DOJ Disperses Crime-Fighting Grants to Cities That Help Feds Crack Down on Illegal Immigration
Local police departments that cooperate with federal immigration officials will be given preferential treatment for crime-fighting funds.
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Justice Department Awards $37M to Address Backlog in Rape Kits
The Justice Department plans to use $37 million to help state, local and tribal governments address a backlog of sexual assault evidence that is preventing the capture of violent offenders.
FBI Offers to Help Local Law Enforcement Unlock iPhones for Investigations
The FBI is offering to help local law enforcement bypass security features on the iPhone.
FBI Wildly Undercounts Number of Police Officers Killed in High-Speed Chases
Although the USA Today has tallied more than 370 police officers who were killed in high-speed chases since 1980, the FBI put the number of fatalities at just 24.
FBI’s Sophisticated Database to Catch Serial Killers, Rapists Is Squandered
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI built a sophisticated database to help catch serial killers and rapists but hardly anyone used it since its launch more than three decades ago, Newsweek reports. The idea was to help local, state and federal law enforcement discern behavioral patterns, like the type of knife used or how a…
FBI Agent Shocked When Cleveland Police Unable to Help Tamir Rice After Shooting
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who made a desperate, last-minute attempt to save the life of Tamir Rice said he was as shocked as anyone that Cleveland Police were unable to properly respond to the 12-year-old boy’s emergency medical needs after officers shot him. The agent, who has not been identified publicly, said…
Opinion: Border Buildup Along Canadian Border Is Excessive
Tom Dennis Grand Forks Herald Helping local law enforcement is all well and good. But that’s not why the United States beefed up the Border Patrol along the Canadian border to 10 times its pre-Sept. 11 size, an expansion. Instead, that expansion from Maine to Washington was done for one and only one reason —…
New Head of FBI Office in Boston Pledges to Continue Probing Boston Marathon Bombing
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Newly appointed chief of Boston’s FBI office, Vincent Lisi, said his office is nowhere close to being finished investigating the Boston marathon bombing shootings, The Boston Globe reports. “We owe that to the victims of the bombing,” Vincent B. Lisi, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI, told the Globe. “Our…
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