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• Normalcy Bias

  20-08-2015 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The other day the Sarge and I were driving to a conference in the Midwest while doing one of our favorite activities, listening to a techno-thriller. Our favorite author in this genre, Brad Thor, not only writes exciting novels, but very realistic ones as well. I've heard it called "fraction," half fiction, half fact. In this audio book, just before the protagonist proceeds to take out a group of Somali pirates, he remarks that even pirates sometimes suffer something he calls "normalcy bias." I'
  
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• Video: Man Throws Bricks at Kansas Police Station

  20-08-2015 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Man Throws Bricks at Kansas Police StationAfter bricks were thrown at the Newton, Kan., Law Enforcement Center on Tuesday, Brent Allen Smith, 26, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer, battery of a law enforcement officer, four counts of attempted criminal damage to property, one count of criminal damage to property, and one count of disorderly conduct, reports the Wichita Eagle.The man is in the Harvey County Detention Center awaiting a hearing. Bec
  
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• Video: Regal Cinemas Begins Checking Theatergoers' Bags

  20-08-2015 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Regal Cinemas Begins Checking Theatergoers' BagsRegal Entertainment Group has become the first national cinema chain to announce random inspections of bags and backpacks. The new policy, posted on its website, says "backpacks and bags of any kind are subject to inspection prior to admission," reports KTRK in Houston.An employee for ABC-13 noticed the change this past Saturday when she went to see a movie at the Regal Entertainment Group-owned Edwards Greenway Grand Palace off Weslayan. Sh
  
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• California City Looks at Using Garbage Haulers to Catch Car Thieves

  20-08-2015 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The noisy garbage trucks that lumber down San Jose, Calif., streets every week could soon pick up more than just trash -- they might also scan license plates, too, in a proposed city-wide sweep for stolen vehicles that has civil libertarians crying foul, reports the San Jose Mercury News.Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilmen Johnny Khamis and Raul Peralez proposed that the Bay Area city consider strapping license plate readers to the front of garbage trucks, allowing them to record the plates of eve
  
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• Releasing the Lions

  20-08-2015 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How does President Obama show his respect for the risks you face while investigating and apprehending drug traffickers? He commutes the sentences of 46 drug traffickers.The president says these poor misguided souls received unfair sentences, are nonviolent, and cost the government too much to incarcerate in overcrowded prisons. So onJuly 13, he used his presidential powers to free 46 of them.The answer to prison overcrowding is not to let these peddlers of death roam free. As Steve Cook, preside
  
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• Video: NYPD Officer Wins Impromptu Pull-up Contest Against Neighborhood Teen

  20-08-2015 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: NYPD Officer Wins Impromptu Pull-up Contest Against Neighborhood Teen Police Officer Stroman is a seven-year veteran with the NYPD and a familiar face along Sutter Avenue in Brownsville's 73rd Precinct. His assignment there is part of the NYPD's "Summer All Out" Initiative. This native Brooklynite knows the area well, having grown up there. And now today's neighborhood kids know him. "It wasn't always like this," begins Officer Stroman. "Some of these kids were confrontational at first, b
  
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• Dealing With A Bad Attitude

  20-08-2015 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We all have different ideas about what constitutes having a bad attitude. Where we can agree is that bad attitudes can be very disruptive. Having a bad day that sours your attitude happens to everyone. Someone having a bad day every day is unacceptable. Sooner or later you will have to deal with this type of disruptive subordinate. If you don't deal with it, his or her unchecked attitude will spread like a contagious disease. Your only play is to define the problem in terms of behavior and the n
  
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• Baltimore Officer Charged With Attempted Murder, Bail Set At $1M

  20-08-2015 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Baltimore police officer has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an unarmed burglary suspect last December, State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby and interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis announced Wednesday, reports the Baltimore Sun.The officer, 13-year veteran Wesley Cagle, is accused of shooting Michael Johansen, 46, in the 3000 block of E. Monument St. after he had been shot by two other officers. Cagle was charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degre
  
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• Video: At Least Nine Protesters Arrested After St. Louis Police Shooting

  20-08-2015 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: At Least Nine Protesters Arrested After St. Louis Police ShootingAt least nine people were arrested Wednesday and St. Louis police used tear gas to clear a street of protesters after an armed man fleeing from officers was shot and killed when he pointed a gun at them, reports Fox News.St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said at a press conference late Wednesday night that a group of protesters who had blocked an intersection threw glass bottles and bricks at officers and refused orders to c
  
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• Pelican 3310ELS Emergency Lighting Station Provides Illumination in Blackouts

  20-08-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Pelican 3310ELS is a wall-mountable emergency lighting station that includes a clear polymer protective enclosure (mounting hardware included) that houses a Pelican 3310PL Photoluminescent LED flashlight. The light acts as a glowing safety beacon in darkness to ensure that dependable light will always be within reach.The Pelican 3310PL Photoluminescent LED flashlight is made of virtually indestructible polymer material that gathers ambient light to glow in the dark when the lights are off, m
  
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• Performance Custom Cabinets' Thorguarde Weapons Vault Now NTOA Member Tested and Recommended

  20-08-2015 01:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Performance Custom Cabinets LLC, designers and custom builders of security cabinets, gun vaults and mobile command modules for law enforcement, fire/EMS, recreation and professional purposes, announced that the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) has awarded the Thorguarde Weapons Vault a 4.32 from their Member Tested and Recommended Program.The Thorguarde Weapons Vault is a high-security, all-aluminum custom security cabinet for firearms, ammunition, tactical gear and other equipment.
  
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• New DMT Sharpening Stone Base Answers Demand for Easy Grit Changes

  20-08-2015 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DMT's new DuoBase with MagnaBase Adapter expands the manufacturer's bench stone accessory line to offer greater flexibility and convenience when sharpening knives and tools. Following the popularity of the company's MagnaBase concept—introduced last year—consumer demand arose for a model that can be used with all DMT bench stones, especially Dia-Sharp products. And DMT has answered that call."DMT's great new MagnaBase Adapter showcases their practical and highly functional products a
  
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• Miami Police Do The Right Thing Program Turns 25 Years Old

  20-08-2015 00:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At a time when relations between police officers and the communities they serve are strained, a community policing program, which started in Miami in 1990, is helping to bridge the gap as it celebrates its 25th year in operation.Do The Right Thing, Inc. (DTRT) is a national, not-for-profit organization operating in cooperation with local law enforcement to recognize and reward young people for their positive behavior, accomplishments, and good deeds. The program can be implemented in any communi
  
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• Atlanta Area SWAT Unit Receives Bergara Rifles

  20-08-2015 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bergara USA, a division of BPI Outdoors, has delivered on its third Bergara rifle contract received from a Georgia police department. The sale was arranged through Gables Sporting Goods, located in Douglasville, Ga. The Douglasville Police Department SWAT team selected the Bergara Premier Tactical chambered in .308. The rifles are equipped with the Dead Air Armament Keymount combination muzzle brake and suppressor mount, specially designed for the attachment of the Dead Air Armament Sandman supp
  
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