Your chances of encountering a smash-and-grab are rare, but if…
0The odds of being caught up in a smash-and-grab robbery during the holiday season are small — though if you were to watch television news in the summer you might think otherwise. The brazen robberies, which seemed to peak between July and September, are still on the minds of shoppers, retailers, and police with the arrival of the holiday shopping season, when stores are packed with shoppers and merchandise. Smash-and-grabs are high profile robberies where groups of thieves, often brandishing hammers, crowbars, and other tools, strike higher-end retail stores and make off with merchandise. Sometimes these are organized crews, sometimes they…
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A historically bad winter with storms and flooding, preceded by several years of record wildfire seasons, have tested Californians and…
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On Tuesday, a delegation of 15 international chiefs of police and sheriffs joined an estimated 10,000 thousand Jewish people and…
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Santa Ana Police Detective Eva Lopez was nearly at a loss for words as she recovered from her early morning…
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The Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup is one of the great true grit in athletic events in law enforcement, testing…