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• Justices Divided Over N.J. Police Officer's First Amendment Case

  21-01-2016 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most everyone at the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed that the First Amendment protects a public employee in a non-political job from being fired or demoted for supporting a political candidate.But in a case alternatively described as "bizarre" and more "like a law school hypothetical," the question was what happens when the boss retaliates against an employee on the mistaken belief that the employee has asserted such support, reports the Washington Post.By the end of the hour-long argument, it s
  
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• Illinois Correctional Officer Dies in Prisoner Transport Van Crash

  21-01-2016 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The driver of a Marion County (IL) Sheriff's Department transport van was killed Wednesday morning in a weather-related accident with a semi on Interstate 57 at mile post 84 south of Mt. Vernon, reports WXEF radio.State Police identify the victim as 22-year-old Adam Conrad of Sandoval. Conrad was transported to a local hospital where he died.A 17-year-old male being transported in the van received incapacitating injuries. He was transported to a local hospital and later transferred to a regional
  
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• The Myth of Wanton Police Shootings Collapses under the Weight of Facts

  21-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a project titled “The Counted,” British newspaper the Guardian is tracking killings by police in the United States and has compiled a comprehensive list for the year 2015. The tracker was motivated by much-discussed but poorly founded concern about excessive use of police force particularly against blacks.In December, police killed 92 people — 21 blacks, 40 whites, 17 Hispanics/Latinos, five Asians/Pacific Islanders, and nine of unknown race. Fourteen were unarmed, incl
  
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• Texas Officers Searching for Man Suspected of Killing Constable's K-9

  21-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Smith County, TX, law enforcement officers are concentrating their focus on three counties as they search for a man wanted in the fatal shooting of a deputy K-9 constable.Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said Wednesday that thanks to tips from the community, officers have been able to focus on Smith, Wood and Van Zandt counties as they search for Michael Koch, who is suspected of fatally shooting Ogar, a Belgian Malinois.Ogar was shot Tuesday when his handler, Deputy Constable Kevin Petty,
  
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• Man Named in Anonymous Cop Shooting Tip Turns Himself In: Sources

  21-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A man who an anonymous tipster claimed had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and was planning to shoot police officers in New York and Philadelphia has turned himself in to police, law enforcement sources told NBC 4 New York. The man turned himself in at a Bronx police precinct Wednesday afternoon and was questioned by detectives, sources said. He was not charged with any crime, but was being held Thursday for allegedly violating his parole. The NYPD had issued an alert to officers o
  
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• Judge Rejects Prosecutor's Attempt to Delay Trials of 3 Officers in Freddie Gray Case

  21-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The next trial of a Baltimore police officer in the death of Freddie Gray could begin as early as next month after a judge on Wednesday rejected a request from prosecutors that could have tied up the cases in the state appeals court indefinitely.Judge Barry G. Williams questioned prosecutors' motives for asking him last week to compel Officer William G. Porter to testify against all five of his fellow officers who are facing trial. Until then, they had said Porter was a witness against only two
  
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• Georgia Grand Jury Indicts Officer for Murder in Shooting of Unarmed, Naked Man

  21-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Atlanta area grand jury on Thursday indicted a DeKalb County police officer who fatally shot an unarmed naked man on charges including felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of oath of office.The decision came after DeKalb County prosecutors presented their case against, who fatally shot Anthony Hill on March 9 while responding to a call of a man behaving erratically outside a suburban Atlanta apartment complex.Hill's family in November filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the DeKa
  
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• SHOT Show 2016: Vievu, Safariland Introduce Technology for Activating Body Camera when Officer Draws Weapon

  21-01-2016 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the SHOT Show this week body-worn camera maker Vievu and its parent company Safariland showed auto-activation technology for triggering a recording on a body-worn camera once a weapon is drawn from an officer’s Safariland 7TS series duty holster or once an item of equipment is removed from an officer’s Safariland ALERT Belt.The Safariland 7TS series holster with Camera Activation System (CAS) securely activates a VIEVU body worn camera as an officer removes his or her weapon from
  
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