Weekend Series on Law Enforcement History: Nixon Talks to LBJ About J. Edgar Hoover’s Death
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By JENNIFER MEDINA, IAN LOVETT and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS New York Times LOS ANGELES — A Transportation Security Administration officer was killed Friday at Los Angeles International Airport in a shooting that left several other T.S.A. employees injured and led the authorities to evacuate thousands of passengers and temporarily ground all flights there, the authorities said….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Budget cuts in 2014 could mean fewer FBI agents and other reductions to federal law enforcement agencies, CNN reports. “What we’re going to see is really tough decisions, really cutting into the bone of programs,” said Scott Klinger, director of revenue and spending policies at the Center for Effective Government, a budget…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The unsolved case of a baby stolen from his mother in Chicago nearly a half century ago is a nagging mystery to many. Now the FBI says it has “solid new leads” in the 1966 case, ABC News reports. The parents, Chester and Dora Fronczak, thought they found their son Paul in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Law enforcement is a dangerous job, but fewer police officers were killed in the line of duty last year, according to newly released FBI statistics. The bureau reported 95 cop-related deaths in 2012, compared to 125 a year earlier, Phoenix New Times reports. The officers included in the reports are “duly sworn…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder reflected on his life as a black man in a Queens neighborhood, Huffington Post reports. Holder said the experience shed light on the challenges facing African Americans, many of whom ended up in jail when he was growing up. “Kids who I grew up with, who I played…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security employees are helping themselves to unearned overtime, costing the federal agency a lot of money, whistleblowers are reporting, according to the Washington Post. The overtime can add as much as 25% to a paycheck and is used as an incentive for new employees, the Post reported. The federal Office of…