Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Chicago bank teller who was getting robbed gave up more than $1,700. The Chicago Tribune reports that the bank employee also handed the robber a global-positioning system that helped the FBI and local police track him down. The GPS device activated as soon as the robber left the bank, alerting authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What’s Ex-NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik up to since he was released from federal prison after serving about three years? For one, he’s back to running the Kerik Group, that provides security and countterrorism services internationally. He’s also pushing for prison reform. Kerik emailed a press release Sunday stating that he’s pushing…
By Editorial Board The Arizona Republic You might shrug off concerns about how the Border Patrol operates. After all, it’s just the border. Migrants. Smugglers. Lawbreakers. It’s not about you and me. Well, yes it is. We hold police to high standards to protect everyone’s civil rights. Exempting the nation’s largest police force…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent John Wilson didn’t have to see much. “That would not be good proper police procedure,” Wilson testified after watching a surveillance tape of the deadly police encounter, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wilson provided expert testimony in the trial of two Fullerton police officers who are charged in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When someone began pointing a high-powered laser beam at airplanes descending into Portland International Airport, police and FBI agents were determined to capture the perpetrator. The Oregonian reports that agents and police flew planes over the area after dark until they could determine where the big green light was coming from. After…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes are trying to convince a judge to restrict some evidence from being used at trial because of the police’s handling of the investigation, ABC 7 in Denver reported. One of the issues is why police continued to talk to Holmes after his attorney advised…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A shootout between two suspects and the FBI and police ended with one suspect dead and another injured, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The newspaper reported that both men were suspects in murders and robberies across the city and were determined to fight if authorities tried to apprehend them. That’s exactly what happened…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Several websites are reporting that the FBI mailed racist coloring books to white families in the 1960s in an effort to discredit the Black Panthers. The drawings depict black people hitting and shooting police, who are depicted as pigs. Websites such as infoWars.com and AshtarCommandCrew.net claim the coloring book was created by…
