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• New Jersey Officer Hospitalized After Being Bitten by Woman

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  A 25-year-old Aberdeen Township,N.J., woman bit a police officer and "refused to let go" Saturday night after resisting arrest, police said.Several officers responded at around 10 p.m. to a residence on Hawthorne Street in the Cliffwood Beach section of town after receiving a report of a fight, Chief John Powers said in an email.He said a female, later identified as Jennifer Loughlin, "appeared to be heavily intoxicated, uncooperative, and disorderly."After told she was under arrest, Loughlin "p
  
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• Missouri Officer Pulls Constricting Python Off Woman's Arm

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  A Mount Vernon, Mo., police officer is being hailed as a hero for calmly removing a 5-foot python that sank its teeth into a woman’s arm and began to squeeze tightly Friday.Cpl. Shaun Cobb told the Springfield News-Leader it was the first “python call” he’s ever had.“I walked into the house and saw a female with a large ball python coiled up on her arm,” Cobb recalled. “There was discoloration on her arm from the snake’s constriction — it was
  
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• Miami Officer's Finger Nearly Bitten Off, Attacker Shot and Killed

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  A Miami-Dade police officer shot and killed a man along an entrance ramp to I-95 during heavy rush hour traffic, after chasing him into shrubbery, deploying a TASER, and almost getting his finger bitten off.The officer, a nine-year veteran whose name wasn't released, was at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center having his finger reattached Monday morning.The dead man, 31, whose name also wasn't released because his family hadn’t been notified, remained in the shrubs near the entr
  
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• FBI to Collect and Publish More Data on Officer-Involved Shootings

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  Federal authorities plan to collect additional information about shootings involving law enforcement and will begin publishing a report with more details on how police use deadly force, FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday.Comey described this information as necessary for the ongoing debate over policing in the United States. Continuing “without comprehensive data only stalls meaningful conversation and fuels empty debates, both within law enforcement and i
  
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• Video: Shoplifting Suspect Dies in Custody of Indianapolis Police

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  VIDEO: Shoplifting Suspect Dies in Custody of Indianapolis PoliceIndianapolis police are investigating the death of a shoplifting suspect who died in custody after complaining of breathing problems.Terrell Day, 18, died in the back of a police ambulance on Saturday after twice complaining of breathing issues during his arrest, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.Officers responding to a report of an armed man in a Burlington Coat Factory store on Saturday afternoon learn
  
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• Video: NFL Player's Wife Arrested for Assaulting Officer at Game

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  VIDEO: NFL Player's Wife Arrested for Assaulting Officer at GameMiko Grimes, wife of Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes, was arrested at Sunday’s Dolphins-Bills game by Miami-Dade Police.Grimes was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct, police told the Daily Dolphin.Police said after she ignored orders not to walk into a restricted area outside the stadium, the situation escalated to the point that she head-but
  
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• Illinois Agencies Cancel Police Training Because of Budget Crisis

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  Police departments across Illinois say the state budget stalemate has left them struggling to provide necessary training to officers on everything from how to deal with the mentally ill to proper use of force.Hundreds of classes are being canceled at a time of heightened tension between police and the communities they serve, and as officers are increasingly the first to respond when a person with a mental illness is in crisis, law enforcement officials say.It's also happening just months after l
  
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• Escaped Pet Monkey Damages Florida Patrol Car

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  The Sanford (Fla.) Police Department will have to fix some of the damage to one of its patrol cars caused this morning by some monkey business.A resident of Sanford called police shortly after 8 a.m. Monday to report there was a monkey eating their mail, police said.The Sanford PD recounted the incident on its Facebook page, posting photos and video showing Zeek climbing on a traffic sign and then the police vehicle, ABC News reports."When we arrived to help the monkey, later identifie
  
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• Dallas Chief Fights for Higher Pay for Officers

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  Days after an alleged attempt to oust him, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said he will fight for higher pay for officers and blasted critics who question the department’s statistical crime decline during the last 11 years.Brown stood at the podium, which is unusual, when he spoke Monday at the City Council’s public safety committee. He spoke deliberately and calmly, but maintained past talking points: Those who question crime stats have no evidence, that he has to hol
  
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• Evanston police officer photographed asleep in squad car - WLS-TV

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  The Evanston Police Department says it's embarrassed after one of its officers was photographed asleep in his police car this weekend. Embed. <iframe width="476" height="270" src="http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1005204" frameborder="0" ...and more »
  

• Records show man killed by police was previously suicidal - KSL.com

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  Records show man killed by police was previously suicidal
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  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Court records show a Delaware man who reportedly shot himself and refused commands to drop his weapon before being killed by police while in his wheelchair had previously expressed suicidal thoughts and had a history of ...
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