ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- In "Dragnet" days, police profiles were built by knocking on doors - gumshoe cops requesting "just the facts ma'am." The New Dragnet has Chicago-area police harnessing social ...

Marcy Wheeler, a Michigan-based blogger known as emptywheel, says she should have seen it coming. Four years ago, she had figured out that the government was collecting information on Americans, in ...

If any television series past or present could be called a tribute to the Los Angeles Police Department, it would be Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Dragnet ran on television in the 1950s and then several years ...

This summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested George Retes, a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran, during an immigration sweep as he was driving to work. Although Retes ...

Jack Webb spent years working in radio and television. In fact, he worked up until the moment he died in December 1982 and left a project unfinished. Even with a variety of works under his belt, Webb ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

The Hollywood, Health, & Society report looks at firearm trends in film and TV over the last 20 years, offering resources and approaches for how entertainment and news media can provide ...