• Berkeley police investigating attempted kidnapping of three girls near College ... - abc7news.com

    Berkeley police investigating attempted kidnapping of three girls near College ...
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    Police are investigating reports of a suspect attempting to lure three girls into a van in Berkeley Sunday evening, a month after a similar incident occurred near one of the city's schools. Berkeley police said three girls were walking at 6:10 p.m ...and more »
  • Police pursuit ends in crash, closes N. Main St. - WHIO

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    Police pursuit ends in crash, closes N. Main St.
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    Dayton police shut down North Main Street near the I-75 overpass Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, after a crash where people reportedly fled from one of the vehicles involved. (Marshall Gorby/Staff). View Larger · Police pursuit ends in crash, closes N. Main St ...and more »
  • San Diego PD Solves Cases Using Carfax Investigative Tools

    San Diego PD Solves Cases Using Carfax Investigative Tools
    The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has partnered with Carfax so that key investigative resources from Carfax now are used by California's third-largest police department. SDPD investigators get no-cost, dedicated access to vehicle information from Carfax at www.carfaxforpolice.com that helps them track vehicles of interest, solve crimes faster, and better protect their citizens."We're proud to help the San Diego Police Department improve their police force with zero impact on their budget,"
  • Avon Acquires Argus Thermal Imaging Camera Business from E2V Technologies PLC

    Avon Rubber has acquired the thermal imaging camera business Argus, a subsidiary of e2v Technologies PLC. Argus, based in Chelmsford, UK, is a designer and manufacturer of thermal imaging cameras for first responder and fire markets.Andrew Lewis, Interim Chief Executive Officer, said, "The addition of Argus to the Group further broadens the range of products we are able to offer our customers in the key fire and first responder markets. The Argus team brings a wealth of technical expertise in th
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  • Video: Philly Police Commissioner Announces Retirement

    Video: Philly Police Commissioner Announces Retirement
    VIDEO: Philly Police Commissioner Announces RetirementPhiladelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced on Wednesday that he will retire after exactly eight years on the job."I want to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity to serve in this great city," he said.Ramsey's retirement will be effective on January 7th, the anniversary of his swearing-in back in 2008. He thanked Mayor Michael Nutter, whose second term also ends in January, WPVI TV reports."I came out of retirement to co
  • Video: North Carolina Police Station Mural Tagged with "Kill a Cop" Graffiti

    Video: North Carolina Police Station Mural Tagged with "Kill a Cop" Graffiti
    VIDEO: North Carolina Police Station Mural Tagged with "Kill a Cop" GraffitiThe new police station in Garner, NC, sports a mural on the outside, and on Friday it was defaced with this message: “Kill A Cop, Save A Child.”On Sunday, as news spread about the incident, the police chief was livid about the incident.“A hate crime in my opinion; it must stop,” Chief Brandon Zuidema told WNCN TV. 
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  • Video: Minnesota Deputy Killed in Hospital Gun Grab Incident

    Video: Minnesota Deputy Killed in Hospital Gun Grab Incident
    VIDEO: Minnesota Deputy Killed in Hospital Gun Grab IncidentAn Aitkin County, MN, investigator was shot and killed with his own duty pistol by an inmate at St. Cloud Hospital early Sunday morning, and the suspect later died after a confrontation with responding hospital security officers.The deputy was identified as Investigator Steven Martin Sandberg, 60. He had worked with the Aitkin County Sheriff’s Office since 1991, KTSP TV reports.According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehe
  • Veteran Maryland Officer Pleads Guilty to Charges from Off-Duty Testicle-Biting Fight

    Veteran Maryland Officer Pleads Guilty to Charges from Off-Duty Testicle-Biting Fight
    A veteran Anne Arundel County, MD, police officer has left the department after pleading guilty to charges of public intoxication and endangering the safety of another person. The charges stemmed from an off-duty incident in which the officer reportedly bit a man in the testicles during a fight outside a bar in May.Michael Flaig, a Northern District officer and 10-year veteran of the department, became involved in an argument with a man outside Looney's Pub in Canton after the man told Flaig to
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  • Oakland Councilwoman Wants Police to Lower Written Test Standard for Recruits to Achieve More Officer Diversity

    Oakland City Councilwoman Desley Brooks wants the Oakland Police Department to lower written exam requirements in order to open the door to greater diversity among officers.Brooks is specifically pushing for more black officers in the Oakland PD.Brooks chairs the Public Safety Committee and says she wants “a Police Department that’s reflective of the community they serve.” Brooks points out that the city’s black population is 28 percent but only 20 percent of officers are
  • NYPD to Let Officers Handcuff Suspects in Front

    The NYPD will soon allow officers to handcuff criminal suspects with their hands in front instead of behind their backs as part of the use-of-force overhaul — a change one police source called “total lunacy.”“They want to say they’re a kinder, gentler police force by coming up with a new policy on front-cuffing. But it invites danger,” the source said.NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis told The New York Post that the change — which will go into effect Jan. 1 &
  • FBI: 51 Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed in 2014

    FBI: 51 Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed in 2014
    On May 29, 2014, a 42-year-old trooper with the New York State Police made a traffic stop on an interstate highway north of Binghamton. The veteran trooper parked behind the stopped car and approached the driver’s side window. In that fleeting moment, a truck traveling in the same direction at about 90 miles per hour suddenly swerved, sideswiping the car and striking the trooper, killing him instantly. The truck’s driver, a 60-year-old male with a criminal record, admitted after his
  • Detroit Pastor Shoots, Kills Man Attacking Him During Church Service

    Detroit police say the pastor of a storefront church shot and killed a man who tried to attack him during a service.Assistant Detroit Police Chief Steve Dolunt tells the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press the shooting happened Sunday afternoon just after the start of a service at the City of God church.Dolunt says the man and the pastor had prior "issues." He says the man was threatening the pastor with a brick when the pastor pulled out a pistol and shot him several times, the Associated Press
  • California Lt. Gov. Pushes Background Checks for Ammunition Initiative

    California Lt. Gov. Pushes Background Checks for Ammunition Initiative
    California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and a group of activists announced their intention Thursday to put a tough firearms-control measure on California's ballot next year aimed at requiring background checks for ammunition purchases and forcing gun owners to give up large-capacity magazines.Newsom's measure would require owners to turn the outlawed magazines into police for destruction, sell them to a licensed firearms dealer or move them out of the state -- just as San Francisco supervisors and Sunn
  • Albuquerque Police Face Officer Shortage

    Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden says he expects the police department’s ranks to shrink for another year or so, even though the size and number of police academy classes have increased and hundreds of “qualified candidates” are expressing interest in the department every month.The department has 135 fewer officers than the 1,000 authorized, Eden said, and the number who will become eligible to retire will outpace police academy graduates until about January 2017. A police
  • Shots Fired: North Liberty, Iowa 03-10-2013

    Shots Fired: North Liberty, Iowa 03-10-2013
    Sounds of the fight disturbed the neighbors in the Holiday Mobile Home Park. They'd heard the couple go at it before. But this one was different. There had been screaming and yelling, car and trailer doors slamming, then the young man and the young woman zoomed away in separate vehicles only to return so the battle could continue and get even worse.Neighbors peered out of the windows of their trailers hoping she was finally going to leave him. Maybe it would be for good this time. But they quick
  • Police Taser man on roof of burning house - Indianapolis Star

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    Police Taser man on roof of burning house
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    Ami Ackles said her 25-year-old ex-boyfriend was behaving erratically Monday morning before he snatched her car keys from her hand, hopped into her recently purchased car and began speeding away from her Layman Avenue home. After shearing a utility ...and more »
  • Club owner: Troy police fight had nothing to do with bar - Albany Times Union

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    Club owner: Troy police fight had nothing to do with bar
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    Cleshawn Banks, 32 of Colonie, was arrested for second-degree assault for allegedly attacking police while they were trying to break up a fight in Troy Oct. 18, 2015. (Troy police). Cleshawn Banks, 32 of Colonie, was arrested for second-degree assault ...and more »
  • York man shot, killed by police - WGAL Lancaster

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    York man shot, killed by police
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    YORK, Pa. —Two York City police officers are on administrative leave after they shot and killed a man over the weekend. Related. Man steals $900 worth of baby formula... Bay windows shattered by... Runners complete 6th annual Hershey... 1 killed in ...
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  • Eritrean man killed, brutalized when Bedouin shoots Israeli security forces - CNN

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    Eritrean man killed, brutalized when Bedouin shoots Israeli security forces
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    Jerusalem (CNN) An Israeli soldier has been killed in a shooting spree at a bus station in Beersheba, southern Israel, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The attacker -- identified by police as a Bedouin man -- was killed in the shootout on ...
  • Police Seek Clues After Deadly Shooting at ZombiCon - ABC News

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    Police Seek Clues After Deadly Shooting at ZombiCon
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    Police stand early Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, near the site of a shooting late Saturday at ZombiCon that police say killed on person and injured four others in Fort Myers Fla. (Benjamin Brasch/The News-Press via AP)more +. 0 Shares. Email. When the ...
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  • The Latest: Police say attacker was Arab citizen of Israel - Washington Post

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    The Latest: Police say attacker was Arab citizen of Israel
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    JERUSALEM — The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local). ___. 9:50 a.m.. Israeli security officials are identifying the assailant of an Israeli bus station attack as a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel. Israeli ...
    Israeli solider killed, 10 wounded in attack on bus station, police sayCBS News
    Eritrean Migrant Dies After Mistaken Shooting by Israeli PoliceVoi
  • Local police departments hope for body camera money from state - Waco Tribune-Herald

    Local police departments hope for body camera money from state
    Waco Tribune-Herald
    Some smaller police departments in McLennan County are hoping to get a piece of a new $10 million state grant program to pay for body cameras, but the two biggest local agencies, the Waco Police Department and the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, ...and more »
  • New Haven police support anti-bullying program, help with new videos - New Haven Register

    New Haven police support anti-bullying program, help with new videos
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    NEW HAVEN >> An anti-bullying initiative acquired a new target this summer: police and community relations. LiveKind, a Connecticut-based nonprofit focused mostly on bullying, spoke with campers at New Haven Police Department's annual youth camp ...
  • Uganda: End Police Obstruction of Gatherings - Human Rights Watch

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    Uganda: End Police Obstruction of Gatherings
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    Anti-riot police fire canisters of colored teargas to disperse supporters of opposition Forum for Democratic Change during a procession to welcome their leader Kizza Besigye in Kampala on May 12, 2011. © 2011 Reuters. (Kampala) – Ugandan police are ...
    HRW Calls for Uganda Police to Allow Opposition GatheringsVoice of Americaall 3 news articles »
  • Hong Kong pro-democracy activist faces legal battle with police - CNN

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    Hong Kong pro-democracy activist faces legal battle with police
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    (CNN) A prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist will appear in a local court on Monday along with seven police officers who have been charged with beating him. Ken Tsang Kin-chiu, a member of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Civic Party, was allegedly ...
    AS IT HAPPENED: Occupy protester Ken Tsang and seven police officers accused ...South China Morning Post (subscription)
    BREAKING: Ken Tsang granted HK$300 bail over polic
  • Police believe to have found body of missing girl - FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay

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    Police believe to have found body of missing girl
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    Bradenton investigators believe they have found the body of a missing 11-year-old girl who hasn't been seen since 2014. A medical examiner will determine if the remains are confirmed to be Janiya Thomas. The girl's mother, Keishanna Thomas, is being ...
    Police chief: Missing 11-year-old girl found deadOrlando Sentinel
    Police: Body in Freezer Believed to Be Missing Florida GirlABC News
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  • Police seek info on missing Ga. Tech student - WXIA-TV

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    Police seek info on missing Ga. Tech student
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    ATLANTA -- Police are searching for a missing Georgia Tech student and fraternity vice president who has been missing since Friday. Loading… Post to Facebook. Police seek info on missing Ga. Tech student ATLANTA -- Police are searching for a missing ...
    Police search for missing Georgia Tech studentWSB Atlanta
    Police search for Georgia Tech studentWTVMall 5 news articles »
  • Mansfield police pursuit ends in crash - Mansfield News Journal

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    Mansfield police pursuit ends in crash
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    MANSFIELD — A driver who was being pursued by police Sunday evening crashed his car, attempted to run from the scene on foot and had a stun gun used on him. Alcohol was believed to be a factor in the crash, police say. Police were pursuing a vehicle ...
  • Police: Pastor shoots, kills attacker in church - Detroit Free Press

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    Police: Pastor shoots, kills attacker in church
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    A Detroit church service turned tragic today when a man with a brick went after the pastor, but likely didn't anticipate what would follow: the pastor pulled out a semiautomatic pistol and fatally shot the man, police said. “They knew each other and ...
    Police: Detroit Pastor Fatally Shot Attacker During ServiceABC News
    Detroit Pastor Fatally Shoots Attacker During Church Service, Police SayHuffington Po
  • Police: 3 accused of robbing, sexually assaulting woman - azcentral.com

    Police: 3 accused of robbing, sexually assaulting woman
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    Three people were arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of robbing and assaulting a 26-year-old woman late Saturday, Phoenix police said. A woman told police she spent Saturday evening with two men and a woman. She took the trio to a check-cashing ...and more »
  • Police Investigate Alleged Sexual Assault Attempt in Union Square Park - NY1

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    Police Investigate Alleged Sexual Assault Attempt in Union Square Park
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    Police are investigating an alleged attempted sexual assault that took place in Union Square Park Sunday afternoon. Authorities say they were called to a public bathroom in Union Square around 1 p.m. When they arrived, they say they spoke to a 63-year ...
    Police: Homeless man sexually assaults woman in Union Square Park restroomWABC-TVall 7 news articles »
  • Israeli solider killed, 10 wounded in attack on bus station, police say - CBS News

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    Israeli solider killed, 10 wounded in attack on bus station, police say
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    JERUSALEM -- An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a month long wave of violence. The ...
    The Latest: Israeli police mistakenly shoot foreignerYahoo News
    Israeli police: Man with knife shot at Jerusalem's Damascus GateCNN
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  • Part-time police officer dies in hit-and-run crash - KMBC Kansas City

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    Part-time police officer dies in hit-and-run crash
    KMBC Kansas City
    GOOD EVENING, I'M SCOTT MCDONNELL. KISHA: AND I'M KISHA HENRY. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED FRIDAY MORNING IN OVERLAND PARK NEAR 123RD AND METCALF. THAT'S WHERE WE FIND KMBC 9'S ELI ROSENBERG WHO HAS NEW ...
    Overland Park police officer injured by alleged shoplifter in Walmart parking lotKSHB
    Part-time police officer identified as OP traffic crash victimKansas City Starall 7 news articles »
  • State police investigating armed robbery at High's Dairy store in Smithsburg - Herald-Mail Media

    State police investigating armed robbery at High's Dairy store in Smithsburg
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    SMITHSBURG — Maryland State Police are seeking the public's help in their investigation of an armed robbery Saturday night at a High's Dairy store along Jefferson Boulevard. State police said they were told that a male wearing all-black clothing, a ...and more »
  • Suspect Arrested in Morning Shooting, Locals React, Police Grateful of Tips - WSAV-TV

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    Suspect Arrested in Morning Shooting, Locals React, Police Grateful of Tips
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    DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, GA – A Metro spokesperson says Savannah resident Frank Wilson was shot and killed this morning just after 2 A.M. in Savannah's City Market. Officers were questioning witnesses this morning and were on scene for several hours ...and more »

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