Law enforcement

This is the job many have dreamed about, some since they were children. Maybe, after years in the field, you remember the first time you put on a police uniform and the gravitas hit you—you are responsible for the safety of others. You are now part of an institution...

It all sounded nebulous at the beginning. Most of us were suspicious about “the cloud” because we were worried our data would end up floating off to some remote land. We may have started using Google Drive, Dropbox, or other applications without realizing how this...

The “do it yourself” movement is good in some instances, but the downside is that it has increasingly led people to believe they don’t need a professional or any training of their own to complete a complex task. This is especially true when people can purchase...

He still has fragments of bullets in his head. Now over eighty-years-old, Frank Serpico doesn’t forget and some people won’t let him. The former NYPD detective whistleblower was an undercover cop who became aware of widespread police corruption in his department in...

Receiving a certificate to hang on your office wall is a wonderful feeling. It shows you have worked hard and attained recognition in a specialized area of knowledge. In the daily routine of life, though, maybe you have forgotten about that framed document. Stop and...

Most people get a better sense of a person when meeting them face-to-face. The person sitting across from us in an interview may steeple their fingers in a show of confidence or cross their arms over their chest defensively. But interviewing someone over the phone is...

Somewhere on a dusty shelf in a police agency is a box of files containing the tragic story of someone’s lost loved one. Those black and white crime scene photos tell of a woman who never got to meet her grandchildren or a man who's been buried for a decade. There are...

During the recent presidential race, how many of the candidates’ statements did you look up to see if they were true? Did you find some lies? In a world filled with misinformation and deceiving appearances, we have all essentially become fact checkers. Never trust a...

Over the holidays, while you have been celebrating surrounded by the warmth of family and friends, someone else is eating dinner with murderers, rapists, and thieves. This person isn’t one of them; he or she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or perhaps...

The image of the police detective or PI lurking in dark corners to secretly record a conversation is the stuff of film noir. But while it may not be as melodramatic, real law enforcement officials also, on occasion, have to act surreptitiously in their investigations....