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• Video: LAPD Officers Begin Wearing Body Cameras

  31-08-2015 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: LAPD Officers Begin Wearing Body CamerasOfficers at the Los Angeles Police Department's Mission Division in the San Fernando Valley were equipped with body cameras Monday as part of a roll out of 860 such cameras over the next month.The cameras were provided by $1.5 million in private donations raised by the Los Angeles Police Foundation, according to the LAPD.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti outlined funding for about 7,000 body cameras and equipment in his 2015-16 budget proposal, but th
  
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• Video: Sheriff Clarke Blames President for "War on Police"

  31-08-2015 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Sheriff Clarke Blames President for "War on Police"On Saturday night’s broadcast of “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Milwaukee County, Wis., Sheriff David Clarke reacted to the killing of Harris County, Texas, deputy Darren Goforth, pinning the blame on President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder.According to Clarke, their rhetoric has caused an "open season" on police officers, Breitbart.com reports."I am too pissed off tonight to be diplo
  
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• Milwaukee to Equip All Beat Officers with Body Cameras

  31-08-2015 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  All Milwaukee police officers on the street will be wearing body cameras by the end of 2016 — a pace that outstrips most other large police departments using the technology — under a proposal from Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.The plan was announced Sunday, the Journal-Sentinel reports. 
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• Milwaukee Chief Says Video of Young Men Waving Guns is Recruiting Tool

  31-08-2015 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Milwaukee Chief Says Video of Young Men Waving Guns is Recruiting ToolPolice Chief Edward Flynn said a video shown in a courtroom last week of young men on a Milwaukee street flashing guns, cash and drugs and threatening to shoot police is evidence of sophisticated criminals making propaganda to recruit new members while spreading intimidation over social media.The video was filmed in the middle of the day at N. 32nd St. and W. Auer Ave. — which is just four blocks from the Milwauke
  
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• Michigan Trooper Hit, Dragged in Fatal Highway Accident

  31-08-2015 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michigan State Police motorcycle trooper Chad Wolf was killed Friday when he was hit and dragged by a car in a highway accident.The accident happened on I-75 near Dixie Highway. A vehicle towing a trailer apparently made a lane change and struck Wolf on his motorcycle. The driver, a 72-year-old man from Waterford, then dragged the officer several miles before pulling over at Davisburg Rest Stop in Springfield Township. Sources tell 7 Action News his partner found Wolf unresponsive near the&
  
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• Former NYPD Commissioner Slams Mayor for Endangering City

  31-08-2015 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayor de Blasio has endangered New Yorkers’ lives by abandoning stop-and-frisk — an "amazing surrender" rooted in politics, ex-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly charges in a new book.“De Blasio shrugged and walked away from a routine and useful policing tool, snatching law enforcement defeat from the jaws of legal victory,” Kelly writes in his memoir, “Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City,” the New York Post reports.De Blasio swept awa
  
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• Video: Just Hours After Texas Deputy's Murder Black Lives Matter Chants "Pigs...Fry 'em Like Bacon" in Minnesota

  31-08-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Just Hours After Texas Deputy's Murder Black Lives Matter Chants "Pigs...Fry 'em Like Bacon" in MinnesotaTraffic disruptions and loud messages aren’t the only things memorable about Saturday’s Black Lives Matter march to the gates of the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul.One of the chants heard from protesters is being called “disgusting” by rank and file St. Paul Police officers. Police Federation President Dave Titus says the threatening refrain is divisive, dange
  
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• Suspect Charged with Capital Murder of Texas Deputy, Killer Emptied Magazine into Fallen Man

  31-08-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Harris County (Texas) Sheriff's deputy never saw the man who walked up behind him and shot him in the head before unloading an entire 14-round clip into his body, a Harris County, Texas, prosecutor said Monday.Deputy Darren Goforth was found in a pool of blood next to his patrol car, which he had been filling up with gas at the time of his death, District Attorney Devon Anderson told CNN.Shannon J. Miles is charged with capital murder in Goforth's Friday slaying. He arrived at Harris County
  
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• More Than 1,100 D.C. Officers Express "No Confidence" in Chief Lanier

  31-08-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 1,100 D.C. police officers voted this weekend that they lack confidence in Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier’s ability to manage the department and keep residents safe amid a surging number of homicides.Of 1,150 officers who cast ballots in the online vote sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Police labor union, 1,122 cast a no confidence ballot, according to the organization’s chairman, Delroy Burton.Burton said 28 officers expressed confidence in the chief and her policies. Abo
  
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• Law Enforcement Officers More Wary After Texas Deputy's Ambush

  31-08-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  During his 21 years in law enforcement, Cpl. Wayne Curry hasn't worried much about the approach of strangers.The Texas officer, like anyone who wears a badge, said he has had his share of run-ins with those who harbor a dislike of the police. But when people have stepped up to him, he said, it is "more likely they want to buy me dinner."Curry is now thinking twice. He spoke as he watched over a crowd of about 1,500 people gathered at an impromptu memorial at a gas station in a Houston suburb, wh
  
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• Elzetta Announces Release of Limited Edition Modular Flashlight

  31-08-2015 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Elzetta Design, LLC has announced the release of its 2015 Limited Edition Modular Flashlights.For the first time, an Alpha Model has been chosen for the annual Limited Edition run.  These 315-lumen, single-cell flashlights feature Mini-CQB Bezel Rings and Click Tailcaps, all professionally finished in electric yellow Cerakote over Elzetta’s Type III hard anodizing.The Limited Edition Modular Flashlights are priced the same as standard Model A31s. That means&nb
  
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• Case Against Baltimore Officers in Freddie Gray Death Heads to Court

  31-08-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  After months of sharply worded motions by prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal questions surrounding the officers charged in Freddie Gray's arrest and death will be aired publicly for the first time Wednesday in a solemn, wood-paneled courtroom in downtown Baltimore.Six police officers stand accused in the case, which has captured the nation's attention due to the protests and rioting that followed Gray's death. The officers are not expected to appear at the hearing, which will focus on
  
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