
Patrol
One Man, One Bomb
"The threat of suicide bombers in the U.S. is not an 'if' but a 'when,'" read a recent alert to law enforcement that was sent by the California Department of Justice.
August 31, 2002
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Special Units
Breaking and Entering
As the number of tactical teams across the nation has increased for the past several years, the number of lawsuits being brought against tactical teams has also risen dramatically.
April 30, 2002
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Patrol
An Investigator’s Guide to the Methamphetamine Lab
The young children watched cartoons in the living room, while in the kitchen their mother dissolved cold tablets in a jar of denatured alcohol. She had closed up the house to keep the odors inside so her neighbors wouldn't call the police.
November 30, 2000
Recipe for disaster? Cold tablets, containing pseudoephedrine, and common household lye are among the ingredients used to make methamphetamine.
Special Units
Conducting Effective Witness Interviews
The ultimate goal of a gang investiga­tion is to find the truth. What happened? Who did it? How? As law enforcement officers, how do we arrive at the truth? What is our part in the game plan? Here are some suggestions that may be useful for patrol personnel, detectives and fol­low-up investigators when dealing with witnesses and victims of gang crimes.
November 30, 1996
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