NewsWatch
02
Feb 2011
For the second time in less than two years, California prison officials caught Charles Manson, mastermind of one of the most notorious killing sprees in U.S. history, with a cellphone behind bars.
Guards at Corcoran State Prison found the...
02
Feb 2011
Gang-unit LAPD officers search a South Los Angeles apartment. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
The Los Angeles Police Department has temporarily dismantled anti-gang units in several of its most crime-plagued neighborhoods...
01
Feb 2011
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has announced the selection of Cobham to supply Synthetic Vision Electronic Flight Instrument Systems (EFIS) for their fleet of Eurocopter and Bell helicopters.
LAPD is the largest municipal...
01
Feb 2011
(Image via Flickr-stevelyon)
Every year the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) releases figures on the number of American police officers killed in the line of duty. Last year the figures were particularly grim....