Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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Firefighters, stunned by their chief taking ill, immediately realized what was happening and used a defibrillator on him and performed CPR to restore a normal heart rhythm.
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Firefighters and deputies quick to the scene soon knew the fire was on a potentially deadly collision course with thousands of residents.
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After all the winning bids were compiled, the total project cost came in at $3,134,534.
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There were no smartphones or social media sites like Facebook and Twitter before 9/11.
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The research also reveals that other disorders, such as heart stiffening, are occurring at younger ages among first responders, recovery workers and some residents of lower Manhattan who are part of the WTC monitoring program.
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Last year, the agencies began deploying vehicles carrying one officer from each organization. Ten so-called Cortina units — Cortina is Spanish for curtain — now work the border each shift to intercept people and drugs entering the U.S. illegally.
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The Mayor’s Remembrance Walk grew out of a national movement to establish local “freedom” marches in every state to memorialize 9/11 victims.
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The exponential escalation of mobile computing and analytics has given officers intelligence on the go and greatly improved their chances of being in the right place at the right time.
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One of the lessons attendees took away from the Orlando training session was the high level of coordination that has to take place after such a catastrophic event.
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With four months left in 2016, there have been 150 shootings and 47 slayings in the city of 216,000 residents. It had 44 homicides all of last year.
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'It’s a hard way to live, wondering if that one cramp in your leg or a cough is the onset of your turn with some of the 9/11 illnesses that kill” so many responders.
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At least one shooter is allegedly dead by what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ElPasoProud.com reports.
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Foreign policy was barely discussed during the 2000 presidential election. The world was going our way. Then it happened.
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Reports of staff members being struck or injured by students or colleagues are up in the Anoka-Hennepin and Minneapolis school districts.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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Dispute over Harris County, Texas, jail video highlights the growing prevalence of using videotape to review actions by officers in making arrests and by detention officers in their treatment of inmates in jail.
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It’s 'not so much hate as trying to understand in my mind — why?' 'What did it accomplish murdering all those people? It didn’t accomplish anything.'
