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• Mistrial Declared In North Carolina Officer's Manslaughter Trial

  21-08-2015 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the voluntary manslaughter case of Charlotte, N.C., police officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick, reports WXII.Judge Robert C. Ervin declared the mistrial after the jurors raised their hands to indicate they likely couldn't reach a unanimous decision.The jury first said it was deadlocked around noon Friday after votes of 7-5 and 8-4 twice. After Ervin ordered them to deliberate some more, the jury foreman said around 3 p.m. that discussions had been "productive."How
  
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• Black Lives Matter Releases List of Demands for Police Reform

  21-08-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Black Lives Matter movement has released a detailed list of specific proposals for changing the operations of American law enforcement.The comprehensive set of policy demands on the federal and state level introduced by Black Lives Matter activists on Friday, named Campaign Zero, comes after months of discussions with protesters from across the country and was informed by the recommendations of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. One of the members of Campaign
  
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• Autopsy Report: Armed Suspect Killed by Officers in St. Louis This Week Died of Single Gunshot in the Back

  21-08-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire in St. Louis this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said.Chief Sam Dotson said the wound's location neither proves nor disproves the contention of officers at the scene that Ball-Bey refused to drop a gun and pointed it at them before being shot Wednesday.An investigation of the particulars continues, Dotson said."Just because he was shot in the back doesn't mean he was runni
  
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• Streamlight 5K Raises Funds for Fallen Police Survivors

  21-08-2015 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Streamlight Inc., provider of high-performance lighting and weapon light/laser sighting devices for law enforcement, announced today it raised nearly $3,200 in proceeds from the first annual Streamlight 5K for Concerns for Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) July 8 in Upper Providence, Pa.More than 120 runners and walkers, including many Streamlight employees, took part in the event to benefit C.O.P.S., which supports families and colleagues of fallen police officers. The run was organized by several St
  
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• Stressful Situations Make Officers More Likely to Die of Heart Attack

  21-08-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police officers in the United States face a 30 to 70 times higher risk of sudden cardiac death when they’re involved in stressful situations, according to a recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Cambridge Health Alliance.“Because of their job, police officers are under a more significant amount of stress compared to the general public. They take that stress home with them at the end of their shift, too,” said Stefanos Kales, associate professor in the De
  
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• Pennsylvania Officer and Son Killed in Off-Duty Wreck

  21-08-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Mercer County, Pa., police officer and his son died in a two-vehicle crash on Thursday.State Police say 41-year-old Jeremiah Christner Sr., of Greenville, and 17-year-old Jeremiah Christner Jr. were in an SUV that went out of control on Greenville Sheakleyville Road and ran into an oncoming truck in the opposite lane, WFMJ TV reports.Christner Sr., a member of the Greenville-West Salem Police department, was driving the SUV.According to the police report, Christner's v
  
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• LAPD Officers Told to Be Guardians of Community, Not Crimefighting Warriors

  21-08-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  The LAPD of the 1970s and '80s acted as a hard-charging force. Officers of that era were trained to think of themselves as soldiers in a never-ending war on crime.But now the department is using that history as a crucial lesson for its officers."We were warriors," Deputy Chief Bill Scott recently told a room filled with LAPD rank-and-file officers, a group of fresh-faced rookies watching from the front, the Los Angeles Times reports.Now, he said, officers need to think of themselves as guardians
  
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• Jurors Reportedly Deadlocked in Manslaughter Trial of North Carolina Officer

  21-08-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As deliberations moved into a 4th day Friday, a Mecklenburg County jury signaled to the trial judge just before noon that they were deadlocked in the voluntary manslaughter trial of Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer Randall Kerrick.Jurors told Judge Robert Ervin that they had taken 3 votes so far, and after the third vote were still split 8-4. Neither they nor the judge gave any indication of which way the 8 jurors were leaning, WBT TV reports.Officer Kerrick's lead defense attorney, George L
  
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• Video: Florida Deputy Shot, Critically Wounded During Prostitution Bust

  21-08-2015 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Florida Deputy Shot, Critically Wounded During Prostitution BustA Brevard County, Fla., deputy ambushed and shot multiple times during a prostitution bust Thursday night remained in critical condition Friday.The wounded officer has been identified as Agent John “Casey” Smith.The accused gunman was also shot when authorities returned fire, but his injuries were not-life-threatening."We are still very early in the investigation and we’re trying to put the pieces together o
  
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• Improving ECW Tactics and Policies

  21-08-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was my honor as a young police officer in 1979 to be assigned as the LAPD's researcher for nonlethal weapons and to later become very close friends with NASA researcher and TASER inventor Jack Cover until we lost him in 2009, may he rest in peace.I had no idea back in 1979 that police use of force would become my life's work. I jokingly "blame it all" on my supervisor and mentor, LAPD Sgt. Chuck Sale, who is long retired and living the good life climbing mountains in Colorado. Chuck was an in
  
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• Hotel/Motel Registry Checks

  21-08-2015 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you were a dope dealer and didn't want your customers to know where you lived, where might you set up meets that would keep your transactions out of public view (and therefore out of police view)? If you were a pimp and wanted to traffic young runaway girls to men seeking private access to underage prostitutes, what would be the ideal location? Same question, if you were a smuggler of illegal aliens, or a kidnapper, or an identity thief selling counterfeit credit cards, or a pedophile arrangi
  
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• DHS Federal Protective Service Chooses Envisage to Automate Academy Training Management

  21-08-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Envisage Technologies, a Bloomington, Indiana-based high-technology firm, has been awarded a multi-year contract by the Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service (FPS). FPS chose the Acadis Readiness Suite to replace its legacy systems with a modern, modular software solution.FPS will implement Acadis to automate training academy management for its law enforcement and non-law enforcement personnel at their training academy in Glynco, Ga. Additionally, FPS will look to leverage t
  
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• Bomb Threat at a Middle School

  21-08-2015 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In every call for service, you should think things through before you begin your response. Each call can be broken down into three phases: pre-response, response, and post-response. The following scenario is designed to help you think things through rather than give you a specific way to handle the call.SituationIt's 13:30 on a Tuesday and dispatch advises you that someone called the local middle school advising he planted a bomb and it is set to go off at 14:30, just as school lets out. The onl
  
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• Video: Grand Jury Says New Jersey Officers Justified in Fatal Shooting

  21-08-2015 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Grand Jury Says New Jersey Officers Justified in Fatal ShootingNo criminal charges will be filed against the two Bridgeton, N.J., police officers who said they "feared for their lives" the night they shot at and killed Jerame C. Reid during a December traffic stop.The Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office announced the grand jury decision Thursday, the Daily Journal reports.The conclusion of an eight-month investigation into the deadly police encounter produced the most detailed account y
  
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• Video: Florida Officers Save Girl and Father From House Fire, Father Charged with Arson

  21-08-2015 00:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Officers Rescue Man and Daughter from Fire, Father ChargedA man rescued from an Orlando house fire early Thursday morning has been arrested, reports WOFL.Robert Merritt, 49, is charged with attempted murder and arson. Investigators said he intentionally set a fire which endangered his 6-year-old daughter.Orlando police officers are being hailed as heroes after they pulled Merritt and his daughter from the burning home just after 5:00 a.m.The officers said they arrived within minutes and s
  
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• The Next-Generation Moving Target

  21-08-2015 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Managing partner of GNAT Warfare George Ford says the company has a motto. "We blow stuff up." It's even on Ford's business card, only it doesn't say "stuff." GNAT Warfare's motto is currently very accurate. But it might not be soon.The company was built on exploding radio-controlled aerial targets. Now GNAT Warfare is expanding its offerings with a new line of radio-controlled ground targets for law enforcement, military, and civilian tactical training.GNAT Warfare's new Tactical Target is a fa
  
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