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• Video: Oklahoma City Removes Body Cameras from Officers After Policy Dispute with Union

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  VIDEO: Oklahoma City Removes Body Cameras from Officers After Policy Dispute with UnionThe Oklahoma City Police Department has been forced to temporarily end its body-worn camera program because of a dispute between the local Fraternal Order of Police and the chief over policy.An arbitrator sided with the union that a portion of the department's body camera policy violated the contract between the city and the union."The heart of the issue is they didn’t negotiate the policy to start
  
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• More Details Revealed on Police Response to Orlando Club Shooter

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  Music blared and more than 300 people danced and milled about Pulse nightclub early Sunday as Orlando police officer Adam Gruler, who was working a security detail, searched the area for a teenager who had gotten into the club with a fake ID.He couldn't find the kid, so he headed back to the club's parking lot.That's when the shots rang out.It was just after 2 a.m. Sunday. Gruler ran toward the entrance after hearing the shots.He was met by gunman Omar Mateen. Armed with a .223 caliber semiautom
  
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• Medical Examiner Intended to Rule Freddie Gray Death an Accident, Officer Goodson Trial Reveals

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  Evidence disclosed for the first time Wednesday in the trial of Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., the van driver charged with second-degree murder in the death of Freddie Gray, suggests that the doctor performing Gray's autopsy at one point intended to rule his death an accident.Assistant medical examiner Dr. Carol Allan ultimately ruled the death a homicide. She has stood by that ruling during Goodson's trial, testifying that she never felt Gray's death was an accident."The word 'accid
  
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• Man Gets 19 to Life for Arson Murder of NYPD Officer

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  A Brooklyn teenager was sentenced on Tuesday to 19 years to life in prison for having set fire to a mattress in a hallway of his apartment building, resulting in the death of a police officer who responded to the blaze.The young man, Marcell Dockery, sat still and silent in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn as Justice Danny K. Chun issued the sentence after scolding him for having killed the officer, Dennis Guerra, and having gravely injured his partner, Officer Rosa Rodriguez, the New York Times
  
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• DOJ Report Says Distrust of Police Causing Rise in Crime Rate

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  More people were murdered in large U.S. cities last year than in 2014 — the first substantial increase in homicides in a quarter-century, after years of improving safety on American streets — and criminologists still are not sure why. There has been a fierce debate about the causes of the violence, but one possible explanation has not received enough public attention so far, according to the the author of a report published Wednesday by the Justice
  
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• Baltimore Officials, Verizon Search for Reason 911 System Failed Tuesday

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  Baltimore emergency management officials scrambled to figure out how to notify the public that the city's 911 system was out of service Tuesday night, according to internal emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun.City officials quickly decided to use the 311 call center as an alternative but debated for at least a half hour how to let the public know about the problems, according to emails forwarded to a reporter by Robert Maloney, director of the office.At a news conference, Police Commissioner Ke
  
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