By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Detroit cop Patrick Hill — part of an ATF violent crime task force — was critically wounded in a shootout with a murder suspect about four weeks ago on Detroit’s west side. On Saturday night, while he remained hospitalized in critical condition, suffering from head wounds, his fellow…
John Kerr, an FBI agent for nearly 22 years, investigated violent crime and counterterrorism. He retired from the bureau in Washington in December 2008. His column is in response to a ticklethewire.com column that commented on the mass shootings in this country and the need for law enforcement to look at mental illness as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Crime rates in 2011 fell to near historic lows, according to the FBI. Preliminary figures released Monday show violent crimes and property crimes reported dropped in 2011 compared to the previous year. Specifically, violent crimes fell 4 percent and property crimes dropped 0.8 percent. In the violent crime offenses category, murder…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A six-year sentence was handed down to Santa Barbara County, Calif., resident Eugene Darryl Temkin, 51, who solicited an FBI informant posing as a “hitman” to murder several individuals, the FBI announced on Monday. A judge found Temkin guilty of soliciting a crime in violence, attempting to interfere with interstate commerce…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Five members of the cartel-like Los Palillos gang, a blight on life in San Diego, remain at large while the FBI continues searching for them, reports 10 News. “It’s as if a group of serial killers moved from Tijuana into San Diego and started murdering citizens here,” deputy district attorney Mark…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com American streets may become much more dangerous. Military.com reports that, according to the latest National Gang Intelligence Center Report (NGIC), American street gangs are acquiring high-powered, military-grade weapons with increasing frequency, the result of gang members both enlisted and working as contract civilians at military bases who may be funneling the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Is extremism on the rise in the Northwest part of the country? A report from the Columbian newspaper out of Vancouver, Wash., seems to point to that. One example: As a house in Washougal, Wash., burned to the ground recently a self-proclaimed white separatist shot at firefighters to keep them away,…
