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Training

71% of Chicago PD Exam Applicants Are Minorities After Outreach

An unprecedented outreach campaign to diversify the Chicago Police Department has attracted 14,200 applicants for the April 16 police exam — and of those, 29% are African-American and 39% are Hispanic.

February 23, 2016

Patrol

Dallas Police Excessive-Force Complaints Drop Dramatically

Dallas Police Chief David Brown says his agency's shift toward de-escalation is driving a sharp drop in excessive-force complaints against officers.So far this year, 13 have been filed — on pace to be the lowest number in at least two decades.

November 17, 2015

Patrol

Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Frequent?

Between a 2011 shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., that left four people dead and the 2013 attack on the Washington Navy Yard where 12 people were killed, a mass shooting occurred somewhere in America once every 64 days, on average.

June 22, 2015

Patrol

Study: Heroin Use Higher Than a Decade Ago

Far more people in the USA use heroin than a decade ago, a study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found.

April 23, 2015

Patrol

Stopping Fatal Trends

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, in the first half of 2014 officer fatalities increased 31% over the same time period in 2013. The only thing we can do is train for the unexpected, and prepare ourselves for that one day that may never happen.

October 7, 2014

Patrol

Survey: Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization

A majority of Americans support making marijuana legal, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. For the first time in its 40 years of polling, a majority of respondents (52%) said they would support legalizing marijuana.

April 4, 2013

Patrol

Report: Mexican Immigration Wave Has Ended

The largest wave of immigration from a single county to the United States has reached a statistical standstill, as the net migration flow from Mexico has stopped, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

April 23, 2012

Technology

Report: Dash Cam Goes HD

The high definition (HD) in-car police video surveillance market in the United States will grow more than 20% in the next four years, despite decreasing police department budgets, according to a report by IMS Research.

February 7, 2012

Patrol

Report: 60% of Adult Illegals In U.S for 10 Years

More than 60% of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years and nearly half have minor children, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

December 1, 2011

Patrol

Violent Crime and Property Crime Fall Again, FBI Says

Violent crime fell an estimated 5.3 percent drop in 2009 from 2008. Property crime fell for a seventh straight year with an estimated 4.6 percent decrease.

September 12, 2010

Patrol

Illegal Immigration Declines, Except In Texas

Texas didn't show a decline in the most recent period of study, 2007 to 2009. Instead it showed an increase of 200,000, which the reports' authors said was not statistically significant.

August 31, 2010

Patrol

California Pot Farm Fire Reveals Troubling Trend

Narcotics agents said Tuesday they had little doubt that the nearly 90,000-acre La Brea fire in California was started by Mexican drug traffickers who were tending a large, sophisticated marijuana farm planted on the side of a mountain in the Los Padres National Forest.

August 19, 2009