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Unique elements. Several United States police forces are known for unique uniform items not commonly used by other departments. Police uniforms in Chicago and Pittsburgh feature peaked hats incorporating the Sillitoe tartan checkerboard design, similar to taxicab decor. The Washington State Patrol and New Mexico State Police wear bow ties.
Perp walk. A perp walk, walking the perp, [note 1] or frog march, is a practice in law enforcement of taking an arrested suspect, usually right after arrest, out in public, usually from the police station to the vehicle to the courthouse and then after the court hearing back to the vehicle, creating an opportunity for a media frenzy to take ...
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout occurred on April 11, 1986, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S. (the specific area was incorporated as Pinecrest in 1996), when a small group of field agents for the FBI attempted to apprehend William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, who were suspected of committing a series of violent crimes in and around the Miami metropolitan area.
The two images were released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday in a community alert seeking help in identifying the suspects. One image shows the vehicle, described as a stolen 2018 ...
D. B. Cooper. D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom ...
The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...
Sgt. Dan Wade, the Public Information Officer for the West Des Moines Police Department, said the incident began around 2:00 a.m. when an officer responded to the area of S. 60th and Village View ...
Sandra Lynne Hemme (overturned) Patricia Jeschke was an American woman murdered in St. Joseph, Missouri, on November 12, 1980. An investigation led by Lloyd Pasley arrested Joseph Wabski and Sandra Hemme for the murder and Hemme was convicted for Jeschke's murder in 1981. However, Hemme recanted her confession and a new trial was held in 1985 ...