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Alabama Releases Over-the-Top Instructional Video on Mass Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Alabama Department of Homeland Security released an unusual instructional video on how respond to a mass shooting, Gawker reports. With haunting music and blood spatter, the six-minute video “scares the shit out of everyone who watches it,” Gawker reported. The video, produced originally by the Houston Police Department, depicts an office…
FBI Agents Association Backs Bill Authorizing Feds to Help Probe Mass Shootings
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI Agents Association is supporting a bill that would authorize federal agents to respond and help local authorities during mass shootings and other violence at a public place, the Washington Times reports. The association, which announced its support Wednesday, said the bill would make it easier for feds to help local…
Record Number of Background Checks Performed on Prospective Gun Owners in 2012
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI performed a record number of background checks on people who wanted to buy guns in December and all of 2012, CNN reports. The spike this month – 2.8 million background checks – occurred during two high-profile mass shootings. The number of background checks for the years totaled more than 19.5…
FBI Lists Most Significant Cases of 2012
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com From espionage to cyber hacking, the FBI has taken on a lot of significant cases in 2012. The following list was posted by the FBI. Insider trading: Charges against seven investment professionals were announced in New York in January alleging an insider trading scheme that netted nearly $62 million in illegal profits….
Behind-the-Scenes Look at FBI Providing Counterterrorism Security at Times Square
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While more than one billion people tuned in to watch the ball drop at Times Square on New Year’s eve, a massive counterterrorism operation was underway. CBS News went behind the scenes to see how the FBI keeps the city safe during one of the busiest nights of the year. “It’s a…
FBI Launches Another Investigation Involving Trenton City Hall
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trenton, N.J. housing projects started under former Mayor Douglas Palmer are the subject of an FBI corruption investigation, the Trenton Times reports. Developer Robert Kahan, who was involved in all five projects, is named in the subpoena obtained by the Trenton Times. Palmer, who often used Kahan as a developer, told the…
FBI Lists Top Terrorism Cases of 2012
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
Head of Newark FBI, Michael Ward, to Retire
By Jason Grant The Star Ledger NEWARK — The head of the Newark Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will retire from government service on Dec. 31, the agency announced today. Michael Ward had not indicated in recent weeks or months that he would be leaving the post and retiring from government service. A…