*Journal-World reporters Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings have attended the Lawrence Police Department's 2013 Citizens' Academy twice per week for the past month. On Wednesdays and Fridays, they highlight a few things they learned from the night before. This week's post recounts the eighth and ...

I was dead before I even reached for my gun. And so was my partner. It was a sobering moment Tuesday night at Day 7 of the Citizen's Police Academy as I stepped up as the first volunteer in a simulated shooting exercise. After just having watched several episodes of the TV show ...

*Journal-World reporters Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings are attending the Lawrence Police Department's 2013 Citizens' Academy twice per week for the next month. On Wednesdays and Fridays, they'll highlight a few things they learned from the night before.* Crime scene investigation is not as ...

If they'd kept their mouths shut, Damon McCray would've gotten away with murder. But as we learned in Day 5 of the Citizen's Police Academy, people, even when it means selling out their lovers and friends, talk. Lawrence Police Sgt. Mike Pattrick walked us [through the investigation of ...

*Journal-World reporters Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings are attending the Lawrence Police Department's 2013 Citizens' Academy twice per week for the next month. On Wednesdays and Fridays, they'll highlight a few things they learned from the night before.* We ate meat lasagna while examining a ...

Last night, my fellow Citizen's Academy attendees were able to visit a place very few people ever step foot in: the Lawrence Police Department's evidence room, tucked away above the county's courtrooms. It wasn't what we saw that initially caught our attention. The second you enter, the ...