On Monday, the Integrated Riot Investigation Team will recommend more charges against identified rioters. Since June, IRIT has sifted through a mound of digital evidence and has identified more rioters from the Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver than expected. In the beginning of the investigation stage, 40 people were charged. Several hundred more charges are […]
Police and Safeway Grocery Store Get Extreme in Handling ‘Theft’ of Stolen Sandwiches
This story made my mouth fall open. The reaction of a Honolulu Safeway grocery store and the police regarding a couple ‘stealing’ two sandwiches is outrageous! Nicole and Marcin Leszczynski were shopping in Safeway with their two-year-old daughter. Nicole Leszczynski, who is 30-weeks pregnant, was beginning the feel faint and ate a sandwich from the […]
Police Busted for Alleged Gun Smuggling
Eight NYPD officers and one New Jersey corrections officer have been arrested on charges that they were running a gun-smuggling ring that trafficked more than $1 million in illegal weapons and stolen goods. The officers arrested include five active-duty officers assigned to Brooklyn and three retired NYPD officers, although two of the retired officers were active when committing the […]
Home Raided After ‘Heroin for Sale’ Fliers Posted
Here is a story that shows you what can be accomplished when neighbors get involved and work together, and with authorities, to keep their neighborhood safe: A North Portland home was raided last week after fliers throughout the neighborhood advertised drug sales at the address, police said. Of the seven adults inside the home during the raid, […]
Contractors Pitch Spy Technology That Can See Through Walls
It’s known as IBISS, the acronym for the Integrated Building Interior Surveillance System. Like its name suggests, it can see through the walls of buildings and sketch out images of what’s inside. Until this year, IBISS was a classified system, a piece of high-tech wizardry the military used to fight the war on terrorism. The […]