Vocapedia > USA > Violence > Police officers

Lt. Ken Landwehr

Photograph: Mike Hutmacher

The Wichita Eagle,

via Associated Press

Ken Landwehr,

Who Played Key Role in Capture of Serial Killer, Dies at 59

NYT

January 15, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16
/us/ken-landwehr-who-played-key-role-in-capture-of-serial-killer-dies-at-59.html

public safety

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/us/
In-Cash-Starved-Oregon-County-Citizens-Take-Up-Patrols.html

fight crime

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/nyregion/
overrun-by-crime-camden-trades-in-its-police-force.html

curb crime

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/us/
john-f-timoney-police-official-who-tackled-crime-in-3-cities-dies-at-68.html

crime > one of the most influential theories

of crime and policing in America: "broken windows."

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/
500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-
and-how-it-went-wrong

movies > 2002 > police department > Pre-Crime / precrime >

Minority Report        USA

Minority Report

is a 2002 American science fiction action film

directed by Steven Spielberg

and loosely based on the 1956 short story

"The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)

movies > 1971 > A Clockwork Orange        USA

A Clockwork Orange

is a 1971 dystopian crime film

written, produced,

and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

It is based on Anthony Burgess's

1962 novel of the same name

and stars Malcolm McDowell,

Patrick Magee,

Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin,

Michael Tarn, James Marcus,

Warren Clarke and Anthony Sharp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)

standoff

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/21/
631196376/shooting-suspect-barricaded-at-los-angeles-trader-joes

standoff with the police

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/us/
aurora-colo-shooting-kills-four.html

be shot

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/
us/charlotte-police-shooting-north-carolina.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
654191128/1-law-enforcement-officer-dead-4-wounded-
in-south-carolina-shooting

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/08/
591802721/officers-shot-in-missouri-1-fatally-
were-sent-to-the-wrong-address

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/
591409178/3-police-officers-shot-1-fatally-in-missouri

be shot and killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/
us/westerville-ohio-officers-killed.html

be killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/
nyregion/wilbert-mora-dead-nypd-shooting.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/
1109554067/suspect-rifle-killed-3-police-officers-kentucky

jurisdictions

probe

profiling

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/nyregion/
long-island-serial-killer-gets-a-personality-profile.html

investigate

investigator

investigation

police

college police / armed police squads

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/us/
samuel-duboses-death-in-cincinnati-points-to-
off-campus-power-of-college-police.html

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/30/
427806790/many-colleges-have-armed-police-squads-but-are-they-worth-the-risk

according to police

law

law enforcement

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/
1139523832/san-francisco-considers-
allowing-law-enforcement-robots-to-use-lethal-force

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/us/
09sleeper.html

law enforcement officers / officers

https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/
100000005000271/in-one-crime-ridden-city-police-try-a-new-tactic-patience.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/
508986038/two-florida-law-enforcement-officers-killed-during-hunt-for-murder-suspect

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/
us/baton-rouge-attack-deepens-anguish-for-police-weve-seen-nothing-like-this.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/17/
486388231/our-enemies-are-watching-us-trump-clinton-respond-to-baton-rouge-shooting

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/17/
486396847/this-has-happened-far-too-often-obama-says-after-3-officers-killed

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/17/
486368681/sheriffs-office-multiple-officers-shot-in-baton-rogue-louisiana

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/
nyregion/at-vigil-for-two-slain-officers-prayers-for-the-police.html

law enforcement patrol officers

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/07/
522878573/we-re-more-than-stun-guns-says-taser-
as-it-changes-company-name 

law enforcement officials

law enforcement agencies

law enforcement robots

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/
1139523832/san-francisco-considers-
allowing-law-enforcement-robots-to-use-lethal-force

enforcer

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/23/
archives/crime-film-enforcer-lacking-ideas.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/26/
archives/the-screen-in-review-the-enforcer-with-hamphrey-bogart-as-a.html

law officer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09stlouis.html

deputy federal marshal / Deputy United States Marshal

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09stlouis.html

enforce

enforcement agencies

undercover police officer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/nyregion/
douglas-levien-new-york-detective-who-infiltrated-the-mafia-dies-at-68.html

go undercover

https://www.propublica.org/article/
who-is-this-monster - May 2021

officer / police officer

2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/23/
1214894247/disgusted-by-citys-top-prosecutor-a-police-officer-refuses-to-testify

https://www.propublica.org/article/
chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases - August 28, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/
1168833897/2-wisconsin-police-officers-killed-traffic-stop-shooting

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/
nyregion/wilbert-mora-dead-nypd-shooting.html

2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/
1109648170/akron-police-use-of-force

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/03/
1109651063/haltom-city-shooting-dallas-fort-worth-texas

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/
1109554067/suspect-rifle-killed-3-police-officers-kentucky

2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/
989342784/16-year-old-black-girl-who-called-for-help-
fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-sa

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/
986537157/anger-after-shooting-in-minneapolis-suburbs

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/23/
980299457/eric-talley-family-and-colleagues-remember-
police-officer-slain-at-boulder-groce

2017

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/31/
574862323/multiple-deputies-down-in-active-event-
south-of-denver-police-say

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/us/
police-shooting-florida-kissimmee.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/19/
544607803/2-police-officers-shot-and-killed-near-orlando

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/21/
529419512/three-generations-of-african-american-police-officers-
talk-about-policing-today

2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/09/
485388393/ambush-in-dallas-shakes-the-movement-for-police-reform

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/
magazine/a-black-police-officers-fight-against-the-nypd.html

2015

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/11/
413171180/experiencing-the-realities-of-being-a-police-officer

2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/us/arizona-
police-officer-and-suspect-die-in-shootout.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/
nyregion/at-vigil-for-two-slain-officers-prayers-for-the-police.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/nyregion/
after-killing-of-2-officers-a-reversal-in-attitudes-to-police-
of-some-demonstrators-and-officials.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1areXToyw

2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/
mourners-remember-a-fallen-officer.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/nyregion/
slain-officer-peter-figoski-was-a-devoted-father.html

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/
with-a-shield-a-readiness-to-mourn-a-comrade/

officer training

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/
1109648170/akron-police-use-of-force

face discipline

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/
986971743/rusten-sheskey-kenosha-
officer-who-shot-jacob-blake-will-not-face-discipline

no-knock warrant

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/
1081647935/amir-locke-funeral

no-knock police raid

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/
minneapolis-prosecutors-will-not-charge-officer-who-killed-amir-locke-washington-
2022-04-06/

black / African-American police officers

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/15/
997030877/after-chauvin-verdict-black-police-officers-consider-what-has-changed

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/
970934358/one-of-lapds-first-black-officers-reinstated-more-than-120-years-after-his-firin

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/21/
529419512/three-generations-of-african-american-police-officers-talk-about-policing-today

off-duty officer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/nyregion/
protesters-arrested-as-brooklyn-bridge-is-snarled.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/nyregion/
shot-after-interrupting-robbery-officer-kills-suspect-police-say.html

law enforcement officers

shot and killed in the line of duty

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/
1168833897/2-wisconsin-police-officers-killed-traffic-stop-shooting

https://www.gocomics.com/algoodwyn/2021/12/05

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/
982805712/boulder-colo-holds-memorial-for-police-officer-killed-
in-supermarket-shooting

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/
507536360/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-firearms-rose-in-2016-
study-finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/
us/baton-rouge-attack-deepens-anguish-for-police-weve-seen-nothing-like-this.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/
nyregion/at-vigil-for-two-slain-officers-prayers-for-the-police.html

slain officers

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/
nyregion/at-vigil-for-two-slain-officers-prayers-for-the-police.html

sting

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/nyregion/
douglas-levien-new-york-detective-who-infiltrated-the-mafia-dies-at-68.html

plainclothes police officer

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/
1074425809/new-york-return-plain-clothes-police-unit

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/nyregion/
two-nypd-officers-are-shot-in-brooklyn.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/nyregion/
two-new-york-police-officers-shot-in-the-leg-an-hour-apart.html

plainclothes detective

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/
police-unit-that-spied-on-muslims-is-disbanded.html

auxiliary police officer

police starshooter

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/us/
outrage-in-texas-after-airborne-police-sharpshooter-kills-2-immigrants.html

detective

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/david-toschi-86-detective-who-pursued-the-zodiac-killer-dies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/nyregion/
joseph-coffey-detective-who-took-son-of-sams-confession-dies-at-77.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/nyregion/
timothy-dowd-detective-who-led-son-of-sam-manhunt-dies-at-99.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/us/
ken-landwehr-who-played-key-role-in-capture-of-serial-killer-dies-at-59.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/nyregion/
police-identity-one-suspect-in-midtown-killing.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/nyregion/
05unsolved.html

rookie

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/us/
police-officer-james-bradley-miller-christian-taylor-texas-killing.html

superintendent

private investigator

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/
opinion/the-boring-life-of-a-private-investigator.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/24/
archives/the-screen-
the-big-sleep-warner-film-in-which-bogart-and-bacall-are.html

sleuth

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=15150889 - October 10, 2007

sleuthing

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/24/
archives/the-screen-the-big-sleep-
warner-film-in-which-bogart-and-bacall-are.html

cop

https://www.propublica.org/article/
chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases - August 28, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/
675359781/americas-growing-cop-shortage

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/
nyregion/albert-seedman-
former-chief-of-detectives-in-new-york-dies-at-94.html

cyborg law enforcer > RoboCop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
RoboCop - 1987

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/17/
movies/film-robocop-police-drama-with-peter-weller.html

rogue cop

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/
nyregion/
robert-leuci-75-who-exposed-graft-among-fellow-detectives-in-70s-
dies.html

lie

https://www.propublica.org/article/
chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases - August 28, 2023

resign from the department

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/01/
992698477/3-colorado-officers-
involved-in-forceful-arrest-of-woman-with-dementia-
resign

Australia, USA > cops in movies        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/20/
movies/review-film-jaded-cop-raped-nun-bad-indeed.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/17/
movies/film-robocop-police-drama-with-peter-weller.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/06/14/
arts/mad-max-in-australia.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/26/
archives/screen-magnum-forcepolice-story-is-sequel-to-dirty-harry-the-cast.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/23/
archives/screen-dirty-harry-and-his-devotion-to-duty.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/
movies/bestpictures/french-re.html - October 8, 1971

cops in series > 1970s-1980s > Columbo

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/
137446127/just-one-more-thing-about-falk-tvs-columbo

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/06/
arts/review-television-columbo-returns-on-abc.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/01/
archives/columbo-knows-the-butler-didn-t-do-it.html

corruption / graft

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/
nyregion/robert-leuci-75-who-exposed-graft-among-fellow-detectives-in-70s-dies.html

police unions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/us/
police-unions-facing-public-anger-rethink-how-to-address-shootings.html

USA > sheriff        UK / USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/
us/mississippi-sheriff-sexual-abuse.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/
gadsden-florida-sheriff-prison-re-entry-program-morris-young

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/
michelle-oconnell-jeremy-banks.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/
arpaio-tent-city-maricopa-sheriff-penzone.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/
522576226/when-sheriffs-refuse-an-ice-detainment-request-they-get-called-out

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/
446866939/gun-debate-divides-nations-police-officers-too

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/us/
federal-judge-finds-violations-of-rights-by-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html

Arizona > Maricopa County > Sheriff > Joe Arpaio

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
joe-arpaio

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/
534381348/americas-sheriff-or-community-destroyer-joe-arpaio-goes-on-trial

Sheriff's Office / Police station

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department

https://lasd.org/

county sheriffs

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/
us/politics/election-sheriffs-voting-trump.html

Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas

Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger

sheriff's deputy

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/29/
435760346/texas-sheriffs-deputy-gunned-down-at-gas-station

police chief

deputies

ticket

N.Y. trooper

Sgt. Chris Douglass

rap sheet

use deadly force

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/09/
are-police-too-quick-to-use-force

lethal force

die in the line of duty

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/nyregion/
11cop.html

patrol car

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/
two-police-officers-shot-in-their-patrol-car-in-brooklyn.html

stop and frisk

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/
516738306/lawsuit-accuses-milwaukee-police-of-abusive-stop-and-frisk-practices

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/nyregion/
friskings-ebb-but-still-hang-over-brooklyn-lives.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/
stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/
opinion/losing-faith-in-stop-and-frisk.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/
opinion/the-truth-behind-stop-and-frisk.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/
opinion/l03crime.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/
opinion/26macdonald.html

stop and search

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/
this-fugitive-life/

track down suspects

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/27/
418032150/after-escaped-convict-shot-in-new-york-police-hunt-for-accomplice

comb

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/nyregion/
police-search-harriman-state-park-in-hunt-for-eugene-palmer.html

comb through N

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/
police-combing-through-shooting-suspects-arrest-history-and-violent-day.html

reward

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/us/
officials-hope-reward-offer-brings-help-in-killings.html

manhunt

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/
1208650192/lewiston-maine-active-shooter-police

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/
1136423019/uva-student-shooting-charlottesville-virginia

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/
1097744901/alabama-escaped-inmate-casey-vicky-white-caught

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/
obituaries/John-L-Keenan-Dies.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/27/
418032150/after-escaped-convict-shot-in-new-york-police-hunt-for-accomplice

https://www.npr.org/2015/06/11/
413635657/breaking-down-the-anatomy-of-a-national-manhunt

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/us/ferguson-
police.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/nyregion/
timothy-dowd-detective-who-led-son-of-sam-manhunt-dies-at-99.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/
in-tense-woods-police-shift-from-prey-to-hunters.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/
manhunts-turning-point-came-in-images-release.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/
bullet-that-struck-the-white-house-is-found.html

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1595375 - January 13, 2004

hunt

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/
magazine/gilgo-beach-killer-suffolk-police.html

dragnet

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/
us/texas-shooting-manhunt-victims.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/
manhunt-creates-surreal-scene-in-boston-region.html

ensnare

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/
nyregion/timothy-dowd-detective-who-led-son-of-sam-manhunt-dies-at-99.html

search

convict search

scour

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/27/
418032150/after-escaped-convict-shot-in-new-york-police-hunt-for-accomplice

pursue

seek

close in on N

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/
in-tense-woods-police-shift-from-prey-to-hunters.html

capture

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/27/
418032150/after-escaped-convict-shot-in-new-york-police-hunt-for-accomplice

catch

take a man into custody / get an individual into custody

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004062876/
colorado-suspect-in-custody.html - Nov. 28, 2015

question

interrogation

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/
in-interrogations-teenagers-are-too-young-to-know-better/

https://www.npr.org/2013/12/05/
248968150/beyond-good-cop-bad-cop-a-look-at-real-life-interrogations

police interrogator

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/
in-interrogations-teenagers-are-too-young-to-know-better/

interrogation > good cop/bad cop

https://www.npr.org/2013/12/05/
248968150/beyond-good-cop-bad-cop-a-look-at-real-life-interrogations

SWAT team

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/
forced-entry-warrant-drug-raid.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/texas-
no-knock-warrant-drugs.html

SWAT team officer

Pennsylvania State Police

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/
in-tense-woods-police-shift-from-prey-to-hunters.html

 State Police commissioner

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/
state-police-officer-dies-in-pennsylvania-ambush.html

state trooper / state police officer

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003815285/
what-was-legal-in-sandra-blands-arrest.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/
in-tense-woods-police-shift-from-prey-to-hunters.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/
state-police-officer-dies-in-pennsylvania-ambush.html

Arkansas state troopers

State Constable    S.C.

rogue detective

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/
nyregion/man-framed-by-new-york-detective-to-get-6-4-million-without-filing-suit.html

U.S. Capitol Police officer

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/
983861176/2-u-s-capitol-police-injured-at-capitol-checkpoint-complex-in-lockdown

National Guard

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/02/15/
968077746/national-guard-troops-might-not-leave-d-c-
until-the-fall

U.S. Marshals Service

https://www.usmarshals.gov/ 

Federal Air Marshals

U.S. Marshals

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/13/
523772336/u-s-marshals-say-theyve-rounded-up-the-last-of-the-cocaine-cowboys

Federal Bureau of Investigation    FBI

https://www.fbi.gov/

Feds

F.B.I. agent / FBI agent

FBI Special Agent-In-Charge Matthew Pellegrino

an FBI affidavit

filed in U.S. District Court

FBI's Most Wanted List

violence, abuse, prostitution,

sexual violence, rape, harassment,

kidnapping, crime, police,

arrest, investigation, custody,

police misconduct / brutality / violence >

USA

gun violence > USA

drugs, opioids > Mexico, UK, USA

good, evil

www >

cyberbullying, online abuse / violence

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Racism, Slavery,

Abolition, Civil war,

Abraham Lincoln,

Reconstruction

17th, 18th, 19th century

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