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• WatchGuard Video Introduces Cloud-Based Evidence Sharing Application

  30-03-2016 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WatchGuard Video has announced the release of Cloud-Share, a new application within its evidence management software platform, Evidence Library 4 Web, that allows locally-stored digital evidence to be shared efficiently and securely without the cost of producing evidence DVDs or storing files in the cloud indefinitely. Cloud-Share is the most efficient way to share digital evidence,” stated Steve Coffman, president of WatchGuard Video. “Agencies who routinely dispatch evidence D
  
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• County Attorney Rules Minneapolis Officers Justified in Killing Jamar Clark

  30-03-2016 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last November of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday morning.Freeman disclosed his decision in a downtown Minneapolis news conference two weeks after bypassing the more common option of letting a grand jury make a charging determination, the Minnesota Star-Tribune reports.Freeman said the evidence supports the officers' account of the confrontation, in which they said C
  
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• Video: ISIS Publishes 39-page List of Targets, Including NJ Transit Officers

  30-03-2016 02:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: ISIS Publishes 39-page List of Targets, Including NJ Transit Officers The Islamic State released a list online, giving the names of its targets, including New Jersey law enforcement, reports FIOS News 1.The 39-page list includes full names and details of police officers from all over the state. Many of them are New Jersey Transit officers.The pages also include threatening statements in broken English, such as: "There is no system save; your protection fail; we are everywhere; Islamic Sta
  
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• Georgia Deputy Shot Serving Warrants, Suspect in Custody

  30-03-2016 02:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When he stepped out of his mother's shower and opened the bathroom door Sunday night, police say, James Adam Sherlin found four members of the Catoosa County (GA) Sheriff's Office and a state trooper staring at him, reports the Chattanooga Times/Free Press.He tried to retreat to the safety of the bathroom. But as he shut the door behind him, law enforcement barged forward, forcing themselves inside. Sheriff Gary Sisk said Deputy Keith Cantrell tackled Sherlin, and the two men wrestled in the sho
  
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• Officer Shortage Hits St. Louis City, County Police

  30-03-2016 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The St. Louis County and Metropolitan Police Departments are joining others around the country in handing out "Help Wanted" signs, as more officers are leaving the force and fewer recruits are signing up to replace them, reports CBS St. Louis.One reason — Ferguson."We kind of figured we were going to lose some people," says St. Louis County Police recruiting officer Kevin Minor. "And we did."Minor says the county department has lost about 110 of its 925 officers since Ferguson. It is curre
  
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• California Woman Pleads Guilty to Using Mannequins for Threats Against Deputies

  30-03-2016 01:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Authorities say a Southern California woman has pleaded guilty to hanging seven mannequins with the names of deputies and bull's-eye targets drawn on them, reports CBS News.CBS Los Angeles reported that San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies responded to calls of seven mannequins hanging in various locations in the Crestline and Cedarpines Park communities on Feb. 18, according to sheriff's spokesman Gil Flores.The San Bernardino Sun reports that Sarah Stewart pleaded guilty to resisting an ex
  
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• Georgia Officer Races Into Smoke-Filled Home, Puts Out Blaze

  30-03-2016 00:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police in Savannah say one of its officers raced into a smoke-filled home and used a fire extinguisher inside to douse the fast-moving flames, reports the Associated Press.Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police say Officer Matthew Jackson had arrived at work on Easter Sunday minutes before hearing dispatchers report a house fire directly across the street from his downtown police precinct.Police said Jackson immediately ran outside, where he saw the distraught 80-year-old homeowner. Jackson asked
  
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• NYPD Draws Up Response Plan for Coordinated Terror Attack

  30-03-2016 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The NYPD mapped out behind closed doors its plan for a coordinated attack on the Big Apple with multiple "active shooters," suicide bombers, and terrorists holding innocent people hostage Monday, reports the New York Post.Police brass practiced their response to four simultaneous assaults on iconic, heavily trafficked locations in the city during a daylong exercise at 1 Police Plaza.Commissioner Bill Bratton said the planning was needed because terrorists "would love to do it here.""What if we h
  
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