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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…
A standoff between a hammer-wielding man and a Florida Bay County Sheriff’s deputy had an unusual ending when two cans…
In Punjab, the heart of India’s Sikh community, adherents of the 500-year-old faith wear a dastaar, or turban, as a symbol of…
The gap in his teeth matched the size of his grin: Wide. Roque Antonio, 6, still is in the process…
In a world in which bullying and school shooting threats are a common occurrence, school resource officers (SROs) are more…
Bill Maher did a segment on the Friday edition of Real Time with Bill Maher on what he felt are the…
More than 200 law enforcement agencies in Southern California, including roughly two-dozen in Orange County, participate each year in the…