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• Wall Street Journal: America’s Legal Order Begins to Fray

  15-09-2015 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  After two decades of the most remarkable crime drop in U.S. history, law enforcement has come to this: “I’m deliberately not getting involved in things I would have in the 1990s and 2000s,” an emergency-services officer in New York City tells me. “I won’t get out of my car for a reasonable-suspicion stop; I will if there’s a violent felony committed in my presence.”A virulent antipolice campaign over the past year—initially fueled by a since-discre
  
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• Michigan Sheriff Demands Facebook Take Down Pages Promoting Anti-Police Violence

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  Oakland County, Mich.,Sheriff Mike Bouchard is demanding Amazon end sales of T-shirts with the slogan "(expletive) the police" and Facebook shut down pages by the same name."Social media has become a main source of propaganda for the anti-law enforcement movement and it is disgusting that Facebook continues to permit '(expletive) the police' pages and groups for public consumption," Bouchard wrote in a statement issued Monday.Bouchard issued the statement from the Major County Sheriff's Associat
  
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• Anti-DUI Checkpoint Lawyer Goes to DUI Checkpoint to be Stopped, Gets Arrested

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  A Florida attorney behind a controversial method to get out of a DUI checkpoint has ended up in handcuffs.Warren Redlich’s technique requires you to not lower your window or speak to officers at a checkpoint.  He tried it in Coral Gables and it ended with him being arrested. He’s extremely happy about it though and says you should be too.Attorney Warren Redlich’s method to avoid a DUI checkpoint gained a lot of press earlier this year.  Instead of lowering your window
  
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• Suspect in Kentucky Trooper’s Murder was a "Black Lives Matter" Backer

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  A Missouri man suspected of fatally shooting a Kentucky state trooper Sunday was an active supporter of the "Black Lives Matter" movement who advocated against violence, a Facebook page shows.Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, who was shot dead by police Monday morning, appears to have regularly posted videos and articles on police shootings under the pseudonym "Jay MileHigh," Vocativ reported.On that Facebook page, photos appear to show the 25-year-old St. Louis man attending a funera
  
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• New Jersey Officer Prepares Meal for Elderly Woman After Responding to Medical Alert

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  A Jackson Township ,N.J., police officer is being praised for helping an elderly woman in need.Officer James Reynolds responded to 84-year-old Eleanor Metzker's home after she used her medical alert system."I went into her house, met with her and she was sitting at her table and she was rambling on about needing to eat dinner," Officer Reynolds says.Metzker told News 12 that she lives alone and gets around by using a walker. She told Officer Reynolds that she was in need of her medication, which
  
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• Illinois Deputy Dies 11 Months After Being Shot

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  Dwight Maness, a McHenry County, Ill., sheriff's deputy who was shot in Holiday Hills during a call last October, died Monday.Maness, 47, of McHenry, was one of two deputies wounded Oct. 16, 2014, along with Khalia Satkiewicz, 39. They were the first responders at a domestic disturbance during which a gunman in Holiday Hills opened fire.A former Army Ranger and seven-year department veteran, Maness was shot in the abdomen and twice in the left leg by a .223-caliber AR15 rifle. He underwent multi
  
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• Video: Baby Saved from Burning Truck by Off-Duty Tennessee SRO

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  VIDEO: Baby Saved from Burning Truck by Off-Duty Tennessee SROAn 8-month-old baby was trapped in a burning pickup truck and saved by a Humphreys County (Tenn.) deputy. “It’s the same route I take every day,” said Deputy Mike Adcox as he was driving on Highway 70 in Dickson County.Adcox is also a school resource officer for McEwen schools. He was off the clock on his way home from a high school bonfire last Thursday night around 10 p.m. when he came upon an accident.Accordi
  
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