By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Anthony J. Porvaznik was deployed to Bolivia in 1992 to crack down on raw materials being sold for drugs, he said he learned an important less of being a part of Border Patrol. “That experience taught me to emphasize the safety and value of the officers serving,” Porvaznik told the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of law enforcement officers “feloniously” killed in 2014 jumped 89% over the past year, according to new FBI statistics that come just a week after the fatal shootings of an officer in New York City and two officers in Hattiesburg, Miss., the FBI reported. The FBI recorded 51 felonious…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the biggest criticisms of federal law enforcement in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, was the lack of communication that could have helped authorities foil the attack. But the communication lapses continue, most recently when police in Garland, Texas, never received an FBI bulletin that specifically warned of one…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has postponed a civil case involving the Oklahoma City bombing following claims that the FBI had threatened a witness in an attempt to keep him from testifying, Fox 13 Salt Lake City reports. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups appointed a “special master” to monitor the investigation, which is…
