How many cities around the world could fall prey to a Mumbai-style attack? How many cities here in the United States? Could a similar attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? These were the questions posed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in an address before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. last week. Muller said that the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 and wounded more than 300 others in Mumbai three months ago “reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact” and that “the simplest …Read more […..]

BY KIM JANSSEN Staff writer Except for the barking dog, nobody was home at Joseph Basile’s dirty-white, single-story home in the 3500 block of John Street in Steger on Wednesday afternoon. Basile was dead, and his dog’s leash was in police custody, at the center of a nightmarish homicide probe. Steger police say members of 90-year-old Basile’s family bound him in duct tape, then lashed him to a recliner with the leash. Officers rescued the grandfather Saturday evening after neighbors discovered him tied up, with bruises and bed sores, and dialed 911. But after three nights at St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Basile, a …Read more […..]

This article was published in the February 2009 issue of AMERICAN POLICE BEAT, a national law enforcement publication. It may be reprinted in whole, or part, in your publication, but it must include the following attribution: “Reprinted with permission of the author and AMERICAN POLICE BEAT.”RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF FEMALE OFFICERS KILLED IN 2008by Craig W. FloydFebruary 2009A convenience store camera had caught the entire incident on videotape-every horror-filled moment. Nicola Cotton, a 24-year-old New Orleans police officer, had been brutally murdered while attempting to arrest a rape suspect. Officer Nicola Cotton It was a …Read more […..]