“Big cases, big problems. Little cases, little problems. No cases, no problems. If you are a federal law enforcement official, you have heard this anecdotal expression often enough to know that it contains more than a kernel of truth.

Whistleblowers and Inspectors General are a popular lot on Capitol Hill, since they identify issues large and small at agencies. As like any human being, sometimes the two make mistakes – and those mistakes can have huge implications for employees, agencies, and government policy.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has selected Police Officer Michael Keane, of the Lyndhurst (NJ) Police Department, as the recipient of its Officer of the Month Award for January 2016.

Ten weeks of continuous, warrantless surveillance from a public utility pole did not violate a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights, the Sixth Circuit held.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) announced today that it has successfully secured tax-exempt bond financing to build the first national museum to tell the story of American law enforcement.

The Federal Managers Association (FMA) will host its 78th annual National Convention & Management Training Seminar from March 13 – 16 of this year.

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that the procedural violations of FBI agents in failing to provide sufficient notice of a warrant did not violate a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights.

Thanks to a team effort from FBI and local law enforcement, 129 adults in all were picked up or cited for prostitution and 85 clients were arrested in the weeks leading up to, and during, the Super Bowl week.

A former federal nuclear scientist pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of attempted unauthorized access and intentional damage to a protected computer when he attempted to infect the computers of almost a hundred federal employees who had access to nuclear materials and weapons.

The standoff between anti-government activists calling themselves “Citizens for Constitutional Freedom” who took over an unoccupied federal building in rural Oregon nearly a month ago has taken a new turn.

Law enforcement fatalities nationwide rose slightly during 2015, with 124 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers killed in the line of duty, according to preliminary data compiled and released today by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) in their 2015 Law Enforcement Fatalities Report.

The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court decision granting officers qualified immunity after Tasering Ronald H. Armstrong five times. Mr. Armstrong died of suffocation.

Two Virginia men were arrested and charged for criminal activity related to joining ISIS, the FBI announced Saturday.

It was the largest US military invasion since the Vietnam War, and some have called it the most costly drug arrest in history. On December 20, 1989, more than 27,000 US troops invaded Panama.

A decision in late November by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding qualified immunity for police officers has implications for those in federal law enforcement.

What’s in store for federal employees in the second year of the 114th Congress and the last year of President Obama’s term in office?

In April 2009, Deputy U.S. Marshals Sean Franklin and Christopher Wallace tasered, arrested, and interrogated Mr. Stuart Wright, who was wrongfully identified as a suspected armed and dangerous felon.

The Justice Department announced that contract therapy providers RehabCare Group Inc., RehabCare Group East Inc. and their parent, Kindred Healthcare Inc., will pay $125 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging False Claims Act violations.

Declaring that “we must enforce the law” while acknowledging “there are many who loudly condemn our enforcement efforts as far too harsh, while there will be others who say these actions don’t go far enough” earlier this week Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson announced enforcement actions being taken against persons who entered the country illegally.

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who became a public sensation earlier this year for significantly raising drug prices, has been arrested by the FBI on charges of securities and wire fraud based on prior work at a hedge fund.