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Pasadena PD celebrates 40 years of taking a bite out of crime
This July, McGruff the Crime Dog turned 40, and that’s not in dog years. It was in 1980 that he…
They ride to honor the fallen
This is not a vacation or some fancy bike ride down the coast, Westminster Police Department Sgt. Bill Drinnin said.…
Katie Olson is a natural. Or about as close to it as a sharpshooter’s bullet is to a bullseye. Olson,…
In April 2005, Officer Steve Heine of the GGPD was on a particularly harrowing and agonizing call. An armed man…
Sgt. Mike Gonzalez of the Santa Ana Police Department was in Henderson, Nev. on Friday and Saturday, teaching a Tactical…
The first thing he noticed, after the shots rang out, was a man on his back, about 10 feet to…
Amid the unfolding horror, heroes emerged. Whether it was shouting “get down,” acting as a human shield, helping someone over…
Officer Lindsey Bittorf became an unlikely hero this summer after answering the call to serve and protect. But not in…