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Dr. Cherylynn Lee, psychologist for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, has been named a recipient of the prestigious '40 Under Forty' award by the International Association of Chiefs of
The death of a Philadelphia area school teacher is being reinvestigated after an exhaustive push from her parents after being ruled a suicide.
Retired Marine Trey Gonzales, who experiences a hyper-focused tunnel vision whenever he hears the sound of helicopters is taking part in a new equine therapy program that specializes in caring for veterans and first responders suffering from mental and physical wounds.
“When I felt the horse’s breath on the back of my neck, I lost it — I broke down into tears, because I knew what I had been lacking in my life,” one veteran said.
Like that, they often turn to the behavioral scientists, the folks at what we call bau, the behavioral sciences unit, to try to assist in guiding them toward if not specific people, populations of people that they should consider as possibly being individuals or groups of people that are -- that would be -- could be involved in that sort of activity. it is truly a dark science, not something that i ever did when i was in the bureau. but i have great respect for the men and women who do that every day. i would expect that the same sort of assets are being utilized to try to figure out who was b...