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Deputies Exonerated In Shooting of Mayor's Dogs

The Prince George's County sheriff's office has concluded that SWAT deputies did nothing wrong when they charged into the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a drug investigation last summer and fatally shot his family's two dogs, the Washington Post reports.

June 23, 2009

Special Units

Suicide Ends Manhunt in Philly Kmart Shooting

The man accused of shooting a Kmart store worker Tuesday shot and killed himself yesterday as police tried to arrest him in Northeast Philadelphia.

December 3, 2008

Patrol

Modular Shoot House

RATPAC

RATPAC is a totally reconfigurable modular shoot house designed for police, soldiers, and drug-enforcement personnel. RATPAC (an acronym for Reconfigurable Armored Tactical Personnel And Collective) is an easily transportable modular building constructed with pre-fabricated units that are reconfigurable internally and externally.

May 31, 2007

Special Units

Responding to School Sieges

Someday in the near future, an American community—probably far from an urban center—will find that one of its schools has been taken over by Muslim terrorists who are holding the students hostage. The time for American law enforcement officers to think about this possibility and train how to respond to it is now.

August 31, 2006

Special Units

Knock Before Entry

Is it always necessary to comply with knock notice before forcing entry to serve a search warrant?

January 31, 2004

Patrol

Structure Searches

Thousands of times a day in this country peace officers search homes, businesses, schools, and other structures for hidden offenders. Structure searches can turn into a high-risk assignment for the officers performing them.

August 31, 2003

Special Units

Preventing Training Tragedies: Living And Dying On The Edge

The danger is, of course, part of the appeal of being a SWAT officer. But it's also why SWAT training must be approached with the greatest level of precision and precaution.

December 31, 2002

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

Special Units

Repercussions

On a muggy summer night in Georgia, it feels like you can reach out and squeeze water out of the air. Such were the conditions on July 23, 1999, when officer Jorge Mestre of the Cobb County Police Department was dispatched to a house in the Atlanta suburb of Austell, Ga.

February 28, 2002

Patrol

Sometimes it’s hard to tell who the bad guys are

Just Give Me A Hundred Good Cops, And a ton of ammunition... That's what I was thinkin' when I reviewed the situation in Lagos, Nigeria.

February 1, 2002