National Investigations

To offset the increased exposure caused by social media and technology, experts are placing more and more emphasis on parents to sit down and have conversations with their children to make them aware of the dangers that lurk online.

There are more apps out there than we can keep track of, and not all of them are fun and games. Here are a few the San Diego County Human Trafficking Task Force says parents should be aware of

The novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted nearly every aspect of society. In particular, it has aided in the rise of sex trafficking on national and global levels.

From NBC 7 comes STOLEN; an expansive documentary series about sex trafficking and the exploitation of children in San Diego County and beyond.

In January, the Philadelphia police department’s most recent training academy class included no Black cadets. Potential recruits of color told NBC10 of the many obstacles they face despite eagerness to serve their city.

Numerous struggling businesses, including small restaurants, are getting socked with penalties from the city of Los Angeles for posting banners telling customers they’re open for takeout during the pandemic, the NBC4 I-Team has learned. Above the entrance of the Crave Cafe in Studio City–where business is down 70% during the pandemic&#8...

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

A woman from Lancaster says Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies violated her Constitutional rights when they burst through her door, handcuffed and moved her outside naked, and terrified her younger sister and son, while allegedly searching for the woman’s brother — who she later learned was being arrested at a differ...

Workers for the nation’s largest hospice care provider say the company has put their health and safety, and the lives of thousands of nursing home residents and employees at risk of catching COVID-19, all to make an extra buck.

Rape, murder, armed robbery. Miami Police say they’ve made arrests in those violent crimes and in property crimes using a controversial facial recognition program, Clearview AI. The department says the technology has helped them to identify 28 people linked to crimes. “It’s really being a game changer for us,” said Miami Police Assistant Chief...

Amid a rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak that’s infected about a third of all people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, dozens of COVID-19 positive prisoners declared a hunger strike this week in protest of what they call “dismal” living conditions during their quarantine, according to sources inside the prison.

Attorneys for the city of San Diego hope to keep police body-cam footage confidential that was recorded during a mental-health call at which officers declined to detain an 18-year-old YouTube star who went on to kill a mother and her 12-year-old daughter in a fiery wrong-way crash on Interstate 805.

A man reportedly shot during a gunfight with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives in the high desert town of Rosamond Wednesday is the half brother of Robert Fuller, the man found hanged near Palmdale City Hall whose death is now the focus of local, state, and federal investigations, law enforcement and other sources told NBCLA. The m...