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• More protests expected after funeral of Brooklyn man shot by police - Reuters

  06-12-2014 23:39 via reuters.com
  
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  More protests expected after funeral of Brooklyn man shot by police
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  The shooting of Akai Gurley, 28, by a New York city police officer at a city housing project last month is the latest in a series of incidents fueling public outrage over what many see as a pattern of callous misuse of lethal force against minority ...
  The Police in America Are Becoming IllegitimateRollingStone.com
  In Unpredictable New York Protests, Organized Criticism of PoliceNew York Times
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• Police stop man on 'stabbing rampage' aboard Amtrak train - New York Post

  06-12-2014 23:13 via nypost.com
  
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  Police stop man on 'stabbing rampage' aboard Amtrak train
  New York Post
  NILES, Mich. — Police officers churning their way through a chaotic scene aboard an Amtrak train in Michigan are being credited with preventing even more bloodshed after a man stabbed a conductor and three fellow passengers. “It was pretty incredible ...
  Police credited with saving lives in Mich. Amtrak stabbingFox News
  
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• Mesa police: Girl, 15, assaulted officer - azcentral.com

  06-12-2014 23:08 via azcentral.com
  
  Mesa police: Girl, 15, assaulted officer
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  A 15-year-old girl punched and kicked a Mesa police officer Friday after the female officer tried to get her attention, police said. Mesa officers responded to a call Friday afternoon near 86th Street and Broadway, where a mother said her daughter had ...
  
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• Officers Kill Man in Bustle of Hollywood - New York Times

  06-12-2014 22:00 via nytimes.com
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  Officers Kill Man in Bustle of Hollywood
  New York Times
  LOS ANGELES — A man holding a pocketknife was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers in a chaotic confrontation Friday night in the crowded heart of Hollywood's tourist district, the authorities said. Officers fired on the man in the middle of ...
  Hundreds march against police brutality in 'Blackout Hollywood' protestLos Angeles Times
  Probe Underway After Deadly Police Shooting In HollywoodCBS Local
  
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• Protesters stage 'die-in' outside Orlando police station - Orlando Sentinel

  06-12-2014 21:22 via orlandosentinel.com
  
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  Protesters stage 'die-in' outside Orlando police station
  Orlando Sentinel
  More than 100 people lay on the ground outside of the Orlando police headquarters Saturday afternoon, joining protesters nationwide upset over two recent grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men.
  Dozens protest police brutality at Orlando Police HeadquartersWESH Orlando
  Dozens protest police brutality in front of Orlando police headquartersWFTV Orlando
  
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• In Brooklyn, Mourning a Man Who the Police Say Was Killed in an Accident - New York Times

  06-12-2014 18:46 via nytimes.com
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  In Brooklyn, Mourning a Man Who the Police Say Was Killed in an Accident
  New York Times
  On a quiet block in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, far from the crowds in Manhattan protesting killings by police officers, mourners came on Friday evening to the wake of young man killed by a police bullet in the darkened stairway of a housing project.
  Officials, Kin Mourn Man Shot by Police in NYCABC News
  Brooklyn DA: Grand jury to investigate police shooting of unarmed man Police ...CNN
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• Police Killings Reveal Chasms Between Races - New York Times

  06-12-2014 18:04 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Police Killings Reveal Chasms Between Races
  New York Times
  But the recent high-profile deaths of black people at the hands of police officers in Ferguson, New York, Cleveland and elsewhere — and the nationwide protests those deaths spurred — have exposed sharp differences about race relations among friends, ...
  
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• Rand Paul is right about police brutality: our laws are a huge part of the problem - The Verge

  06-12-2014 18:00 via theverge.com
  
  Rand Paul is right about police brutality: our laws are a huge part of the problem
  The Verge
  Protests for police reform are sweeping the United States following the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and an untold number of other unarmed or innocent people of color. Amid the anger and sadness one thing is clear: policing in ...
  
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• Indicting a Police Officer Is Uncommon Occurrence - ABC News

  06-12-2014 17:41 via abcnews.go.com
  
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  Indicting a Police Officer Is Uncommon Occurrence
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  At least 400 people are killed by police officers in the United States every year, and while the circumstances of each case are different, one thing remains constant: In only a handful of instances do grand juries issue an indictment, concluding that ...
  Indictments rare, but police do get charged over use of deadly forceFox News
  
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• Obama signals he'll put muscle behind response to police killings - The Hill

  06-12-2014 17:01 via thehill.com
  
  Obama signals he'll put muscle behind response to police killings
  The Hill
  President Obama is pledging a robust effort to ensure the criminal justice system treats all people equally regardless of color following a New York City grand jury's decision to not indict a police officer in the killing of Eric Garner. Obama has ...
  
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• Italian Gun Grease's True Grease Designed to Extend Life of Weapons

  06-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Italian Gun Grease (IGG), manufacturer of firearms lubricants and cleaners, offers shooting enthusiasts its foundation product, True Grease, as a means of extending the life of a weapon and reducing malfunctions with regular use.
  
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• Police: Chokehold victim complicit in own death - AOL.com - AOL News

  06-12-2014 14:23 via aol.com
  
  Police: Chokehold victim complicit in own death - AOL.com
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  NEW YORK (AP) -- Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, "I can't ...
  
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• PublicEngines Announces Free Agency Predictive Crime Assessment

  06-12-2014 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  PublicEngines, a provider of cloud-based solutions that facilitate crime analysis, supply actionable intelligence and increase community engagement for law enforcement, and governments, announced a new free service to help law enforcement agencies better understand the benefit of predictive analytics in their jurisdiction.
  
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• Eric Garner and the Legal Rules That Enable Police Violence - New York Times

  06-12-2014 05:14 via nytimes.com
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  Eric Garner and the Legal Rules That Enable Police Violence
  New York Times
  ERIC GARNER was not the first American to be choked by the police, and he will not be the last, thanks to legal rules that prevent victims of police violence from asking federal courts to help stop deadly practices. The 1983 case City of Los Angeles v.
  Thurgood Marshall Blasted Police for Killing Black Men With ChokeholdsMother Jones
  How The Supreme Court Helped Make It Possible For Police To Kill By Choke
  
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• Cleveland police tactics violated rights of citizens, Justice Department probe ... - Washington Post

  06-12-2014 03:43 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Cleveland police tactics violated rights of citizens, Justice Department probe ...
  Washington Post
  The Obama administration on Thursday issued a report accusing the Cleveland police department of using excessive and deadly force against citizens in violation of their constitutional rights, the latest development in a growing national debate over the ...
  Just How Bad Were Cleveland's Police Abuses?The Atlantic
  Justice Dept.: Cleveland police has pattern of excessive forceCN
  
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• 2 San Francisco police officers convicted of corruption - San Francisco Chronicle

  06-12-2014 02:50 via sfchronicle.com
  
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  2 San Francisco police officers convicted of corruption
  San Francisco Chronicle
  A San Francisco police corruption scandal, triggered by surveillance videos that appeared to show officers as thieves, registered its first verdicts Friday when a federal court jury found two veteran officers guilty of stealing property and thousands ...
  Two San Francisco police officers convicted of theft and conspiracyLos Angeles Times
  
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• Officials, Kin Mourn Man Shot by Police in NYC - ABC News

  06-12-2014 02:37 via abcnews.go.com
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  Officials, Kin Mourn Man Shot by Police in NYC
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  Elected officials told mourners the world was watching Friday as they remembered an unarmed man shot dead by a rookie police officer in a darkened public housing stairwell. At a wake that came hours after the Brooklyn district attorney announced plans ...
  NY grand jury to weigh police shooting of unarmed black man in stairwellReuters
  Grand Jury Hearing Planned in Police Killing of Man on Project StairsNew York Times
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• OC bank robber chased by police crashes stolen taxi - KABC-TV

  06-12-2014 02:03 via abc7.com
  
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  OC bank robber chased by police crashes stolen taxi
  KABC-TV
  Westminster Police said a bank robbery suspect took a taxi-van to a U.S. Bank branch located at 15550 Brookhurst Street in Westminster Friday afternoon. The suspect went inside, handed a demand note to a teller, then exited the bank and got back in the ...
  
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• Five myths about America's police - Washington Post

  06-12-2014 01:39 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Five myths about America's police
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  According to FBI statistics, 27 police officers were feloniously killed in 2013, the lowest raw number in more than 50 years. (The previous low was 41 in 2008.) If we go by officer homicides as a percentage of active-duty police, it was probably the ...
  
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• Steelers Quarterback Announces Two K-9 Grants for Ohio Agencies

  06-12-2014 01:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steelers Super Bowl Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be distributing grants to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office and the Miami University Police Department outside of Cincinnati where the Steelers will play the Bengals on Sunday, December 7.
  
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• Santa Ana man molested 'extraordinary' number of boys, police say - Los Angeles Times

  06-12-2014 01:05 via latimes.com
  
  Daily Mail
  Santa Ana man molested 'extraordinary' number of boys, police say
  Los Angeles Times
  Echeverria befriended the boys, who range in age from 10 to 14, by selling them soda and chips from his apartment in the 700 block of South Lyon Street, Santa Ana police said. He established a “rapport and trust” with the boys and persuaded them to ...
  Police Arrest Santa Ana Man For Allegedly Molesting At Least 8 BoysFOX 11 Los Angeles
  
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• Denver Police Union Says Students Cheered After Local Officers Were Hit By Car - Huffington Post

  06-12-2014 00:32 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Denver Police Union Says Students Cheered After Local Officers Were Hit By Car
  Huffington Post
  On Wednesday, hundreds of students from East High School in Denver walked out of class, protesting a St. Louis County grand jury's decision not to indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown ...
  Police union: Protesters cheered when officers hit by car9NEWS.com
  Denver Police ID driver who hit officers, say no charges filedFOX31 Denver
  
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• Video: Officer's Home Burns Down, Neighbor Charged with Arson

  06-12-2014 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The neighbor of a Montgomery County, Pa., police officer is under arrest, charged with setting the officer's home on fire while he and his family were away on vacation.
  
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• Florida Sheriff's Office Empowers Law Enforcement with New World Systems' Technology

  06-12-2014 00:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Walton County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office selected New World's Aegis Public Safety Software Suite, providing new software solutions for the agency's Computer Aided Dispatch, Law Enforcement Records Management, Corrections Management, Decision Support, Mobile Messaging and Field Reporting abilities.
  
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• Trellchem Act CBRN Suit

  06-12-2014 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ansell recently introduced Trellchem Act, a new protective solution for law enforcement responders dealing with consequences of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) terrorism incidents.
  
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• California Officer Run Over by Stolen Vehicle, Seriously Injured

  06-12-2014 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A San Leandro, Calif., police officer was run over by a car and sustained serious injuries to his legs Thursday morning. The 16-year-old girl suspected of driving the car was in custody by the end of the day
  
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