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Perps: Your cellphone’s not your best friend

Burglary case shows how law enforcement can leverage a criminal’s mistakes

September 11, 2019

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

September 7, 2019

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

Humans are much more like computers than light switches.” Las Vegas Police Protective Association President Steve Grammas said this to me as we were speaking recently about a shooting in […] Read More

The emotional toll of being a police officer

August 30, 2019

As the summer months heat up, violent crime will increase significantly in cities across the country, bringing an onslaught of national media coverage about deadly incidents involving the police. Read More

Rebuilding after 9/11

Port Authority P.D. and the leader who helped it recover from devastation

August 29, 2019

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