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• Joplin Police Solve Two Hit-and-Run Cases with Vigilant Solutions LPR Data

  13-02-2016 02:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Joplin Police Department in Missouri solved two recent hit-and-run cases with the assistance of license plate reader (LPR) data from Vigilant Solutions.Officer Brian Wenberg explains, "I was assigned a hit‐and‐run case in which the victim was walking out of a convenience store and witnessed an elderly male back out of a parking space next to his vehicle, striking his vehicle and leaving the scene. In his statement he noticed that the suspect was not wearing shoes when he left the
  
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• RevMedx XSTAT: Direct Injection

  13-02-2016 01:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Every day on duty you're walking into harm's way, and anything could happen. What if you sustain an injury so severe that you're in danger of bleeding out and a standard tourniquet won't help? Now there is a product designed to treat such a wound and stop excessive bleeding in seconds. And it's been cleared for law enforcement use.RevMedx developed XSTAT in conjunction with U.S. Military Special Forces to address the problem of junctional hemorrhage. That's bleeding where a limb meets the body a
  
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• Deputy Not Allowed to Bring Duty Weapon Into Atlanta Theater

  13-02-2016 01:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A local sheriff's deputy escorting a group of fifth-grade students on a field trip to the Fox Theater in Atlanta said he was told to stand outside because he was carrying his service weapon, reports WSB-TV.Monday, Sergeant Jack Gilroy was assigned to escort 60 fifth-grade students and their teachers from Stark Elementary School to the Fox Theater for a field trip.Butts County Sheriff Gary Long said it's standard procedure for an on-duty deputy to escort kids on all sporting events and field trip
  
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• Son: Gunman Who Killed Maryland Deputies Violent, Abusive to Family

  13-02-2016 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before he fired a shot at a Maryland sheriff's deputy, sending bystanders fleeing from a suburban sandwich shop, a drifter had a history of harming, stalking and scaring those closest to him, according to the man's estranged son, reports the Associated Press.David Brian Evans, 68, shot one Harford County sheriff's deputy in the head Wednesday after the officer approached him inside a Panera Bread in Abingdon following a concerned phone call to the department from his ex-wife. Evans then fled the
  
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• Video: Minnesota K-9 Stabbed, Suspect Shot and Killed

  13-02-2016 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Minnesota K-9 Stabbed, Suspect Shot and KilledPolice in Roseville, MN, shot and killed a man they found hiding in a closet after he stabbed a police dog Wednesday night. Roseville police said the K-9, named Otis, was taken to the University of Minnesota for treatment and is now at home with his handler, reports KMSP.Roseville Police Chief Rick Mathwig said officers responded to an apartment building at about 10 p.m. Wednesday after neighbors heard pounding coming from a 52-year-old man's
  
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• Video: DOJ Sues Ferguson After Council Votes to Revise Consent Decree

  13-02-2016 00:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: DOJ Sues Ferguson After Council Votes to Revise Consent DecreeThe U.S. Department of Justice accused Ferguson of numerous constitutional violations in a 56-page lawsuit filed Wednesday, saying that the City Council had in fact rejected a proposed agreement the night before — despite Ferguson officials repeated claims to the contrary, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.At a meeting on Tuesday, the Ferguson City Council approved a revised version of a consent decree it had worked out
  
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• Father, Son Cyclists Arrested After Allegedly Beating Officer

  13-02-2016 00:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A father and son were arrested after they allegedly beat a police officer in Huntington Beach, CA, who had attempted to stop one of them Tuesday night, authorities said, reports KTLA.The incident began when an unidentified patrol officer in his patrol vehicle stopped a male bicyclist for a violation around 11:20 p.m., according to a Wednesday news release from the Huntington Beach Police Department.As the 17-year veteran officer contacted the cyclist, his father came up behind the officer and hi
  
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• Video: Machete-Wielding Man Injures 4 in Ohio Restaurant Attack

  13-02-2016 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Machete-Wielding Man Injures 4 in Ohio Restaurant Attack Frantic 911 calls captured the moment a machete-wielding man injured four people in an attack at an Ohio restaurant before he was shot dead by police Thursday, reports ABC.The man's attack was first reported at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus around 6 p.m., the Columbus Police Department said today. The man allegedly walked into the restaurant, had a conversation with an employee and left, before returning about 30 minu
  
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