His name was Patrick Michael Righi-Barnard, "Pat" to his friends and coworkers. Pat was a thirty-year-old police officer with the Burbank, Illinois, Police Department. It was Wednesday, November 24, 2004, the day before Thanksgiving. I was Pat's watch commander and...

You are tooling down Main Street and see the...gentleman...pumping gas into his chopped Harley at the Stop and Rob. Wearing a full beard and hair down to his shoulders, Dirty denim jeans, square-toe boots, a denim vest with some design...

On March 9, 2009, I interviewed three analysts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) on my podcast, "Analysts' Corner" on Blog Talk Radio. As the interview progressed It was immediately apparent to me how law enforcement...

In law enforcement, we always see the ingenuity and creativity of the criminal's mind. Whatever technology is developed, it seems that the criminal element does a bit of their own research and development to defeat the defenses. When a new...

Law enforcement professionals are an odd bunch. Most of what we do revolves around conflict and if we fight, we are going to win and have been given the tools and training to do so. In fact the LEO instincts...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.The shooting at the...

LUBBOCK, Texas Police video shows officers in Texas swimming to a sinking SUV and saving a woman after her vehicle plunged into a small lake.The rescue, videotaped by a patrol car dashboard camera, shows emergency personnel reaching the vehicle and...

A gunman walked into an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton, N.Y. on Friday, killing 13 people and wounding at least four before apparently committing suicide. Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent...

BOGOTA It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface.A Coast Guard ship dispatches an armed...

PITTSBURGH Does the name Byran Uyesugi ring a bell? Odds are not. What about Robert A. Hawkins? Or Mark Barton? Terry Ratzmann? Robert Stewart?Each entered the national consciousness when he picked up a gun and ended multiple lives. Uyesugi, 1999,...