Smart doorbells: Help or hindrance for police?
Earlier this year, a California woman called 9-1-1 in a panic, begging for help. She’d just checked footage from her home’s doorbell camera and seen a strange person entering the […] Read More
September 2019
Perps: Your cellphone’s not your best friend
Burglary case shows how law enforcement can leverage a criminal’s mistakes
In today’s world of electronic surveillance, we all know it is almost impossible to escape the fact that, no matter where you happen to be, there is a chance you […] Read More
Too hot to handle
Summer weekend crime called on account of weather
You know it’s hot outside when police departments make public pleas for criminals to stay inside. During the third weekend in July, more than 157 million Americans were trapped […] Read More
Rebuilding after 9/11
Port Authority P.D. and the leader who helped it recover from devastation
On September 11, 2001, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) suffered the greatest number of line-of-duty deaths in a single incident in the history […] Read More
