Have you ever received a phone call on your cell phone from a number you didn’t recognize? Not wanting to be rude you answer the phone only to hear the hollow sound of silence in your ear, and you wonder if the person on the other side has hung up…

In this second part on human sex trafficking a series of slides provides the guidance to help identify this violent crime which helps fund gangs and terrorists both domestically, here in the US, and internationally.

As a follow-on to our initial article highlighting the intentional use of fire as a weapon, we thought it’d be interesting to discuss this as it relates to a case closer to home. Imagine that you dropped of your child at their elementary school, as you usually do on your…

Have you ever watched that embarrassing situation when the person in front of you at the grocery store tries to use her debit card to pay and that buzzer sounds alerting the cashier that the transaction has failed? Have you ever been in that embarrassing situation when you took your…

Dispatch: “217D” “217D respond to the Super 8 hotel at 3801 Capital Blvd reference a disturbance. Male and female are arguing outside of room 308.” 217D: “ Copy, enroute” On arrival, patrol unit 217D locates a male and a female still arguing outside of room 308. The female is 17…

The re-emergence of Fire as a Weapon Lately in the fire service, there have been numerous “hot button issues” raised on how to best fight fires and operate at incidents. Using fire as a weapon is one of those topics drawing the attention of first responders. This is illustrated in…

Imagine that you and your family are finally taking the vacation you have always dreamed of; someplace exotic. A year’s worth of frugal saving has paid off and resulted in you, your happy wife and children eagerly settling into the luxurious hotel you “splurgingly” booked, in preparation for an adventurous…