“Even being on the bottom, [the officer] was in more control than the aggressor,” said Officer Adam Sears, who leads the Gracie Survival Tactics training for the LMPD

LOS ANGELES – William Lester Suff is a serial killer who was previously convicted of murdering 12 women. Now he has confessed to the cold case homicide of a 19-year-old woman in California in 1986, authorities confirmed. In February 1986, 19-year-old Cathy Small was found stabbed to death on a street in South Pasadena. Sadly, Read More >

By Hayley Feland Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was released Tuesday after serving time in prison in connection to the death of George Floyd. “Four years as a pariah, four years without income, four years of fear and the prospect of no career, no future. Even so, Thomas is determined to rebuild his life,” Read More >

Thomas Lane was convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison; he has been released to supervision, with one year left in his state sentence

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A business professor at Arizona State University is accused of fatally shooting his wife at their private residence while the couple’s two teenage children were home, according to law enforcement authorities. David Zhu, a professor at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, reportedly blasted his wife, Read More >

It’s time for all law enforcement agencies to modify physical fitness training to meet the challenges of the vertical mile

Tragedy struck the small town of Manassas, Virginia, on August 19, 1984, when Virginia State Trooper Johnny Rush Bowman, 31, was brutally stabbed to death in his home during the early hours. At 0415, the assailant rang the doorbell. Bowman answered the door dressed in athletic shorts, a T-shirt and sneakers. The assailant stabbed Bowman Read More >

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. – A deputy in Georgia was shot and killed Saturday evening in what Paulding County authorities are saying appeared to be an “ambush” as he was responding to a call of domestic violence. Deputy Brandon Cunningham, 30, of the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office was shot during an incident in the town of Read More >

Deputy Brandon Cunningham, 30, had been with the Paulding County Sheriff’s office for just over four years and was the father of two

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A decade ago I was on the ground covering the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Other than the burned and boarded-up buildings the street had an almost carnival-like atmosphere. Families were meandering complete with baby carriages and school-aged children periodically raised their hands in the “hands up, don’t shoot” Read More >