Traffic homicide detectives will determine whether to file charges.
When, last year, the Metropolitan police began "advising" cyclists against using headphones as part of a safety crackdown, I asked the head of the Met's traffic unit, Detective Chief Superintendent Glyn Jones, if he knew of a single serious incident involving a cyclist where headphone use had been determined as a factor.
Sheffield-born, he worked as a traffic officer, detective and eventually district commander.
"Traffic was horrible," Detective Keszthelyi recalled.
"All manner of operatives lost their jobs: secret police, counterintelligence officers, special-forces commandos and border guards, as well as homicide detectives and traffic cops," Mr. Glenny writes.
TAMPA, Fla .(AP) — A man accused of killing two Tampa police officers during a traffic stop surrendered after detectives spent more than a day negotiating with an associate of his, police officials said Saturday.
He said detectives should review traffic tickets issued just after the victims disappeared, or when their bodies were dumped.
But City Councilman David Yassky, a Democrat from Brooklyn, argued that buyback programs were ineffective and said the department should assign more detectives to gun trafficking cases to stanch the flow of illegal guns coming into New York City.
A 14-year-old boy charged in the death of a doctoral student at Columbia told the police that he tried to stop the student from dashing into traffic after attacking him, a detective said at the boy's arraignment on Thursday.
After a year and a half of research and interviews, Mary Bonnett, artistic director, Her Story Theater, wrote and created "Shadow Town" a play based on dozens of interviews from people involved with sex trafficking in Chicago including undercover detectives, caseworkers, FBI, vice squad, parents, pimps, therapists and trafficked girls and young women of Chicago.
