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• 'Black Lives Matter' protesters demand firing of police chief after fatal shooting - The Seattle Times

  25-02-2016 23:40 via
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  'Black Lives Matter' protesters demand firing of police chief after fatal shooting
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  Protesters who rallied outside the downtown Seattle Police Department on Thursday thread their way through traffic down Fifth Avenue as they protest the killing of Che Taylor by Seattle police. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times). The group that ...
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• Delaware State Police: We don't read emails, texts - The News Journal

  25-02-2016 23:09 via
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  Delaware State Police: We don't read emails, texts
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  After declining for months to disclose details about how it uses its nearly $1 million cellphone-tracking technology, Delaware State Police on Thursday said the portable device is used to locate criminal suspects and missing persons only and said it ...and more »
  

• Streamlight Announces 2015 Battery Recycling Results

  25-02-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Streamlight Inc., provider of high-performance flashlights, announced that the company and several of its U.S. distribution partners recycled 14,713 pounds of rechargeable batteries in 2015.Streamlight's corporate headquarters and participating distributors throughout the U.S. recycled Nickel Cadmium, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride, and Small Sealed Lead Acid batteries.The company and its distributors are partners of Call2Recycle Inc., the product stewardship organization responsible for the
  
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• Parabon Announces Snapshot Facial Reconstruction Service

  25-02-2016 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Parabon NanoLabs' new Snapshot Facial Reconstruction Service produces accurate antemortem composite images of deceased persons from skeletonized remains. The service combines, for the first time, two complementary methods of estimating appearance from skeletal evidence: DNA phenotyping and forensic facial reconstruction.Snapshot phenotyping algorithms are used to predict a decedent's appearance using DNA extracted from bone. Independently, a traditional facial reconstruction is performed wherein
  
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• EKA Expands and Establishes U.S. Facility

  25-02-2016 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Swedish-based EKA Knivar AB has announced plans to expand its global footprint and brand exposure by establishing an office and distribution center in the South Florida area. This new operation will allow EKA to better service, support, and supply the North and South American markets.EKA has been manufacturing innovative and quality products since 1882. There are many events worth mentioning in EKA's past. In 1968, the "Classic 6" was the first EKA knife to go into space. In 1990, a Royal Warran
  
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• Police ID suspect in shooting of senior citizens - WBAL Baltimore

  25-02-2016 22:26 via
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  Police ID suspect in shooting of senior citizens
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  ENEMY NUMBER ONE. DETAILS. POLICE IDENTIFIED CARL COOPER AS THEIR SURVEILLANCE PICTURES TO THE PUBLIC. WHEN IT COMES TO TRACKING DOWN COMMISSIONER KEVIN DAVIS SAYS RECORD. HIM. 1000. VANESSA: HE IS THE ...and more »
  

• Mission Manager Receives Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation for its Incident Management Software Solution

  25-02-2016 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mission Manager, Inc. has earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Developmental Testing & Evaluation (DT&E) designation for its incident management software–a cloud-based tool that has helped first responders save lives and property in approximately 7,000 missions since its inception.The DT&E designation was instituted by the DHS to encourage the development of “promising anti-terrorism technologies” by providing legal liability protections under the S
  
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• San Francisco Chief Says His Agency May be Willing to Test Smart Guns

  25-02-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Tuesday offered his department as a test bed for smart guns once the technology is more fully developed.Suhr, speaking at an event sponsored by smart-gun technology proponents, said he’d be willing to give tech-savvy officers the option of trying a weapon that can be fired only by its authenticated owner.“Officer safety is huge, so you wouldn’t want to compel that upon officers,” Suhr said. “But we have so many offic
  
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• New Jersey Supreme Court Reverses Parole of Cop Killer

  25-02-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision ordering the parole of a man convicted — along with longtime fugitive Joanne Chesimard — in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.Sundiata Acoli has been serving a life sentence for his role in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that ended in the death of Trooper Werner Foerster.An appeals court in 2014 found Acoli was wrongly denied parole and ordered his release, but the state Parole B
  
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• Activists in Seattle Slam Police for Killing Armed, Violent Felon

  25-02-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Civil rights leaders in Seattle are condemning the fatal police shooting of a black man, who was a convicted felon, last Sunday and said Tuesday they have hired a law firm to investigate.Seattle-King County NAACP President Gerald Hankerson disputed the police account of the shooting that killed Che Taylor, 47. Hankerson said Taylor was trying to comply with police orders when he was shot, the Associated Press reports.Taylor, who also went by the name Marvin Hunter, was a violent felon legally pr
  
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• Video: 2 Ohio Men Arrested After Threatening to Commit Random Shootings in Streaming Video

  25-02-2016 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 2 Ohio Men Arrested After Threatening to Commit Random Shootings in Streaming VideoColumbus, OH, police say two men wanted attention on social media, and they posted shooting threats to do just that.Investigators say 20-year-old Yusuf Suliman Conteh and 20-year-old Damon Andew Rosemond are in the Franklin County Jail on weapons charges. Police say the pair got on Periscope, a social media app that lets people broadcast events live, saying if they got 100 viewers they would take an AR-15 p
  
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• Omaha Police, Fire Train to Create Rescue Task Force for Mass Casualty Incidents

  25-02-2016 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Omaha firefighters are training in body armor so they can enter crime scenes with police when they’re needed to save lives.For the first time, Omaha’s police and fire departments have teamed up to form a new “rescue task force” to jointly respond in the event of a mass shooting or other situation where multiple causalities are likely.The training started in January and runs through the end of March. Nearly every police officer and firefighter will complete the training, w
  
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• Virginia Considers Bill to Withhold All Officers’ Names

  25-02-2016 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It started with a reporter’s attempt to learn whether problem police officers were moving from department to department. It resulted in legislation that is again bringing national scrutiny to the Virginia General Assembly: a bill that could keep all Virginia police officers’ names secret.In a climate where the actions of police nationwide are being watched as never before, supporters say the bill is needed to keep officers safe from people who may harass or harm them. But the effort
  
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• Video: San Jose PD Struggling to Fill Ranks

  25-02-2016 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: San Jose PD Struggling to Fill RanksLuring applicants to the San Jose (CA) Police Department is becoming an increasing challenge, especially with roughly 50 police agencies around the South Bay that are also hiring.The current San Jose police academy started on Friday and only has seven recruits, NBC Bay Area reports. Officials have been working on trying to bolster San Jose's understaffed police force and are now ramping up efforts to attract more recruits."Our priority right now is recr
  
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• Retired Chicago Lieutenant Says Chief Needs to Bring Back Special Gang Units

  25-02-2016 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week, a 25-year-old California woman named Aaren O'Connor was shot in the head and killed while sitting in her car on Chicago's 21st Street in broad daylight. Then, this past weekend, 32 people were shot in Chicago, including a 3-year-old. Where is the outrage? When is enough going to be enough?With a victim list growing by the day, it's time to realize we are in a war. Gangs are spreading fear and violence at will. The shootings are no longer a midnight-to-5-a.m. occurr
  
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• Colorado Deputies Shot Wednesday in Eviction Action Identified

  25-02-2016 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    The Park County Sheriff's deputy slid into the Cutthroat Cafe in Bailey, CO, at 7 a.m. Wednesday, just as he did many mornings, to grab a bite before heading to work.In this loosely woven mountain community of fewer than 10,000 people, the Cutthroat Cafe is one of those institutions that holds the tapestry together. And few threads ran through the community's fabric more than Cpl. Nate Carrigan's.A 13-year veteran of the Park County sheriff's department, Carrigan also was an assistant coa
  
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• Alabama Robbery Suspect Kills Self at End of Vehicle Pursuit

  25-02-2016 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Auburn, AL, police says they responded to the armed robbery of a business around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday.A vehicle that's description was given to officers as being driven by the suspect was seen leaving the area. A chase began after the suspect refused to stop.Chief Paul Register, who was on scene with Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones and other law enforcement officials, said the suspect fired shots at law enforcement, and law enforcement fired back.The pursuit ended at the intersection of G
  
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