One of the duties we had in the small department where I worked was checking the houses of citizens who were out of town. When the citizen left town, they filled out a card providing information about when they were...

Nestled at the base of the Chugach Mountains along the coast of the Cook Inlet, Anchorage is a city of modern convenience and prehistoric beauty. Located in south central Alaska, Anchorage rests geographically as far north as Helsinki, Finland and...

CHICAGO -- For the first time in recent department history, Chicago cops training at the academy are using the same weapon -- a Glock. Recruits in the current class were required to purchase a Glock 17 or Glock 19 and...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- When Oklahoma City firefighters received a report that a body had been buried in a shallow grave at Lake Overholser, they consulted detailed topographical maps from the field as they pinpointed where to look.That wouldn't have been...

BLUE LAKE, Calif.. -- Just beyond the reach of the North Coast fog, this little community of 1,150 basked until recently under the protection of a police force of just four officers. Four officers packing 31 submachine guns. The Blue...

PINE LAWN -- The police department's two new golf carts were rolled out Monday, and they were quickly put to use. Within the two hours of the carts' debut, the police chief used one to drive through a weeded lot...

KNOXVILLE -- Knoxville Police Department Officer Norman Rickman offered a smile and a thumbs-up sign Monday afternoon as he was wheeled out of the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Rickman, recovering from the second shooting of his 19-year career, wore...

CHICAGO -- A former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to racketeering, admitting he robbed drug dealers of cash numerous times, planted drugs on people he arrested and used fake informants to secure search warrants. Richard Doroniuk,...

Every day, a kid is brought in--head hung, wrists cuffed behind his (or, occasionally, her) back, a police officer on each arm, steering the offender into the small holding room in the basement of Cleveland's Juvenile Detention Center. These are...

BOSTON -- A Boston city councilor wants to outlaw the kind of realistic-looking replica guns an outlaw was wielding last week in a near-fatal confrontation with a cop. Councilor John Tobin is calling for a public hearing to consider measures...