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• Video: Houston PD Bans Shooting at People in Vehicles

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  VIDEO: Houston PD Bans Shooting at People in VehiclesHouston police officers are now not allowed to fire their weapons when faced with a suspect who is trying to run them over, according to a memo obtained by ABC-13 Tuesday.The former policy allowed officers to use deadly force when their lives were threatened by a suspect in a vehicle. Under state law a vehicle can be considered a deadly weapon.In the memo dated September 25th, 2015, Houston Police Chief Charles McClellan wrote, "Effective imme
  
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• Video: Florida Deputies Dance "Thriller" for Terminally Ill Little Boy

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  VIDEO: Florida Deputies Dance "Thriller" for Terminally Ill Little BoyA group of Pasco County, Fla., deputies went above and beyond the call of duty, battling zombies and giving a little boy with a terminal illness a day he'll never forget.Spencer Holt, 7, has spent far too many days in hospital rooms, battling a form of Mitochondrial disease and seizures."There's no cure for it, no timeline for how long of what his future holds," his mother Cher told Fox News 13. "We just live day by day."When
  
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• Republican Senators Push for Stiffer Penalties for Attacking Officers

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  Two Republican senators are pushing for stiffer punishments for those who attack firefighters, police officers and criminal prosecutors.The two senators, Jeff Sessions (Ala.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.), say the tougher punishments are necessary because of an increase in violence against police.“It is important that we send the message that police lives also matter, and that if you target a police officer with violence, you will receive a harsh penalty,” Toomey said in a statement.“Th
  
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• Police Say 13 Dead in Mass Shooting at Oregon Community College, Suspect Dead

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  Oregon State Police say 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded when a single gunman opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College this morning. Several sources, including Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, say the shooter, 20, is one of the dead.A school official said the attack occurred at Snyder Hall. The first 911 call came at 10:38 a.m. Oregon State Police say the shooter was engaged by law enforcement, but it is not known if he was killed by officers or killed himself.Nea
  
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• NYPD Officers Now Required to Document in Detail All Uses of Force

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  For the first time in its modern history, the New York Police Department is establishing explicit guidelines — backed by a sweeping new tracking system — for using and documenting force.Every police officer will have to detail virtually every instance when force is used not only in an arrest but also in other encounters with the public, including the sort of brief, violent detention and release that occurs routinely on the street and, in the case of the retired tennis star James Blak
  
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• New York City Joins Strong Cities Network Counter-Terrorism Program

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  The de Blasio administration said on Tuesday that New York City would join a Justice Department program aimed at rooting out terrorist recruiting efforts in the nation’s cities, even though its tactics have raised concerns among some civil libertarians.The decision to join the program, called the Strong Cities Network, had drawn scrutiny from American Muslim activists, the New York Civil Liberties Union and civil rights lawyers. More than a dozen groups urged Mayor Bill de Blasio
  
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• Chicago Officers Credited with Saving Wounded Baby's Life After Shooting

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  Two Chicago police officers arrived to Monday night's chaotic quintuple shooting scene in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and were immediately met by a woman carrying a wounded baby.The baby, 11-month-old Princeton Chew, was losing a lot of blood. No ambulances were in sight.The Deering District officers, John Conneely and Michael Modzelewski, were left with no choice but to go against department protocol -- and drive Princeton to the hospital on their own, the Chicago Tribune reports.Princet
  
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• Can The Race of a Subject Be Determined from a Fingerprint?

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  For years, forensic scientists have studied differences between latent fingerprints and have used this information to identify unique patterns. Now, a new study takes a closer look at the minutiae of fingerprints and has come to an astounding conclusion: latent prints can provide clues to a person’s race.The study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology takes a new anthropological angle on a key identification method which may hold promise for law enforcement – and which has
  
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• Bratton, Tracking Police Use of Force, Aims to Stay Step Ahead of Watchdogs - New York Times

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  Bratton, Tracking Police Use of Force, Aims to Stay Step Ahead of Watchdogs
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  On the same day the inspector general for the police issued a report detailing deficiencies in how force is defined and tracked by the New York Police Department, Commissioner William J. Bratton announced on Thursday that many of the changes called for ...
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• Justifying Your Agency's Acquisition of Armored Vehicles

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  The headline from an article on the extremely liberal Mother Jones magazine's website reads: "Documents Reveal the Fear Mongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon." The article itself includes research that uncovered more than 450 police department requests for armored vehicles from the Pentagon and references a "furious debate over billions of federal dollars that have helped local police forces amass combat-style weapons, trucks, and armor." And of course Mother Jones ar
  
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• Missing Elderly Man with Dementia

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  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.SituationYou get a call about a missing elderly white male who left his residence somewhere between 21:00 and 04:00 while his caregiver was sleeping. The gentleman is 74 years old and expected to
  
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• The Guardians of the Border

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  The following is taken from "Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer" by Sylvia Longmire.All law enforcement agencies with a border security mission face challenges, including red tape, lack of funding, corruption, low morale, and personnel and management problems. But the core agents and officers strongly believe in the mission and feed off of their victories enough to get them through to the next day. Many of them—particularly in the United States Bord
  
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• Man 'critical' after Bethlehem DUI crash; he shoved girlfriend to safety ... - Allentown Morning Call

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  Man 'critical' after Bethlehem DUI crash; he shoved girlfriend to safety ...
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  Friends have created this Go Fund Me page for Jeremy Magditch, who was struck by a drunken driver in Bethlehem on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Magditch does not have insurance. He is in a medically induced coma. Friends have created this Go Fund Me ...and more »
  

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