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• New Beretta Pico Training Pistol Bluegun Available from Ring's Manufacturing

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  The Beretta Pico Bluegun training pistol replica from Ring's Manufacturing is molded from solid blue polyurethane to differentiate it from a live weapon.Blueguns' Beretta Pico training pistol is a 1:1 exact replica of the original Beretta, allowing officers to train in safe realistic tactical scenarios without the need to use their duty firearms. All Blueguns are 100% manufactured in the USA. 
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• Video: Off-Duty Atlanta Officer and Pet Dog Arrest Burglary Suspects

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  VIDEO: Off-Duty Atlanta Officer and Pet Dog Arrest Burglary Suspects An off-duty Atlanta officer and his pet dog were walking down the street of their East Point, GA, neighborhood when they caught two suspected robbers red-handed.Alan Gruen, a sergeant with the Atlanta Police Department, noticed something was off when he looked out his window Monday. He grabbed his dog "Mr. Boris," grabbed his radio and took a walk."The two young kids came out of the house carrying a computer monitor and a tool
  
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• Video: Minneapolis Political Leaders Ask Anti-Police Protesters to Voluntarily Leave Precinct

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  VIDEO: Minneapolis Political Leaders Ask Anti-Police Protesters to Voluntarily Leave Precinct Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) are calling for protesters of Jamar Clark's shooting to leave the 4th Precinct, saying it is now a safety risk. Mayor Hodges said police officers are getting daily threats and the area has become a hazard for the public.The mayor said there is no deadline to remove the occupation of the 4th Precinct -- that they are asking people to leave volu
  
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• Video: Atlanta Police Fatally Shoot Suspect in Downtown Gun Battle

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  VIDEO: Atlanta Police Fatally Shoot Suspect in Downtown Gun Battle Atlanta Police say one person died after an officer-involved shooting in downtown Monday night.The incident happened on Ted Turner Drive near Baker Street just before 8 p.m. outside the Aloft hotel.Atlanta police said that officers saw a vehicle driving the wrong way on Ted Turner Drive. As officers made a U-turn to make a traffic stop, the wrong-way vehicle was involved with a crash at Ted Turner and Ivan Allen Blvd.Police said
  
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• Video: 5-Year-Old Helps Turn Rescue Dog into Indiana Agency's Tracking K-9

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  VIDEO: 5-Year-Old Helps Turn Rescue Dog into Indiana Agency's Tracking K-9 The Ankeny (IN) Police Department will soon be deploying a new tracking K-9 thanks, in part, to the efforts of a 5-year-old boyBosco is a rescue dog from a shelter in Syracuse, IN, where he was picked up as a stray puppy. Officials say Bosco was brought to Ankeny after the Ankeny Police Department launched a crowdfunding campaign to help raise money for a new K-9 unit. Tristan’s Troops, led by Tristan Somm
  
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• Experts Praise Police Tactical Response to Planned Parenthood Shooting

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  Mass shootings typically last no more than about seven minutes, but a gunman continued firing on police and others for five hours in Friday's attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.Experts say the lengthy gun battle partly reflected the host of unusual challenges that officers faced from a suspect who was holed up in a building that was engineered to protect occupants from outside danger.Colorado Springs police initially had trouble locating the suspect, emerge
  
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• Ohio FOP Asks NFL to Allow Off-Duty and Retired Officers to Carry at Games

  01-12-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, where a suicide squad targeted a major soccer match, police unions are asking the NFL to reconsider its policy of barring off-duty and retired police officers from carrying guns inside stadiums.The Fraternal Order of Police Ohio sent a letter to the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals organizations last week asking them to rescind the restrictions on carrying firearms inside their stadiums."We live in an increasingly dangerous world and w
  
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• Chicago Creates Police Accountability Task Force

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  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced the creation of a police accountability task force. The announcement came a week after Officer Jason Van Dyke of the Chicago Police Department was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Laquan McDonald."The shooting of Laquan McDonald requires more than just words," Emanuel said in a statement. "It requires that we act; that we take more concrete steps to prevent such abuses in the future, secure the safety and the rights of all Chicago
  
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• Funding Pulled From Los Angeles Multi-Jurisdictional Radio System

  01-12-2015 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  An ambitious plan to connect all of Los Angeles County's fire and police agencies on a single communications system has hit another potential setback with the loss of $11 million in federal grant funding administered by the city of Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times.County officials and the head of the regional agency overseeing the project say the funding loss will further delay the creation of a multi-jurisdictional radio system for emergency responders, which they had hoped to have up
  
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• City wavering on keeping video secret in another fatal Chicago police shooting - Chicago Tribune

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  City wavering on keeping video secret in another fatal Chicago police shooting
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  Ronald Johnson, 25, was shot to death by a police officer who was responding to a call of shots fired near the 5300 block of South Martin Luther King Drive in the Washington Park neighborhood on Oct. 12, 2014. Johnson's mother, Dorothy Holmes, has been ...
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• Chicago Chief Fired in Wake of McDonald Shooting Protests

  01-12-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced he has dismissed Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, citing a lack of public trust in the police leadership in the wake of the high-profile shooting that eventually led to a white officer being charged with first-degree murder in the death of a black teen shot 16 times in a Southwest Side street last year.Emanuel said he and McCarthy began discussing the future of the police department on Sunday. "This morning, I formally aske
  
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• Detroit Police Officers to Get 4% Pay Raises

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  City officials announced Monday a plan to boost salaries by 4% for sworn Detroit police officers, increase starting pay, and extend labor contracts for the department's three unions, reports the Detroit Free Press.Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief James Craig held a news conference this morning to make the announcement, which they hope will help efforts to recruit and retain officers.The affected 2,224 officers are those represented by the Detroit Police Officers Association, the Detroit Police
  
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