Category Archives: Law-Enforcement

Support for Homeland Heroes

Did you know that around 38% of Fire Rescue personnel and 32% of Emergency Dispatchers suffer from symptoms of PTSD? Or that every 17 hours a law enforcement officer takes his or her own life? The suicide rate among correctional …

How Police and Detectives Deal with Stress and Trauma

In a Business Insider profile of the NYPD’s Special Victims Division, Christopher Dickey describes detectives that work extremely long hours, who resort to sleeping on cots at the station and who deal with hundreds of horrific or disturbing sex crime …

Law Enforcement Steps Up for Fourth of July

Tomorrow Americans will fire up the barbecue, set up their lawn chairs along parade routes, attend spectacular firework shows and wear or wave the ‘red, white and blue’. These community-minded celebrations stem from Thomas Jefferson’s tireless drafting of the Declaration …

West Virginia State Police Chase “Naked Bunny”

I don’t know how much of this story is true, but since it’s Friday I thought I’d share a lighthearted story!  Do you have a caption idea?  Share it on our Facebook page. West Virginia State Police Officer “Bubba” Caldwell …

How K-9 Dogs Are Trained

Warden Paul Cardoza of the California Department of Fish and Game has one of the most loyal partners there is. His colleague is named Kilo, a German Shepherd-Malinois mix, and has been devotedly helping Cardoza catch numerous poachers and work …

Possible Lead in Etan Patz Case?

On May 25, 1979, a six-year old boy vanished from his SoHo neighborhood never to be seen again except on milk cartons across the country. It was young Etan Patz’s first time walking to the bus stop by himself, a …

Saint Patrick’s Day Parades Across the U.S.

Everybody is Irish this weekend as the country will soon launch into Saint Patrick’s Day festivities, from pubs serving up Celtic tunes and green ales to some municipalities dying their water systems the emerald shade. The United States hosts some …