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• Video: Off-Duty Ohio Officer Seriously Injured in Dog Attack

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  VIDEO: Off-Duty Ohio Officer Seriously Injured in Dog AttackAn off duty Lima, OH, police officer was seriously injured in a dog attack Wednesday.  According to the Lima Police Department, third shift patrol officer Mark Link was attacked by two dogs described as "pitbulls."The Allen County Dog Warden's Office was called to the 900 block of North Elizabeth Street because the dogs were loose and attacking people. When the animal control officer arrived, Link had already been bitten in the hea
  
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• Video: Albuquerque Officer Critically Wounded in Traffic Stop Shooting, Suspect in Custody

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  VIDEO: Albuquerque Officer Critically Wounded in Traffic Stop Shooting, Suspect in CustodyAlbuquerque police say an officer who was shot near a Walgreens store in the southeast side of the city Wednesday night is in critical, but stable, condition.The eight-year veteran of APD underwent two surgeries at UNM Hospital overnight. The department has not released his name to make sure all family members and close friends can be notified first, KOB TV reports.The officer was shot around 7:45 p.m. at t
  
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• Thousands Sign Petition Calling for Firing of Florida Officer for Shooting Dog

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  An online petition is calling for the termination of a Florida City, FL, police officer who shot and killed a dog Tuesday morning after it ran out the front door of a home when the officer knocked on the door.The dog's owner, Gillian Palacios, told Local 10 News that the officer knocked on her door at 832 SW Seventh St. to inform her that she had left her car door open.She said her 2-year-old, 40-pound bulldog-mix Duchess ran outside and was shot three times in the head.Palacios said the officer
  
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• Photo of Louisiana Officer Comforting Lost Boy Goes Viral

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  Last weekend was just a normal work weekend for Officer David Taylor. He was patrolling the International Rice Festival in Crowley, La., when a woman brought a young child to his attention: the boy had gotten lost in the crowd.That’s when Taylor picked him up and comforted him until the boy’s mother was found half an hour later.“He was extremely upset...I put him on my shoulders to see if he would be able to see his parents,” said Taylor. “He started to fall asleep,
  
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• Mother of Slain NYPD Officer Says: Blue Lives Matter

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  Every day the brave men and women of the NYPD go out and do their job — to keep us all safe. So why isn’t the city doing the same for the cops?At my son’s wake, I asked pointedly what has changed since the murders of Det. Wenjian Liu and Det. Rafael Ramos. I said that I cried along with everybody else watching on TV.And now I’m standing here once again crying for my son.Almost six months after the slaying of my son, Brian (Moore), I cry for the family of Randolph Holder.
  
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• Man Paid $650K for On-Video Beating by California Deputies in April Arrested on New Assault Charge

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  San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies say that Francis Pusok has been arrested in a reported assault.Pusok first came to the public’s attention when 10 deputies were shown on video beating him after a three-hour pursuit, much of it occurring while he was on a stolen horse, in April. The chase began when deputies tried to serve him with a warrant for an identity theft investigation. Later that month, he reached a $650,000 settlement with San Bernardin
  
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• Man Charged with Tuesday Murder of NYPD Officer was Out of Jail on Diversion Program at Time of Shooting

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  The man charged with the Tuesday murder of NYPD Officer Randolph Holder was in a drug diversion program that kept him out of jail at the time of the shooting.Tyrone Howard, 30, of East Harlem, who has numerous prior gang-related offenses, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Officer Randolph Holder, officials said. He is being held without bail.Holder and other officers were responding to reports of gunshots in East Harlem, which police sources told ABC News was connecte
  
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• Major Drug Tunnel Found on US-Mexico Border in California

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  Mexican authorities said Thursday they seized about 10 tons of marijuana in an elaborate tunnel with a rail car system that extended well into San Diego and was designed to smuggle drugs into the U.S. from Tijuana.The discovery on Wednesday marks one of the longest and more sophisticated clandestine tunnels found on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Associated Press reports.The passage was 9 feet deep and about 2,600 feet long — about three-quarters of that distance in Tijuana and the rest in Sa
  
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• Los Angeles County Sheriff Says No Minor Should Be Charged as a Prostitute

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  Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Wednesday that his department will immediately stop arresting children on prostitution charges."They are child victims and survivors of rape," McDonnell wrote in a letter to his employees. "We must remember that children cannot consent to sex under any circumstance."Changing the way such children are viewed, from suspect to victim, falls in tandem with a national trend in recent years and marks a "major shift from where all of us in policin
  
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• Chiefs, Prosecutors Launch Initiative to Reduce Prison Population

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  More than a hundred of the nation's top police chiefs and prosecutors joined forces this week to launch a new effort to cut the number of people in prison. The new coalition of 120 heavyweights, called Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, is based on one big idea: Putting too many people behind bars doesn't keep the public safe."Our experience has been, and in some ways it's counterintuitive, that you really can reduce crime and incarceration at the same time," said Ronal S
  
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• Steelers' Quarterback Gives K-9 Grant to Kansas Police Department

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  Today, Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl Quarterback and Findlay, OH native, Ben Roethlisberger, announced the fourth grant of the 2015-16 season from the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at The Giving Back Fund. The Foundation will be distributing a grant to the Shawnee (KS) Police Department just southwest of Kansas City where the Steelers will play the Chiefs on Sunday, October 25.With this grant, the Shawnee Police Department will expand from two to three K-9s in their unit, adding a dual purpose
  
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• NTOA Releases Updated SWAT Standard for Law Enforcement

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  The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA), a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to serving the law enforcement community, has announced the latest update to its SWAT Standard. This document establishes a basic set of standards for law enforcement (LE) agencies and serves as an efficient, core set of concepts and principles that improve standardization within the profession of tactical LE services.The NTOA's mission is to enhance the performance and professional status of LE pers
  
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• Kustom Signals Announces Vantage Body-Worn Video

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  Kustom Signals Inc. has announced that the company's new body-worn video product, Eyewitness Vantage, will be available for demonstration at IACP in Chicago in October (Booth 4042). Vantage supports HD (1080p, 720p60 fps, 720p30 fps) as well as SD video resolution, allowing agencies to select the video resolution/storage that best meets their needs. Vantage also offers excellent low light capability, including a configurable day/night mode and IR LEDs. Agencies can decide to record with sensitiv
  
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