According to an article in The Long Beach Post, Long Beach police officers, elected officials and prosecutors have filed a comprehensive gang injunction designed to target local violent street gangs with ties to the Mexican Mafia. Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, Police Chief Jim McDonnell and City Prosecutor Doug Haubert described the initiative at a recent press conference.

While media and collegiate officials debated how best to handle the Penn State child-rape scandal, including the systemic cover-up by university leaders, others want the public to know just how such abuse ruins lives.
“I’ve heard commentators say things like, ‘What’s done is done,’ or ‘There’s no one left to go after,’ or ‘Why punish the students and the athletes? – It’s time to heal,’ ” says child advocate Linda O’Dochartaigh, whose novel Peregrine  details the stark aftermath of child sex abuse.

A jury awarded a catastrophically injured man and his wife more than $31.5 million recently in a ruling against Caltrans, finding the state agency responsible for a dangerous roadway condition on a section of California State Route 138. The accident occurred at the intersection of SR 138 and Mountain Road on April 29, 2009, causing severe brain and spinal cord injuries to David Evans, who will require 24-hour nursing care for the rest of his life.

One might think that with the billions upon billions of tax dollars spent over the last decade in order to “secure the homeland,” that suspicious devices are being taken very seriously and that sketchy foreign nationals are no longer training at flight schools. You know, like the 9/11 hijackers? Sadly that just doesn’t seem to be the case. A new report from the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security rips the handling of an improvised explosive device found outside a federal building in Detroit in 2011.

At least 18 cops in China risked life and limb to save a woman they thought was drowning. Turns out she was floating, not drowning, because the “victim” was an inflatable sex doll.

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for cellphone records in 2011, according to carriers' responses to Congressional representative to Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) letters. The requests include those seeking location data and the contents of text messages as well as wiretaps.

FBI agents recently searched offices in Trenton City Hall in New Jersey just one day after the feds raided the home of Trenton's mayor. Trenton Mayor Tony Mack’s two-year administration of New Jersey's impoverished capital city has been the source of the allegations of nepotism, mismanagement and reckless spending.

If it’s good enough for Iraq, Afghanistan and whatever's next, it’s good enough for Philly. According to the Wall Street Journal, the crime-plagued streets of Philadelphia are about to get some federal attention. Federal authorities and Philadelphia City officials say they’ve started a law-enforcement "surge" strategy to combat high rates of murder.

According to an article from PR Newswire, a controversial use of Illinois' eavesdropping law - prosecuting civilians for audio recording police officers conducting their public duties in a public place - cannot be enforced against the ACLU and its employees for the foreseeable future. This order, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, will remain in place until the district judge makes a final ruling.

There’s an infamous YouTube video of a cop and a group of kids on skateboards that’s a great example of how not to call attention to yourself and your agency. A much better approach can be found in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Officer Jenny Jenkins knows that skateboarders probably look at her with apprehension when she rolls up. It doesn’t take her very long to win the kids over.