By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — Times are tough. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder brought that point home Monday morning as he spoke to a large audience at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago about the state of law enforcement in the country as departments face budget cuts. Holder said nearly 12,000 police…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Who knew an advisory roll could pay out so well? Hajime Sagawa and Akio Nakagawa, two Japanese bankers, spent their career moving from firm to firm on Wall Street, reports the New York Times. Then, when advising the Japanese company Olympus–largely successful in medical equipment but better known as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gangs across the U.S. are continuing to expand, with some even moving into white collar crimes like mortgage fraud and counterfeiting, alien smuggling and human trafficking, according to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), the FBI said. “Gangs continue to expand, evolve,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fifty-six law enforcement officers in 22 states and Puerto Rico were “feloniously killed” in 2010, up from 48 the year before, the FBI reported. The annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report released Monday also showed more than 53,000 officers were assaulted in 2010. An FBI press release summed up…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com New documents have been obtained by the ACLU which Salon.com said over the weekend point to the FBI’s use of “industrial scale racial profiling.” The documents are related to an FBI program that used demographic information to map ethnic and racial communities and the criminal activities related to each group,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — The FBI has decided to step in after the Chicago police department cleared a cop who fatally shot an unarmed suspect seven times, NBC Chicago reported. Officer Gildardo Sierra fired at Flint Farmer in June and then fired some more after Farmer was already shot and lying on his…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There has been an avalanche of opinions voiced by ex-FBI agents and current ones over the film “J Edgar” and his portrayal as being gay. Now, some Gay rights advocates are weighing in. “I don’t know specifically why current officers object to the claim that Hoover was gay,” Jacob Appel, a…
