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• Video: Unusual Vehicle Pursuit Ends with Officers Helping Motorist with Medical Emergency

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  VIDEO: Unusual Vehicle Pursuit Ends with Officers Helping Motorist with Medical EmergencyCalls reporting a reckless driver on I-135 in North Newton, Kan., turned out to be a medical emergency. Police responded to the calls on Saturday afternoon, and say how things played out was very unusual. Despite turning on their lights and sirens, the car that police were tailing didn't stop. In dash cam video, you can hear Deputy Chief Jim Bethards of the North Newton Police Department shout, "Stop yo
  
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• Utility Develops Redaction Technology for Police Video

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  Utility Associates Inc., today announced it has unveiled a state-of-the-art software that will blur-out faces and personally identifiable markings such as body tattoos to protect the privacy and identity of victims, innocent bystanders, minors and, undercover police officers in police in-car and body-worn video.  The company says its Smart Redaction software will save millions of dollars in manual video redaction labor costs and further ensure police protection, accountability, and transpar
  
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• Suspect in Sunday Night Murder of Kentucky Trooper Killed by State Police

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  A man suspected of fatally shooting a Kentucky trooper Sunday night was shot and killed by state police early Monday morning.Authorities said 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, of Missouri, was located in a remote rural area near I-24 around 7 a.m., following an all-night manhunt. Johnson-Shanks was armed with a handgun and did not comply with several commands to drop his weapon, Sgt. Mike Webb told FoxNews."That gave the trooper closest to him no choice but to fire his agency-issued weap
  
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• Man Killed After Reportedly Shooting Oklahoma Chief

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  A law enforcement encounter with a McAlester, Okla., man turned deadly early Sunday morning, leaving the man dead and a local police chief seriously wounded.At about 6 a.m. Sunday a homeowners in Pond Creek called police about a man trying to get inside their home, according to a press release from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.The Pond Creek police chief, a Grant County sheriff's deputy and two Medford police officers arrived on the scene and began speaking with man, the Enid News
  
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• LAPD Loaned Luxury Electric Vehicles for Testing

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  The Los Angeles Police Department recently showed off a Tesla Model S P85D and a BMW i3 as the newest members of its police car fleet in the name of “testing and research.” The two high-end automobiles are being loaned to the LAPD and were unveiled as part of the announcement of a broader plan to bring 288 new electric and hybrid vehicles to Los Angeles’ city-owned fleet.On Friday, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the Los Angeles police, fire, general services,
  
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• Baltimore Mayor Seeks to Make Interim Chief Permanent

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  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will look to make acting police commissioner Kevin Davis the permanent head of the city police department, her spokesman said Monday.Rawlings-Blake reached out to City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young today to seek council approval for the decision, said Kevin Harris, the mayor's spokesman. Harris did not reveal the details of the contract, including its length, saying that the terms were still being finalized."The mayor has been pleased with ene
  
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• Three Texas Troopers Injured at Traffic Stop Near Amarillo

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  A manhunt is now underway after three Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers and one from Virginia were injured early Sunday afternoon during a routine traffic stop near Conway, Texas.Two of the troopers were taken to an Amarillo hospital; one was treated on scene, but not transported.The Texas Rangers are now looking for Victor Apodaca, 25. Authorities say Apodaca is still at large, ABC 7 reports.  Apodaca is wanted out of Clovis, N.M., for several counts of stolen firearms, poss
  
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• Video: Pennsylvania Police Chief Dies from Accidental Gunshot While Cleaning Pistol

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  VIDEO: Pennsylvania Police Chief Dies from Accidental Gunshot While Cleaning PistolPennsylvania State Police say a Lawrence County police chief was killed Sunday.They say he accidentally shot himself in the chest over the weekend while cleaning a .40 caliber pistol at his home. Police say he was home alone at the time, but was discovered a short while later by his girlfriend, KDKA TV reports.Chief Edward Macri, 56, of the Bessemer Borough Police Department was taken to Jameson Hospital where he
  
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• Thousands Participate in Texas "Police Lives Matter" March

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  VIDEO: Thousands Participate in Texas "Police Lives Matter" MarchThousands took part in a Police Lives Matter march on in Houston on Saturday.The event honored Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth who was gunned down at a gas station in Cypress last month.An estimated 10,000 people — in jeeps, on bikes and on foot — participated. No matter how they were moving, the message was the same."Police lives matter; all lives matter," one participant told WFAA TV. 
  
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• Kentucky Trooper Shot, Killed at Traffic Stop

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  The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky State Police trooper is in custody, said Judge Executive Wade White of Lyon County, Ky.Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, 25, of Missouri, was wanted after his alleged involvement in a high-speed chase and killing of Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, 31.Trooper Ponder was conducting a traffic stop on Johnson-Shanks' vehicle on I-24 around 10:20 p.m. on Sunday.After talking with the trooper, the Johnson-Shanks then drove away.A 10-mile chase ended
  
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