FBI Report: 48 Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed in 2009: The FBI yesterday released its annual edition of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted in the line of duty. The survey reports that 48 officers were feloniously killed, 47 died as a result of accidents, and 57,268 were assaulted. Of the 41 suspects identified in connection with the felonious deaths, 33 of the assailants had prior criminal records and 13 were under judicial supervision.
Decline in Arrests at US-Mexican Border: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday announced a 17% drop in arrests by Border Patrol, marking the fifth straight year of declines. Napolitano attributed the decline in large part to Obama's beefed-up manpower along the border, but others point to the struggling U.S. economy as the main reason for the drop. The AP has this story.
Ex-Death Row Inmate Avoids Prison Again: The Omaha World-Herald (NE) reports that ex-death row inmate Jeremy Sheets once again avoided a prison term, receiving probation for threatening a teenage girl with a knife in a Colorado parking lot. Sheets was previously accused of abducting a teenage girl from a school parking lot in 1992, raping her, and stabbing her to death. He was originally convicted of murder and sat on Nebraska's death row until the state Supreme Court reversed his conviction in 2001, based on the improper introduction of a co-conspirator's taped confession at trial.
Decline in Arrests at US-Mexican Border: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday announced a 17% drop in arrests by Border Patrol, marking the fifth straight year of declines. Napolitano attributed the decline in large part to Obama's beefed-up manpower along the border, but others point to the struggling U.S. economy as the main reason for the drop. The AP has this story.
Ex-Death Row Inmate Avoids Prison Again: The Omaha World-Herald (NE) reports that ex-death row inmate Jeremy Sheets once again avoided a prison term, receiving probation for threatening a teenage girl with a knife in a Colorado parking lot. Sheets was previously accused of abducting a teenage girl from a school parking lot in 1992, raping her, and stabbing her to death. He was originally convicted of murder and sat on Nebraska's death row until the state Supreme Court reversed his conviction in 2001, based on the improper introduction of a co-conspirator's taped confession at trial.
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