Carole Moore
Missing Persons Contributor
Officer.com

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently announced that VICAP, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, is about to debut online. It’s about time.

Developed in 1985 to give law enforcement a vehicle for tracking and, hopefully, identifying, serial killers and murderers on the move, VICAP now functions as a central repository for information on many different types of cases, including missing persons, child abductions and unidentified recovered remains. Read the rest of this entry »

Frank Borelli
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com

Let’s face it, as wrong as stereotyping people can be it still occurs all the time. Quite frequently it’s a joke. Heck, Jeff Foxworthy has gotten rich off of stereotyping rednecks. I laugh hard even though many of his redneck stereotype statements apply to me! So when one of the Officer.com feature articles was about Cop Stereotypes I found it both humorous and enlightening. Read the rest of this entry »

Karen Bune
Victimology Contributor
Officer.com

Chief Melvin High had a tough job in county with significant violence.

It’s not an easy job being a police chief under any circumstances in any jurisdiction. Some geographic areas may be tougher than others, and some may present different and, perhaps, more diverse challenges, but the bottom line is that it is a demanding job. If anyone knows that to be true, it is Chief Melvin High of the Prince George’s County Maryland Police Department. High, with 40 years of experience in law enforcement, has been around. He served as former Assistant Chief of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, Chief of the Norfolk Virginia Police Department, and for the past 5 years, he has been the Chief in Prince George’s County, Md. Read the rest of this entry »