Jun 28, 2017
Two years after creating a dedicated human-trafficking unit, District Attorney George Brauchler has hired a recognized expert to help lead it. Denver police veteran Daniel Steele joins the team as a criminal investigator with more than 20 years of experience. At DPD,...
Jun 26, 2017
On the Far North Side, about 70 members of a controversial new community watch group walk the West Rogers Park neighborhood in orange jackets that were paid for, in part, by the Chicago Police Department. The police sergeant who spearheaded the effort sees the watch...
Jun 20, 2017
OWH Persistence is a virtue, Lee Polikov might have thought in March as he sat around a table at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., discussing issues with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Polikov’s road to one of the inner sanctums of American...
Jun 16, 2017
Times Jamison Bell is a good listener. In the recreation yard of the Pinellas County Jail, one inmate told him about stabbing a neighbor at a mobile home park. Inside a cell, another confided in Bell that he killed a man who owed him money for cocaine. View Full...
Jun 15, 2017
Reuters Police officers in the state of Nevada may soon be required to wear body cameras under a measure that was sent on Thursday to Governor Brian Sandoval for his signature. The proposal, approved by the state legislature, would make Nevada the second state in the...
Jun 13, 2017
OWH 6/13/17 Turns out, there’s a reason authorities want felons’ DNA. A recent push by Douglas County prosecutors to have prison officials collect the DNA of refusing prisoners netted a huge result Monday: Tests have connected a child rapist now in prison to the...
Jun 12, 2017
OWH 6/11/17 Slow down. Give the person space. Talk to him respectfully. That’s how police are advised to respond to an uncooperative person — someone like Zachary Bearheels — who is mentally ill. The primary goal: De-escalate the situation. View Full...
Jun 9, 2017
OWH 06/09/17 Nebraska prison officials say the number of inmates refusing to provide DNA samples has dropped to just 13 — as the State Corrections Department works to remedy missteps 20 years in the making. After a World-Herald investigation in April, department...
Jun 7, 2017
A pistol the size of your smartphone could be available to the public as soon as this summer. The concept is called “Ideal Conceal.” View Full Report
Jun 6, 2017
Twenty-one days past its self-appointed deadline, the Trump administration Thursday ordered a cybersecurity overhaul that mandates broad reviews of the nation’s cyber vulnerabilities and gives the military greater responsibility for the safety of computer networks....
