While firearms training is meant to keep both the police and the public safe, it actually poses a hazard to the officers themselves. For over a year, The Seattle Times has been investigating how people shooting at dirty gun ranges across the U.S. have suffered health problems from lead poisoning.
Law Enforcement
From street cops to the Secret Service, those charged with keeping us safe.
TSA starts giving Breathalyzer tests to some air marshals
In an unusual move, the Transportation Security Administration has started giving breath alcohol tests to some air marshals before they board assigned flights.
Arizona bill would fund predictive policing technology
Senate Bill 1293 would authorize spending $2 million on three one-year pilot projects of predictive policing software in urban and rural areas to generate predictions for various types of crime.
Air marshals say a party-hearty attitude prevails at the agency
Former and current air marshals are coming forward to describe a “wheels-up, rings-off” culture rife with adultery, prostitution and other misconduct.
Rerouted for sex
U.S. air marshals are our law enforcement in the air – and they’re expected to protect us on high-risk flights. But some employees of the Federal Air Marshal Service are suspected of rearranging flights in order to meet for sexual trysts.
House committee launches TSA investigation
The House’s top oversight committee officially launched its investigation into the TSA with bipartisan support, citing allegations that an employee manipulated air marshals’ flight schedules and could have accessed government databases inappropriately.
Congressman says he’ll investigate air marshals’ flight schedules
U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called allegations that Federal Air Marshal Service employees manipulated schedules “salacious” and said he hopes it’s an isolated incident but fears it might not be.
Air marshals’ flight schedules rearranged for trysts, employees say
Federal air marshals assigned to protect commercial flights across the U.S. were furtively pulled from their assigned flights so they could meet for sexual trysts, get better routes or travel to cities they preferred, current and former employees said.
State abuse records will be public after Supreme Court sides with CIR
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Department of Public Health must release records relating to violations at state-run facilities for people with developmental disabilities after CIR’s three-and-a-half-year effort to make the information public.
Data on killings by law enforcement officers incomplete, hard to find
UC Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring, who has written an article on law enforcement officers’ killings of civilians, calls the lack of reliable statistics a scandal and is advocating for a national database of such deaths.