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 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 Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the hacking thefts of credit cards, email messages and other information from websites of rural law enforcement departments, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that the hackers collective Anonymous said Saturday it attacked 70 websites of law enforcement departments in retaliation for the arrests of some of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI can now automatically share information with local, state, regional and other law-enforcement agencies, the website InformationWeek reported. The publication reported that Raytheon said it finished — albeit late — its final phase of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) system, InformationWeek reported The system enables the FBI to distribute information…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bad news for U.S. law enforcement. For the second year in a row, law enforcement fatalities — from shootings to traffic incidents –rose sharply nationwide during the first half of 2011. The figure included 40 officers killed by gunfire, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). The fund…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Fifty six law enforcement officers were “feloniously killed” killed in 2010, including U.S. Border agent Brian Terry, up from 48 in 2009, according to preliminary statistics released Monday by the FBI. Of the 56 felonious deaths: 15 officers were killed during ambushes. 8 were investigating suspicious persons or circumstances….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise considering the frequency of attempted terrorist attacks within the U.S. in the past year. CNN reports that an unclassified Department of Homeland Security memo dated May 21 to law enforcement says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine…
