Behind the Badge
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The homicide rate continues to rise, but what can the police do?
Stories about the sharp rise in violent crime seem to be on every news broadcast and posted across social media…
‘Operation Community First’ results: gun seizures up, homicides down
As Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin chatted with a writer, a report came across his desk. His department had…
The aging kitchen, built in the early 1960s at Anaheim Fire & Rescue’s Station 7, may be seriously old school…
If you happen to live in the Brooklyn Park area, you might have noticed a hand-written sign that reads: Lemonade…
He was used to living in cramped quarters, sharing a 400-square-foot apartment in West Hollywood with his mother. A gun…
Cindy Gray wasn’t yet part of the Westminster PD when she first heard of its Community Academy. She was living…
He’s delivered babies, changed lives, arrested criminals, worked with students, taught law enforcement officers, worked as a narcotics detective, helped…
Officer Sharnise Hawkins-Graham was heading home after a ceremony when she was alerted to help an unusual citizen: a snapping…