Police News Reports

Police News Reports
Unique law enforcement agency tackles NYC corruption - 08/27/2008
	NEW YORK � A little-known law enforcement agency - the only one of its kind in the country - has been behind some of the most sensational headlines to hit New York City over the last several years. The ... Full story
Q&A about the DNC with Denver PD chief - 08/26/2008
	Lakewood, Col. police patrol outside the barricades surrounding the site of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Police are gearing up for heavy protesting and possible riots as the convention ... Full story
Colleges, cops try to control students off campus - 08/25/2008
	University of Washington Police Officer Russell Ellis, Jr. patrols off-campus in Seattle. With help from police, a growing number of universities are taking a more proactive approach to monitoring off-campus ... Full story
No razor wire at Denver convention holding cells - 08/22/2008
	A member of the Denver County Sheriff Dept. walks through the Arrest Processing Site. The 18-cell facility can hold up to 400 people and will be used as a temporary jail during next week's Democratic National ... Full story
Secret Service's job: Secure political conventions - 08/21/2008
	The upcoming presidential conventions present special security challenges for Secret Service officers in the throes of the longest political campaign in history. (AP Photo) ... Full story
NYPD plan to screen vehicles raises questions - 08/20/2008
	In 2007, NYPD officers checked vehicles emerging from the Holland Tunnel in New York in response to a terrorist threat. A year later, the NYPD is planning to track every vehicle entering Manhattan to screen ... Full story
Texas launches 'Blue Alert' network for line of duty incidents - 08/19/2008
	Texas Gov. Rick Perry (seated) signs an executive order launching the Blue Alert network, which will enable statewide alerts related to offenders who flee after killing or seriously injuring law enforcement ... Full story
More women choosing careers in forensic science - 08/18/2008
	Forensic Scientist Supervisor, Ann Lee Davis (left) instructs trainee Katie Carlson (right) and Jessica Bretz (center) on how to load an AK-47 assault rifle at the Virginia State Forensics lab. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Police: 2 killed in deadly Iowa standoff - 08/15/2008
	Iowa officers investigate a double homicide in Des Moines Thursday where a gunman killed his common-law wife and a witness who watched the shooting. The man also held three children hostage before being ... Full story
Gunman kills Democratic Party chairman, police kill suspect - 08/14/2008
	Police crime scene tape surrounds the Democratic Party of Arkansas headquarters building, where a man killed the state party chairman. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase. (AP ... Full story
Chicago police: Sending troopers is political move - 08/13/2008
	The Chicago police are increasing their presence in the city after a recent study showed homicides rose 18 percent through July compared with 2007. State troopers have begun patrolling high crime areas ... Full story
Riots in Montreal, officer shot after police kill man - 08/12/2008
	Montreal police patrol a back alley after a riot broke out and an officer was shot in the leg Sunday in the same neighborhood where a man was killed by the police a day earlier. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Irving police ready for first 'Texas 7' execution - 08/11/2008
	Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins was killed in Dec. 2000 by Michael Rodriguez, member of the "Texas 7" prison escapees. Rodriguez is set to become the first of the six surviving convicts to be executed ... Full story
Bus crash north of Dallas kills 14 - 08/09/2008
	Emergency response officials rush to the scene of a bus accident where 14 people died and more than 40 were injured early Friday morning in Sherman, Texas. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Man arrested in agent's death - 08/07/2008
	A poster released by the Pembroke Pines Police Dept. shows James Patrick Wonder, who was charged yesterday with first-degree murder in the killing of federal agent Donald Pettit. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Feds crack 'biggest ID fraud case' - 08/06/2008
	U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, left, and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, right, announced today that the Department of Justice charged 11 people in the 'largest-ever' identity theft ... Full story
Off-duty L.A. sheriff's deputy killed in drive by - 08/05/2008
	Xtlalic Huitron, Norma Scalise, Larry Fernandez, and Carlos Carrera (left to right), who worked with slain Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Escalante, gather at his memorial. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Teens charged with murder in death of sheriff's deputy - 08/04/2008
	This photo shows Tommy Dean Barnette (left) and Rakcam Jamall Fleming (right), who have been charged with first degree murder for killing an off-duty sheriff's deputy during an attempted armed robbery. ... Full story
Chinese officials assess Olympics terrorist threat - 08/04/2008
	A Chinese police SWAT team member cleans an armored vehicle outside the hotel where International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge and other IOC officials are staying. (AP Photo) ... Full story
Police arrest Canadian bus attack suspect - 08/02/2008
	TORONTO � A 40-year-old man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded the man sitting next to him on a Greyhound bus in Canada has been charged with second-degree murder, police said Friday. Vince Weiguang ... Full story